Automation Test Manager
About the job
About the Automation Test Manager role
The Automation Test Manager will lead a team of automation engineers across regression and performance testing while driving quality assurance strategies, standards, and continuous improvement initiatives. The role involves developing comprehensive test plans, ensuring test coverage, managing quality metrics and defect lifecycles, and aligning testing practices with business, regulatory, and governance requirements. The manager will collaborate with Business Analysts, Project Managers, developers, and product teams to improve testing efficiency, reduce delivery cycle times, and strengthen product quality. The role also includes mentoring the team, building testing capabilities, and supporting Agile and DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage group of 10 automation engineers from both regression and performance tracks
- Develop and implement quality assurance strategies, frameworks, and standards across software development projects
- Design and execute comprehensive test plans, including functional, regression, performance, and API testing
- Ensure compliance with industry standards, regulatory requirements, and internal governance policies
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Project Managers, developers and product managers to define acceptance criteria and ensure test coverage
- Identify opportunities for process optimization and automation within the testing lifecycle
- Lead initiatives to improve testing efficiency, reduce cycle times, and enhance product quality
- Support agile software development practices and contribute to sprint planning, retrospectives, and backlog grooming
- Work closely with cross-functional teams including software engineers, business analysts, and project managers to align quality goals with business needs
- Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure shared understanding of quality objectives
Requrements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in software testing, quality assurance, or quality engineering
- Proficiency in test automation tools for regression and performance (e.g., Tricentis TOSCA, NeoLoad)
- Strong understanding of software development methodologies including Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD
- Experience with configuration tracking, process validation, and risk compliance
- Familiarity with performance management, business needs analysis, and strategy planning
- Demonstrated experience in test planning and estimation, quality metrics governance, and defect lifecycle management
- Experience in team mentoring, capability building, and quality culture transformation
- Familiarity with AI-assisted testing or productivity tooling is an advantage
