Lead Software Development Test Engineer

Positively disrupting an industry that has not seen any innovation in over 50 years Tekion has challenged the paradigm with the first and fastest cloud-native automotive platform that includes the revolutionary Automotive Retail Cloud (ARC) for retailers Automotive Enterprise Cloud (AEC) for manufacturers and other large automotive enterprises and Automotive Partner Cloud (APC) for technology and industry partners. Tekion connects the entire spectrum of the automotive retail ecosystem through one seamless platform. The transformative platform uses cutting-edge technology big data machine learning and AI to seamlessly bring together OEMs retailers/dealers and consumers. With its highly configurable integration and greater customer engagement capabilities Tekion is enabling the best automotive retail experiences ever. Tekion employs close to 3000 people across North America Asia and Europe.

The Lead Software Development Test Engineer provides technical leadership for quality engineering initiatives across complex product areas driving test strategy automation maturity and release quality at scale. This role partners closely with Engineering Product DevOps and program stakeholders to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle and ensure Tekions products meet high standards for reliability performance and customer experience. The Lead Software Development Test Engineer is expected to influence testing practices across teams guide engineers on quality strategy and serve as a key escalation point for complex quality risks and release decisions.

• Lead end-to-end quality strategy for large product domains cross-functional initiatives and high-impact releases

• Design review and optimize test approaches for functional regression integration system end-to-end API and data validation testing

• Drive the development scalability and maintainability of automated test frameworks and reusable test assets

• Partner with Engineering and Product teams early in the development lifecycle to identify quality risks clarify requirements and improve testability

• Establish quality gates release readiness criteria and risk-based testing strategies to improve delivery confidence

• Oversee validation of complex workflows across web mobile backend services APIs and platform components as applicable

• Analyze defect trends escape patterns and test effectiveness metrics to identify systemic quality issues and recommend improvements

• Support root cause analysis for critical defects and production issues partnering with cross-functional teams on corrective and preventive actions

• Guide test environment strategy test data management and integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

• Mentor senior and junior test engineers providing technical direction on test design automation patterns debugging and quality best practices

• Influence engineering teams to adopt scalable quality engineering standards tools and processes

• Contribute to roadmap planning and estimation discussions by highlighting testing scope dependencies and quality risks

• Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for complex release and quality decisions

• Job Complexity: Leads highly complex quality engineering work spanning multiple systems teams or product domains. Requires balancing hands-on technical contributions with strategic quality leadership cross-team alignment and proactive risk management. Impacts release quality engineering efficiency and customer experience across broad areas of the platform.

• Required Supervision: Operates with a high degree of independence and technical judgment. Receives direction primarily on business priorities organizational goals and major initiatives while independently leading quality strategy execution planning and cross-functional coordination for assigned domains.

• Expertise: Recognized as a senior technical leader in software quality engineering test automation and release risk management. Demonstrates deep expertise in building scalable test strategies improving automation effectiveness and influencing engineering organizations toward quality-by-design practices. Brings strong systems thinking technical depth and leadership capability to complex quality challenges.

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or a related technical field

• 7 years of experience in software testing quality assurance or software development including substantial experience leading complex test initiatives and automation efforts

• Deep expertise in software development lifecycle (SDLC) software testing lifecycle (STLC) Agile methodologies and modern quality engineering practices

• Strong experience designing scalable test strategies across complex systems integrations and distributed architectures

• Advanced experience with automation tools and frameworks such as Selenium Cypress Playwright Appium REST Assured or similar

• Proficiency in one or more programming or scripting languages such as Java Python JavaScript or similar

• Strong experience with API database integration and end-to-end testing

• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines build tools and test execution in automated delivery environments

• Experience with defect tracking test management and quality reporting tools such as Jira TestRail Azure DevOps or similar

• Strong analytical communication collaboration and mentoring skills

• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction and quality practices across teams in a fast-paced environment

• Opportunity to work with some of the smartest minds to solve complex challenges at scale.

• Impactful role in shaping and securing a global cloud-native & AI driven platform.

• Innovative collaborative and fast-paced culture.

Effective 4 Aug 2026 Current Tekion Employees should apply via the Internal Job Board in Ashby

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