SDET team lead

Job Expectations: ● Lead and coordinate day-to-day activities for the Mexico-based SDET team, ensuring alignment on deliverables and local operational needs. ● Coordinate with distributed teams across different time zones to ensure testing strategies are synchronized and project goals are met. ● Analyze and architect technical test solutions for complex user stories, ensuring deep coverage for integration points and distributed systems. ● Optimize and refactor existing automated regression suites to maximize reliability, reduce execution time, and eliminate flakiness. ● Refine and extend existing automation frameworks, ensuring they remain modular, scalable, and accessible for the wider engineering team. ● Directly expand API automation coverage, implementing robust validation for microservices, data integrity, and cross-service communication. ● Perform deep-dive technical analysis to refactor automation code and keep it aligned with evolving application architecture. ● Implement and maintain automated performance as integrated components of the continuous delivery pipeline. ● Execute root cause analysis on complex defects, providing developers with detailed technical insights and automated reproduction scripts. ● Drive technical gap analysis to identify untested code paths and proactively implement solutions to improve overall system testability. ● Partner with Dev and Product to provide technical feedback on requirements, ensuring acceptance criteria are precise and technically sound. ● Own the technical scaling of automation solutions, ensuring they support high-speed execution across multiple environments. ● Provide technical expertise during sprint grooming and bug triage to ensure complex defects are understood and prioritized correctly. ● Own and execute special technical projects, such as upgrading test infrastructure or optimizing CI/CD workflows. Knowledge, Skills and Abilities: ● Deep understanding of modern software architecture, including microservices, containerization (Docker), and cloud-native environments. ● High proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Java, TypeScript, or C#) with a focus on writing clean, scalable code. ● Advanced knowledge of industry-standard test design patterns and the ability to apply them effectively to existing UI and API frameworks. ● Extensive experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Postman, or RestAssured. ● Solid experience in performance engineering using tools like k6, JMeter, or Locust to identify system bottlenecks. ● Advanced proficiency with CI/CD orchestration tools (like Harness, BitBucket, or Jenkins) to optimize automated release cycles. ● High comfort level with cloud-based testing infrastructure like SauceLabs, BrowserStack, or AWS Device Farm. ● Strong technical analytical skills, the ability to interpret complex specs and discover edge cases through deep exploration of software behaviors. ● Expert technical communication skills, with the ability to translate complex quality risks into actionable engineering tasks. ● Proven leadership ability in managing day-to-day operations for local teams and coordinating with distributed stakeholders while providing technical mentorship to improve coding standards. Experience Requirements: ● Generally eight (8) plus years of experience in Software Engineering and Test Automation, with a proven track record of significantly improving existing automation ADVANCED ENGLISH REMOTE