SDET Team Lead

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We are currently partnering with a global IT powerhouse that represents the connected world through innovative customer-centric experiences. As a USD 6 billion organization and one of the top 7 IT service providers globally our client empowers over 1200 global customersincluding several Fortune 500 companiesto Rise. With a massive network of 163000 professionals across 90 countries they are at the absolute forefront of digital transformation leveraging next-generation technologies such as 5G AI Blockchain and Quantum Computing.

This is your chance to thrive in a workplace recognized as one of the most sustainable corporations in the world. You will join an environment that values innovation and societal impact working on end-to-end digital transformation projects for global leaders. If you are a driven professional looking for global career opportunities and exposure to high-impact projects within an international network of expertise this is where you belong.

We are currently searching for a SDET Team Lead:

Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day activities for the Mexico-based SDET team ensuring alignment on local operational needs.
• Coordinate with distributed teams across different time zones to synchronize testing strategies and project goals.
• Analyze and architect technical test solutions for complex user stories ensuring coverage for integration points.
• Optimize and refactor existing automated regression suites to maximize reliability and eliminate flakiness.
• Refine and extend modular automation frameworks to ensure they remain scalable for the wider engineering team.
• Expand API automation coverage for microservices data integrity and cross-service communication.
• Perform deep-dive technical analysis to refactor automation code in alignment with evolving application architecture.
• Maintain automated performance testing as integrated components of the continuous delivery pipeline.
• Execute root cause analysis on complex defects providing detailed technical insights and reproduction scripts.
• Drive technical gap analysis to identify untested code paths and improve overall system testability.
• Partner with Dev and Product to ensure acceptance criteria are precise and technically sound.
• Own the technical scaling of automation solutions across multiple environments.
• Execute special technical projects such as upgrading test infrastructure or optimizing CI/CD workflows.

Requirements:

• 8 years of experience in Software Engineering and Test Automation with a proven track record of framework improvement.
• Proven leadership ability in managing local team operations and providing technical mentorship to improve coding standards.
• High proficiency in programming (Python Java TypeScript or C#) with a focus on clean scalable code.
• Deep understanding of modern architecture including microservices containerization (Docker) and cloud environments.
• Extensive experience with automation tools such as Playwright Selenium Appium Postman or RestAssured.
• Solid experience in performance engineering using tools like k6 JMeter or Locust.
• Advanced proficiency with CI/CD orchestration (Harness BitBucket or Jenkins) to optimize release cycles.
• Experience with cloud-based testing infrastructure like SauceLabs BrowserStack or AWS Device Farm.
• Expert technical communication skills to translate quality risks into actionable engineering tasks.

Languages

• Advanced Oral English.
• Advanced Spanish.

Note:

• Fully remote.

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Requirements:

Requirements:

• 8 years of experience in Software Engineering and Test Automation with a proven track record of framework improvement.
• Proven leadership ability in managing local team operations and providing technical mentorship to improve coding standards.
• High proficiency in programming (Python Java TypeScript or C#) with a focus on clean scalable code.
• Deep understanding of modern architecture including microservices containerization (Docker) and cloud environments.
• Extensive experience with automation tools such as Playwright Selenium Appium Postman or RestAssured.
• Solid experience in performance engineering using tools like k6 JMeter or Locust.
• Advanced proficiency with CI/CD orchestration (Harness BitBucket or Jenkins) to optimize release cycles.
• Experience with cloud-based testing infrastructure like SauceLabs BrowserStack or AWS Device Farm.
• Expert technical communication skills to translate quality risks into actionable engineering tasks.