Job summary:

Job description:

***Mostly remote; onsite only when needed  *** No visa candidates; candidate must be eligible to work for any employer *** Initial PO for 12 months; usually projects with this customer goes for 3+ years ***w2 or 1099 or c2c; must attend in person interview ****

Job Description:

The Impact

Lead the quality platform behind mission-critical software at ASRS. Partner directly with architects to fix today’s framework pain, modernize our stack, and hard-wire a true shift-left culture—while piloting AI- assisted testing to boost coverage, speed, and confidence.

What You’ll Do

• Own the quality platform: Set strategy, architecture, and standards for automation—Java today, with pragmatic evolution to modern UI/API automation where it improves reliability.
• Embed quality early: Drive PR-level tests, contract/API checks, and CI/CD quality gates for rapid, trusted developer feedback.
• Apply AI where it counts: Use AI/LLM-assisted test generation, self-healing locators, flake triage, and test-impact analysis to reduce toil and raise signal.
• Simplify the SDLC: With DevOps, streamline pipelines, test data management, environment provisioning, and release guardrails for faster flow.
• Solve hard problems with architects: Tackle cross-cutting issues (auth, data, performance, flakiness)  and retire tech debt with durable solutions.
• Build the right tests: Expand reliable web/UI, API, and integration coverage; harden environments and test data.
• Coach and elevate: Mentor QA engineers, review automation code, and set standards for readability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Measure what matters: Stand up live dashboards (coverage, pass/fail, flakiness, MTTR) to inform decisions and continuously raise the bar.
• Own root cause: Lead deep-dive debugging across test and prod, driving prevention—not just fixes.

Your Toolbox (What We Use & Value):

• Languages/Frameworks: Java, JUnit, Maven; BDD with Cucumber/Gherkin.
• Automation: Selenium WebDriver (today); informed experience with Playwright (Java/TypeScript) a plus.
• CI/CD & SCM: Jenkins, GitHub Actions; GitHub for collaboration.
• Observability & Metrics: Grafana (quality and performance dashboards).
• Backend/Platform context: Spring Boot/Spring Security; Oracle DB; FileNet/content systems.
• Scripting: PowerShell or similar for utilities.
• Quality practices: Testing pyramid, risk-based design, code reviews, and environment parity.

Where We’re Headed (And Where You’ll Lead):

• GitHub-native CI/CD: Standardize on GitHub pipelines for frequent, automated deployments— define branch strategy, environment promotions, and reusable workflows that make shipping safe by default.
• Reliable testing for high velocity: Build a strategy that scales with cadence—PR checks, contract/API tests, fast UI smoke suites, test-impact analysis, deterministic data & ephemeral envs, parallelization, and rigorous flake control.
• AI-assisted, data-driven quality: Apply LLM-assisted test generation/self-healing and enforce quality gates backed by live dashboards (coverage, flakiness, MTTR, DORA) to boost signal and confidence.
• Framework evolution (tool-agnostic): Evaluate and pilot modern UI/API automation options against clear criteria (reliability, speed, parity, maintainability, ROI) and recommend phased adoption that protects delivery.

Required Skills:

• 3+ years in a technical leadership or lead automation engineer role. MUST have Leadership experience
• Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) using Gherkin or Cucumber
• JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Ruby experience
• Experience with Spring Framework

Preferred Skills:

• Grafana experience
• Container Architecture: Docker or Kubernetes
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP
• Maven
• AI experience
• Jira
• Confluence

Contact the recruiter working on this position:

The recruiter working on this position is Hima Teja(Shaji Team)
His/her contact number is +(1) (202) 6290353
His/her contact email is teja@msysinc.com

Our recruiters will be more than happy to help you to get this contract.