Lead Quality Test Automation Engineer

Lead Quality Test Automation Engineer
Location: Boston MA (Hybrid Onsite)
Duration: 6 Months Contract-to-Hire

STAFFXPERT LLC is seeking a Lead Quality Test Automation Engineer on behalf of our client in Boston MA. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled Quality Engineering professional to support mission-critical Trading Technology platforms within a fast-paced asset management environment. The ideal candidate will bring a strong combination of hands-on automation expertise and technical leadership contributing both strategically and technically across multiple initiatives.

• Define and drive Quality Engineering strategy across applications and enterprise initiatives
• Lead end-to-end test planning design automation and execution efforts
• Build enhance and maintain scalable automation frameworks and testing best practices
• Mentor and guide QE engineers across multiple teams and workstreams
• Collaborate closely with business product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality solutions
• Establish and enforce quality gates testing standards and release readiness processes
• Drive CI/CD integration and continuous testing initiatives
• Troubleshoot performance scalability and stability issues across applications
• Evaluate and implement AI-assisted testing and automation solutions

• 8 years of experience in Quality Engineering or Software Testing
• Strong hands-on automation experience using Java and BDD/Gherkin frameworks
• Experience with Playwright for UI automation
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins
• Exposure to cloud platforms preferably AWS
• Strong software engineering and coding fundamentals
• Proven leadership experience mentoring and guiding QE teams
• Experience working with AI-assisted development or testing tools such as GitHub Copilot or Claude

• Experience within trading technology or asset management environments
• Exposure to OMS pre-trade or post-trade workflows
• Experience collaborating with distributed onshore/offshore teams

This is a hybrid onsite role based primarily in Boston MA.