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Lead Automation Engineer
<div><strong>Odaseva</strong> provides enterprise data management and security solutions that help organizations exercise sovereignty over their critical data.</div>
<div>Companies representing 10% of global market capitalization trust Odaseva, including Schneider Electric, Volkswagen and Robert Half.</div>
<div>Its Excalibur Data Platform enables customers to protect, secure, move, and use data and code independently of application vendors.</div>
<div>The platform supports complex and high-volume use cases, including backup, archiving, zero-copy, BCDR & High Availability, data federation, and semantic AI orchestration.</div>
<div>Customer-controlled end-to-end encryption raises the bar for enterprise security.</div>
<div>With 11 patents, <strong>Odaseva</strong> manages 50 trillion records and supports 100 million users. </div><br><strong>About The Role</strong><br><p>We are looking for a <strong>Lead Automation Engineer</strong> to drive the automation strategy across our Quality Engineering organization.</p>
<p>This is a hands-on technical leadership role:</p>
<p>you will architect and evolve reactive test automation frameworks, own API and UI test coverage, embed automation deeply into CI/CD, and bring AI-driven approaches into everyday QE practice.</p>
<p>You will also act as a backup to the QA Manager, stepping in on team coordination, planning, and stakeholder reporting when needed.</p>
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<p> </p><br><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong><br><h3>Automation Strategy & Framework Ownership</h3>
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<p>Design, build, and maintain reactive, scalable test automation frameworks from the ground up</p>
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<p>Define automation standards, coding conventions, and best practices across the QE team</p>
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<p>Continuously evaluate and evolve the toolchain to keep pace with product and team growth</p>
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<h3>Technical Execution</h3>
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<p>Lead UI test automation using Playwright, including page object patterns, parallelization, and cross-browser strategy</p>
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<p>Own API test automation and using Postman and Pactum JS (collections, environments, automated test scripts, monitors)</p>
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<p>Integrate automated test suites deeply into CI/CD pipelines, optimizing for speed, reliability, and actionable failure reporting</p>
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<p>Champion a "shift-left" approach, embedding automation earlier in the development lifecycle</p>
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<h3>AI-Driven Quality Engineering</h3>
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<p>Identify and implement practical AI applications within QE workflows: test generation, self-healing tests, intelligent triage of flaky tests, coverage gap analysis, and reporting automation</p>
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<p>Stay current on AI-assisted testing tools and evaluate their fit for the team's stack and maturity level</p>
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<h3>Leadership & Team Support</h3>
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<p>Mentor QE engineers on automation best practices, framework usage, and debugging</p>
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<p>Act as backup to the QA Manager: covering team check-ins, sprint planning, release quality gates, and stakeholder updates in their absence</p>
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<p>Partner with engineering, product, and release management to align automation coverage with release priorities</p>
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<h3>Reporting & Continuous Improvement</h3>
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<p>Track and report automation coverage, execution hea