Lead Software Test Automation Engineer
Wolters Kluwer3 days ago
Base Salary
$90k - $157k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own risk-based, multi-layer test automation strategy across UI, API, contract, component, integration, end-to-end, data, and platform testing.
- Design and scale maintainable automation frameworks, reusable components, test data practices, diagnostics, reporting, and quality standards.
- Build validation for probabilistic AI and agentic outcomes using evaluation datasets, thresholds, semantic and rubric-based scoring, groundedness testing, robustness checks, and regression detection.
- Integrate automated validation into CI/CD through pull-request checks, scheduled suites, deployment gates, and release-readiness criteria.
- Improve automation speed and reliability through parallelization, intelligent test selection, dependency control, deterministic data, and disciplined retry strategies.
- Standardize observability through logs, traces, screenshots or video, artifacts, diagnostics, and quality dashboards.
- Define test environment, service virtualization, external dependency, and repeatable environment setup practices.
- Lead technical and code reviews, coach engineers, influence quality investments, and use production telemetry, incidents, customer issues, and defect patterns to improve coverage.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience; a relevant master’s degree is preferred.
- 8+ years of software quality engineering or test automation experience with significant ownership of automation frameworks, technical design, and strategy for complex commercial software.
- Hands-on experience designing scalable automation across API, contract, integration, UI, data, and end-to-end layers.
- Strong programming ability in at least one of Java, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#.
- Experience with UI and API automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured, SuperTest, Postman/Newman, or pytest.
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps, including quality gates and release-readiness criteria.
- Experience improving test reliability and execution speed through flakiness reduction, parallelization, test selection, diagnostics, test data strategies, environment management, service virtualization, and dependency control.
- Experience validating AI/ML, generative AI, agentic, or other probabilistic product capabilities using evaluation harnesses, benchmark datasets, semantic or rubric-based scoring, groundedness, and regression evaluation.
- Practical experience with Agentic Product Development Lifecycle and Spec-Driven Development, including translating specifications and acceptance criteria into traceable automated validation.
- Working knowledge of security, performance, accessibility, resilience, and reliability testing.
- Strong coding, code-review, debugging, root-cause analysis, systems-thinking, communication, technical leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to balance delivery speed, coverage, reliability, maintainability, and business risk while coaching engineers and driving quality ownership.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan.
- FSA/HSA benefits.
- Commuter benefits.
- Tuition assistance plan.
- Vacation and sick time.
- Paid parental leave.
- Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office for interviews.
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About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer builds subscription software, data, and workflow solutions for professionals in healthcare, tax and accounting, legal and regulatory, finance and compliance, and ESG. Its portfolio spans SaaS applications and expert content that support compliance, decision-making, and operational processes. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, it is publicly traded on Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and reported 2025 annual revenue of €6.1 billion.