Alex James Digital · 20 hours ago
Senior Test Automation-Focused QA Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$100K/yr - $120K/yr
6+ years expAlex James Digital is a fast growth business seeking a Senior SDET (Software Development Engineer in Test) / Automation QA Lead to enhance their engineering excellence. The role involves leading the development and execution of automated test frameworks, collaborating with various teams to ensure quality and reliability during peak moments.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
James Haffner
Responsibilities
Architect, implement, and evolve robust, maintainable, scalable automation frameworks covering UI, API, integration, and end-to-end flows
Integrate automated tests into continuous integration and continuous delivery workflows; ensure test environments are reliable and representative; build tooling that helps developers and testers run tests locally and in pipelines
Create test plans and strategies; ensure sufficient automated test coverage; design and write automated test cases for new features; maintain & extend existing test suites
Partner with developers early in planning and design to ensure features are testable; contribute to code reviews, especially around quality, testability, and error handling; clarify acceptance criteria
Triage and analyze defects; perform root-cause analysis; feed insights back into the design & development process to avoid recurrence
Define and track quality metrics (e.g., test coverage, pass/fail rates, flakiness, test execution time, etc.); report status, help inform go/no-go decisions
Mentor and coach other QA resources or automation engineers; help raise standards in code, tests, documentation; share knowledge of best practices, tools, frameworks
Assist with production issue triage, maintain reliability during high traffic/sporting events; help with load, regression, and stability testing
Qualification
Required
Substantial experience (≈ 6-8+ years) in QA / Test Automation / SDET roles
Strong programming skills in one or more languages (e.g. JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java, etc.)
Experience building & maintaining test automation frameworks (UI, API, integration); familiar tools e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, REST-/GraphQL API test tools, etc
Deep familiarity with CI/CD pipelines; experience integrating automated tests into CI (e.g. GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Travis, CircleCI, etc.)
Good understanding of test environment management, mocking/stubbing, test data setup
Experience with version control (Git), build systems, code review
Excellent analytical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills
Strong communication and collaboration skills; ability and willingness to work cross-functionally
Experience working in fast-paced / high availability settings
Benefits
Comprehensive health benefits (medical, dental, vision)
Remote work
Budget for equipment
Flexible PTO / generous vacation & paid holidays
401(k) plan, etc.
Company
Alex James Digital
Alex James are a specialist digital recruitment agency.
2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase