Lead Software Test Automation Engineer

Engineering Excellence Through Automation Leadership.

Work shouldn't just be something we do; it should have a purpose. At Envision, we believe in creating life‑changing outcomes through the work we do with our clients, giving back to our communities, while creating a company culture where our people thrive. We believe success starts with a workplace where everyone feels valued, supported, and empowered to grow.

Being part of a collaborative team means there's no limit to what you can achieve. With us, you can be a part of a growing company you want to work for.

To unleash the power of combined intelligence to accelerate patient access to life‑changing treatments.

Delivering smarter and faster solutions to create, communicate, and commercialize value for our clients.

The Lead Software Test Automation Engineer will drive the design, implementation, and execution of scalable test automation frameworks across our products and platforms. This role combines deep technical expertise in modern test automation tools with leadership responsibilities for guiding a Global team of Test Automation engineers. You will collaborate closely with engineering, product, and Dev Ops teams to ensure quality is embedded into every stage of the development lifecycle, drive shift‑left practices with a focus on increasing test automation ROI (return on investment).

Role responsibilities

• Define and own the test automation strategy and roadmap across multiple projects.
• Lead and mentor a global team of automation engineers, setting best practices in coding, automation, peer reviews, and test design.
• Architect, implement, and maintain automation frameworks for web tests (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress), API tests (Postman, Swagger) and backend testing.
• Partner with Dev Ops to integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Git Hub Actions, Bitbucket).
• Drive adoption of AI into automation frameworks, coding, test management.
• Establish metrics / dashboards to track test coverage, execution and quality trends.
• Drive adoption of shift‑left testing by collaborating with developers and product managers during design and development phases.
• Support performance, security, and other non‑functional testing initiatives.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, innovation, and quality ownership.
• Work with a globally distributed team and ensure project coverage focusing on prioritization, tasking, and status reporting.
• Act as the automation evangelist across the organization – educating cross functional teams on benefits of automation, the process and methodology for creating automated tests and tracking automation ROI.
• Oversee hiring, onboarding, set goals, monitor performance, identify career paths, ensure that team members are cross‑trained.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or equivalent.
• Hands‑on experience with coding for test automation in an agile environment required.
• Supervisory experience required.
• Hands‑on experience in testing tools/ frameworks like Cypress, Spock, Gherkin, Geb.
• Experience with API testing tools such as Postman, Swagger.
• Experience with setting up CI/CD pipelines, deployments and Dev Ops tools like Jenkins, Git Hub actions, Docker, etc..

Do you have the experience we are looking for? If so, explore your place at Envision today!