Lead Quality Assurance Automation Engineer - Selenium/Appium (8-10 yrs)

About the job :

At Instawork, we're driven by our vision to create economic opportunity for local businesses and skilled hourly professionals in communities around the world.

With a growing number of hub cities across the world in the U.S, Canada, India, and beyond, we're looking for top talent to help rapidly scale our high-tech and high-touch labor marketplace.

Our accomplished and dedicated team is passionate about our mission and committed to crafting revolutionary products, all with the backing of our world-class investors, including Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock Capital, Y Combinator, and more!

We have an immediate opening for a "Lead - QA Automation Engineer", with a proven track record of success to join our rapidly growing team in the Bangalore Office.

As a Hands-On QA Automation Lead, you will play a pivotal role in coordinating and contributing to the activities of the engineering pod and delivering successful feature releases.

You will be writing new tests, developing new architectures and bringing a culture of innovation and technical depth into the team.

You'll lead exciting side projects, advancing the frontiers of QA automation with AI, and work alongside a highly agile team to test products, platforms, and third-party SDKs-all in a single day.

As the foremost technical leader, you will also manage and mentor a team of skilled QA engineers, ensuring that new features are thoroughly tested and delivered on schedule, meet our quality standards, and contribute to ongoing improvements.

What You'll Do :

- Team Leadership : Lead, mentor, and inspire a team of talented QA engineers, fostering a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation.

- Technical Expertise : Implement automation tests across both Web and Mobile (IOS & Android).

- We are willing to train people who have no mobile automation experience but have strong programming skills and web automation experience.

- Hands-On Involvement : Must be hands-on and coding 70% of time with strong QA engineering fundamentals.

- Manual Testing : Create efficient test plans and maintain the test case repository as our product grows in functionality.

- Test new features that have not yet been automated by performing Black Box and White Box testing

- Project Management : Oversee the planning, execution, and releases of various features ensuring adherence to timelines and quality standards.

- Resource Allocation : Allocate resources effectively, balancing workloads among team members and optimizing productivity.

- Recruiting experience (sourcing, interviewing, offering, etc) is ideal

- Performance Evaluation : Conduct regular performance assessments, providing feedback, and identifying areas for professional development for individual team members.

- Cross-Functional Collaboration : Collaborate with other departments (e.g engineering, product management, design, operations) to ensure smooth and efficient project delivery.

- Process Improvement : Identify opportunities for process optimization and implement best practices to enhance automation workflows.

- Technical Documentation : Ensure comprehensive and accurate documentation of QA engineering processes, methodologies, and technical implementations.

- Stay Updated : Keep abreast of industry trends, technological advancements, and best practices to drive innovation within the QA team and the company.

Who You Are :

- 8+ years experience with UI Automation testing tools.

- Bonus for Mobile automation (iOS/Android) experience using Appium and Selenium.

- 2+ years as Tech lead or Team manager.

- Demonstrated ability to mentor and develop team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

- BS or MS in Computer Science or related field.

- Programming experience in Python + Javascript or similar language

- You're a top automation engineer, capable of producing large amounts of code quickly.

- You contribute to open source projects and are seen as the team's most knowledgeable engineer.

- Eager to learn about new trends and technologies, and excited to introduce innovative ideas to QA automation using AI.

- Experience working in agile, fast-paced environments and familiar with CI/CD processes.

- Self-motivated, especially with respect to learning new software tools and best practices in software quality assurance.

- Startup mentality : self-starter, proactive, flexible.

- Effective communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams