**Role & seniority: ** Lead/strategic Test Automation / QA Automation Lead (senior); leads strategy, architecture, mentorship, and cross-team coordination.

**Stack/tools: **

Test automation frameworks (custom-built/optimized)
CI/CD integration (continuous testing in pipelines)
Data/file validation: distributed databases; CSV, XML, JSON, flat files
Custom tooling (build/extend tools to close coverage gaps)
Top 3 responsibilities:
1. Define and lead E2E + functional testing automation strategy with stakeholders.
2. Design and optimize automation frameworks for reusability and low maintenance.
3. Integrate automated suites into CI/CD and ensure robust assertions/validations for data integrity.
Must-have skills:
- Strong test automation architecture and framework design
- Advanced assertions/validation across DBs and multiple file formats
- CI/CD pipeline integration for automated testing
- Cross-functional communication, escalation handling, and clear reporting
- Mentorship/peer review and quality-first engineering practices
Nice-to-haves:
- Experience creating/extending custom test tools to address systemic gaps
- Ownership of cross-team process automation to reduce manual effort
Location & work type: Not specified in the provided text.

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Strategic Automation Leadership: Define and lead the automation strategy for functional and E2E testing, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders to translate complex specifications into scalable automated solutions.

Stakeholder Communication: Client Facilitation, Escalation Handling, Cross-functional Collaboration, Clear & Concise Reporting.

Framework Architecture: Design, build, and optimize robust test automation frameworks from the ground up, ensuring high reusability and low maintenance.

Mentorship & Best Practices: Mentor QA analysts, conduct peer code reviews, and evangelize a quality-first engineering culture across the department.

Advanced Assertions & Validations: Architect complex automated assertions across distributed databases and various file types (e.g., CSV, XML, JSON, Flat Files) to ensure absolute data integrity.

CI/CD Integration: Seamlessly integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous testing, immediate feedback, and rapid deployment.

Tooling Innovation: Identify systemic gaps in the current tool implementation and proactively develop or extend custom tools to resolve them, ensuring comprehensive test coverage.

Cross-Team Process Automation: Work on ad hoc tasks/tools across other teams that may assist in the automation of their processes thus reducing manual work.

Senior Test Automation Analyst

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