Senior QA Automation Leader

At Codelitt we partner with ambitious companies to build digital products that solve real business problems. Our teams care deeply about product quality strong engineering and working closely with stakeholders to ship meaningful outcomes.

This is a remote position where you can work from anywhere in LATAM.

About the Role

Were looking for a Senior QA Automation Leader to join our team on a complex enterprise platform engagement with one of our partners. This role is focused on defining standardizing and driving the automation strategy for what it means for an environment to be QA-certified across a large distributed platform.

The customers platform is made up of dozens of services owned by many engineering teams. Integration-style and acceptance tests already exist in parts of the system but the current process is fragmented inconsistent and heavily dependent on manual coordination. The goal is to move toward a clear repeatable certification process where teams can understand what must pass what evidence is required and how automated test execution should validate a newly built environment.

This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can operate at the intersection of QA architecture test automation platform engineering engineering coordination and delivery reliability. Success here depends on being able to bring structure to ambiguity define a practical testing standard understand existing automation across multiple services and help teams converge around a shared certification bar.

Who You Are

• A senior QA automation leader test architect or quality engineering leader with experience defining testing standards for complex distributed systems.

• Experienced working with large platforms made up of many services teams dependencies and release paths.

• Comfortable understanding existing test automation identifying gaps and defining what good enough to certify means in a practical delivery environment.

• Strong with automated acceptance testing integration testing service-level validation test orchestration and CI/CD-based test execution.

• Able to work across Java Python Jenkins custom test harnesses APIs services and existing QA frameworks even when the current state is inconsistent or under-documented.

• Experienced turning fragmented QA practices into clear standards templates evidence requirements and repeatable certification workflows.

• Comfortable partnering with engineering teams QA teams infrastructure teams and leadership to define requirements and drive adoption.

• Pragmatic about automation: you know when to standardize when to adapt to legacy constraints and when to focus on the highest-risk gaps first.

• Able to lead without needing everything to be perfectly defined upfront.

• A strong communicator who can explain quality gates testing gaps risks tradeoffs and next steps to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What Youll Do

QA Certification Standard

• Define the written standard for what it means for an environment to be QA-certified.

• Create a clear pass/fail bar for environment certification across services integrations and platform-level workflows.

• Define what integration coverage means across a distributed service architecture.

• Create templates for required evidence test results service readiness coverage expectations and sign-off.

• Clarify terminology ownership and expectations so engineering QA and leadership teams are aligned.

Test Automation Strategy

• Assess the current automated acceptance and integration testing landscape across dozens of services.

• Identify which services already have sufficient automated coverage and which services have gaps.

• Understand existing test harnesses Jenkins orchestration service-level acceptance tests and team-specific testing approaches.

• Define how automated tests should be triggered monitored reported and used as certification evidence.

• Help design a path toward running acceptance and integration tests in a more centralized repeatable and reliable way.

• Work with engineering teams to determine how missing or legacy test automation should be addressed.

Cross-Service Integration Validation

• Define how test tenants test data and end-to-end flows should be exercised during certification.

• Ensure the certification process validates not only individual services but also meaningful cross-service behavior.

• Create or guide coverage matrix templates that show which services workflows tenants and integrations are tested.

• Help identify high-risk integration points and prioritize automation work accordingly.

• Partner with service teams to confirm dependencies expected behaviors failure modes and validation criteria.

Quality Leadership & Technical Coordination

• Serve as the technical owner for the QA certification standard.

• Work closely with QA engineering infrastructure and delivery stakeholders to drive agreement on the certification approach.

• Help teams understand what artifacts they need to provide and what evidence is required for sign-off.

• Lead technical discussions around testing gaps automation feasibility and certification risk.

• Support cross-team adoption of the standard without turning the process into unnecessary bureaucracy.

• Help create a practical path from fragmented testing practices to a unified certification program.

Delivery Reliability & Documentation

• Create clear documentation for QA certification workflows required artifacts evidence templates coverage expectations and escalation paths.

• Define how missed testing windows incomplete coverage or failed certification checks should be handled.

• Help build the foundation for compliance tracking across services and teams.

• Support leadership sign-off by making risks gaps and readiness visible.

• Contribute to a repeatable process that reduces manual coordination and gives stakeholders confidence in platform readiness.

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 years of experience in QA automation quality engineering test architecture SDET leadership or similar roles.

• Strong experience defining QA automation strategy for complex software platforms.

• Experience working with distributed systems microservices service-oriented architectures or large enterprise platforms.

• Hands-on experience with automated acceptance testing integration testing API testing and CI/CD test execution.

• Experience with Java and/or Python-based test automation environments.

• Experience with Jenkins or similar CI/CD orchestration tools.

• Experience working with custom test harnesses legacy test frameworks or mixed testing stacks.

• Experience creating test coverage matrices evidence templates quality gates and release certification criteria.

• Experience working across many engineering teams and aligning different groups around a shared standard.

• Experience with enterprise delivery platform certification SAP-adjacent delivery or large-scale environment validation is a plus.

• Experience leading QA transformation test standardization or automation maturity initiatives is a strong plus.

Soft Skills

• Strong ownership and ability to drive clarity in ambiguous environments.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Comfortable influencing teams without relying only on formal authority.

• Able to balance technical depth with practical delivery pressure.

• Strong systems thinking and ability to reason across many services and dependencies.

• Calm structured and pragmatic when dealing with fragmented processes.

• Comfortable working with engineering teams that have different levels of QA maturity.

• Able to identify risks early and communicate them clearly.

• Strong documentation habits and attention to operational detail.

• Bias toward repeatable usable processes over theoretical perfection.

Why This Role

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys bringing order to complex QA environments. You should be excited by the challenge of taking a fragmented manually coordinated certification process and turning it into a clear automated evidence-backed standard that many teams can follow.

If youre excited by QA architecture test automation strategy distributed systems validation and helping engineering teams ship with more confidence wed love to hear from you.