Location : Phoenix, AZ

Mode of Work : Mostly remote; Required onsite for design/whiteboard sessions.

Interview : Virtual + onsite

Eligibility : Must be AZ-local and able to work for any U.S. employer (no sponsorship).

Job Description:

What You'll Do :

• Own the quality platform: Set strategy, architecture, and standards for automation-Java today, with pragmatic evolution to modern UI/API automation where it improves reliability.
• Embed quality early: Drive PR-level tests, contract/API checks, and CI/CD quality gates for rapid, trusted developer feedback.
• Apply AI where it counts: Use AI/LLM-assisted test generation, self-healing locators, flake triage, and test-impact analysis to reduce toil and raise signal.
• Simplify the SDLC: With DevOps, streamline pipelines, test data management, environment provisioning, and release guardrails for faster flow.
• Solve hard problems with architects: Tackle cross-cutting issues (auth, data, performance, flakiness) and retire tech debt with durable solutions.
• Build the right tests: Expand reliable web/UI, API, and integration coverage; harden environments and test data.
• Coach and elevate: Mentor QA engineers, review automation code, and set standards for readability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Measure what matters: Stand up live dashboards (coverage, pass/fail, flakiness, MTTR) to inform decisions and continuously raise the bar.
• Own root cause: Lead deep-dive debugging across test and prod, driving prevention-not just fixes.

Your Toolbox (What We Use & Value):

• Languages/Frameworks: Java, JUnit, Maven; BDD with Cucumber/Gherkin.
• Automation: Selenium WebDriver (today); informed experience with Playwright (Java/TypeScript) a plus.
• CI/CD & SCM: Jenkins, GitHub Actions; GitHub for collaboration.
• Observability & Metrics: Grafana (quality and performance dashboards).
• Backend/Platform context: Spring Boot/Spring Security; Oracle DB; FileNet/content systems.
• Scripting: PowerShell or similar for utilities.
• Quality practices: Testing pyramid, risk-based design, code reviews, and environment parity.

Where We're Headed (And Where You'll Lead):

• GitHub-native CI/CD: Standardize on GitHub pipelines for frequent, automated deployments-define branch strategy, environment promotions, and reusable workflows that make shipping safe by default.
• Reliable testing for high velocity: Build a strategy that scales with cadence-PR checks, contract/API tests, fast UI smoke suites, test-impact analysis, deterministic data & ephemeral envs, parallelization, and rigorous flake control.
• AI-assisted, data-driven quality: Apply LLM-assisted test generation/self-healing and enforce quality gates backed by live dashboards (coverage, flakiness, MTTR, DORA) to boost signal and confidence.
• Framework evolution (tool-agnostic): Evaluate and pilot modern UI/API automation options against clear criteria (reliability, speed, parity, maintainability, ROI) and recommend phased adoption that protects delivery.

What You Bring:

• 10+ years in QA/automation with 5+ years leading/architecting frameworks.
• Proven success embedding automated quality gates into CI/CD for high-velocity releases.
• Track record mentoring engineers and raising the bar on code quality and test design.
• Comfort collaborating with architects and senior engineers on systemic quality problems.

Nice-To-Have:

• Experience introducing AI tooling (e.g., Copilot, test-gen, self-healing) into real teams.
• Performance, security, or contract-testing exposure.

Skill Assessment:

Required Skills

• 3+ years in a technical leadership or lead automation engineer role. MUST have Leadership experience
• Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin or Cucumber
• JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Ruby experience
• Experience with Spring Framework

Preferred Skills

• Grafana experience
• Container Architecture: Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Maven
• AI experience
• Jira
• Confluence