Senior Test Automation Lead

Summary

Join Encora as a Test Automation Tech Lead in Brazil and contribute significantly to product quality validation, test automation, and continuous delivery. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, evaluate necessary tools, and promote process improvements. Shape standards and best practices while providing expert guidance. This role is fundamental in driving initiatives, plans, and actions to guide the team. Work from home in a full-time capacity. You will be responsible for building and improving the quality assurance process, understanding product and business needs, and planning and developing manual and automated tests.

Requirements

• Proven experience Leading and Mentoring a team
• Proficiency with test automation frameworks and tools such as Playwright (with TS), Pytest, FastAPI
• Experience with CI/CD and pipelines
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle and Agile methodologies
• Familiarity with PostgreeSQL, MySQL, Javascript, Typescript and Python
• Knowledge of creating scripts using automated testing tools
• Experience with Jira, Git, Notion, Confluence

Responsibilities

• Guide the client and the testing team in building and improving the quality assurance process, also supporting the development team in the testing process, guidelines and best practices
• Seek to fully understand the product and business needs and discuss information needs with the product area
• Apply your knowledge and experience in planning and developing manual and automated tests (including unit tests, integration tests, GUI tests, acceptance tests, performance tests, etc.), and also in defining and deploying performance testing tools
• Develop and implement ways to facilitate the team's work, automating test and deployment routines
• Create a strong connection with people from different teams (quality, development and product) in order to facilitate communication and alignment
• Search for bugs in the software, aiming to improve test scenarios and test coverage to identify problems and improve product quality
• Plan and build test infrastructure aligned with CI/CD objectives using local or virtual (cloud) machines, ensuring that the system and information are secure, and that applicable people have appropriate access
• Seek continuous improvements in quality processes, enhancing and influencing the use of best practices in the software development life cycle

Benefits

Work from home