Lead QA Automation Engineer at Inseego Corp
United States
$135k - $165k
<meta><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.38;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Position Overview:</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">As we continue modernizing and scaling our Subscribe SaaS platform, quality, reliability, and automated testing coverage are critical to supporting rapid feature delivery and platform stability. We are investing in expanding and strengthening our test automation capabilities to improve delivery confidence, execution predictability, and overall platform quality across complex enterprise workflows.</span></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">We are seeking a Lead Test Automation Engineer who will serve as both a hands-on technical contributor and a leader of a small automation engineering team. This player-coach role is ideal for an experienced automation engineer who thrives building scalable automation frameworks, mentoring engineers, and driving quality improvements across UI, API, and platform testing layers. </span><b><strong style="white-space:pre-wrap;">This is a remote role requiring US Citizenship, with limited occasional travel.</strong></b></p><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Responsibilities:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Design, develop, maintain, and improve automated testing solutions supporting complex enterprise SaaS workflows and platform services.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Lead the design, evolution, and scalability of UI and API automation frameworks, ensuring high coverage, reliability, and maintainability.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Own and continuously improve existing Page Object Model (POM) test automation frameworks.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Lead and expand API test automation using RestAssured or equivalent technologies aligned with platform growth.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Maintain and enhance test reporting and visibility using Allure or similar reporting platforms to provide actionable quality insights.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Identify automation coverage gaps, execution reliability risks, and quality improvement opportunities common in enterprise-scale systems.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Partner closely with DevOps teams to ensure automation suites scale effectively and run reliably within GitLab CI/CD pipelines and cloud-based testing environments.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Provide technical leadership and direct management for a small team of automation engineers, including mentorship, performance guidance, and skill development.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Collaborate with QA leadership to ensure alignment between automated and manual testing strategies and overall product quality coverage.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Partner with Product Management and Engineering teams to understand business workflows, risk areas, and testing priorities.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Provide leadership with clear reporting on automation progress, trends, metrics, and quality improvement initiatives.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Recommend and introduce additional testing capabilities where appropriate, including performance, load, and reliability testing.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve automation efficiency, coverage expansion, and maintainability.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Ramp quickly and contribute meaningful automation improvements with minimal onboarding or oversight.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Promote adoption of modern test automation, continuous testing, and quality engineering best practices across engineering teams.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">What Success Looks Like</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Automation coverage expands across critical user workflows, APIs, and platform services, improving release confidence and quality visibility.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Automation frameworks remain scalable, maintainable, and aligned with platform architecture evolution.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Engineering and Product teams rely on automation metrics and reporting to make informed delivery decisions.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Automation suites execute reliably within CI/CD pipelines, reducing release risk and manual testing dependency.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Automation engineers are mentored, supported, and growing in technical capability and delivery effectiveness.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Quality engineering practices are consistently adopted across teams and integrated into development workflows.</span></li></ul><p style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;line-height:1.6;letter-spacing:0.25px;margin:4px 0px;padding:0px;"><b><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap;">Required Qualifications:</strong></b></p><ul data-pattern="discCircleSquare" data-depth="1" style="font-family:"Basel Grotesk",Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-weight:400;margin:8px 0px;line-height:1.6;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;list-style-type:disc;"><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">15+ years of overall software or quality engineering experience.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">8+ years of hands-on test automation experience, primarily using Java and Selenium or comparable frameworks.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong hands-on experience with Java-based automation development.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong experience implementing and maintaining API automation using RestAssured or equivalent frameworks.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Deep experience designing and maintaining Page Object Model (POM) automation frameworks.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience implementing automation reporting solutions such as Allure or comparable reporting platforms.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Proven experience supporting enterprise SaaS platforms with complex business workflows and UI-heavy application layers.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience working within CI/CD environments and automated testing pipelines.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Demonstrated experience operating independently and delivering high-impact automation improvements.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Prior experience leading or managing automation engineers in a collaborative, technical leadership capacity.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across Engineering, DevOps, QA, and Product teams.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Strong understanding of test environments, containerized testing, and cloud infrastructure including Docker, AWS, SSH, and related tooling.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience leveraging AI-assisted coding or development tools to improve automation productivity and maintainability.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience supporting or introducing performance, load, or reliability testing using tools such as JMeter, Gatling, k6, or similar is preferred.</span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Experience working in regulated, compliance-driven, or security-sensitive environments is preferred.</span></li></ul>
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