QA Automation Lead (Warsaw office) (вакансія неактивна)

Position Overview

We’re looking for a QA Automation Lead to own and drive the day-to-day quality engineering function for our platform. You’ll lead a team of QA engineers, define testing standards within your squad, and take hands-on responsibility for building and maintaining automation frameworks. This role is grounded in execution — you own the test coverage, lead the automation effort, and are accountable for the quality of releases within your domain.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated test frameworks covering UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Lead a small team of QA engineers, providing hands-on guidance, code reviews, and day-to-day direction.
• Take responsibility for test coverage across assigned product areas, ensuring regressions are caught before they reach production.
• Integrate and maintain automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines, owning the feedback loop for your team.
• Define and enforce testing standards, processes, and documentation within the squad.
• Collaborate with developers and product managers to review requirements and translate them into thorough test plans.
• Own defect triage and test failure analysis, coordinating directly with engineers to drive resolution.
• Continuously improve test reliability, speed, and coverage, proactively flagging risks to engineering leads.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of QA automation experience, with demonstrated ownership of a test automation codebase.
• Solid hands-on experience with frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript for writing and maintaining test scripts.
• Proven experience owning CI/CD-integrated test pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar).
• Solid API testing experience using tools such as Postman or Supertest.
• Familiarity with RESTful API and WebSocket testing for real-time features.
• Good understanding of Git workflows and agile delivery practices.

Soft Skills

• Strong communicator who can represent quality concerns clearly to developers and product stakeholders.
• Ownership mentality — takes accountability for test outcomes and drives issues through to resolution.
• Organised and methodical, able to manage workload across multiple features and release cycles.
• Collaborative team lead who enjoys growing junior engineers and raising the quality bar.