Lead Test Automation Engineer
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About the role
The Lead Test Automation Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for guiding a team of 2–3 automation engineers and advancing automation maturity across complex applications and delivery teams.
This role leads the design, development, and ongoing improvement of scalable test automation frameworks, environments, and CI/CD integrations. The individual works with minimal supervision and partners closely with engineering, product, DevOps, architecture, business subject matter experts, and QA teams to improve test coverage, reliability, performance, and release confidence.
What you will do
- Lead and provide technical direction to a team of automation engineers.
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable automated test strategies, frameworks, and scripts supporting API, UI, integration, functional, regression, smoke, performance, and reliability testing.
- Recommend and help standardize automation frameworks, test environments, tools, coding practices, and implementation patterns.
- Drive automation strategy, framework design, solution planning, CI/CD integration, and tooling decisions for major initiatives.
- Remain hands-on with framework development, test implementation, code reviews, debugging, and technical problem-solving.
- Mentor automation engineers, Software Test Engineers, analysts, and interns, and serve as an automation subject matter expert across delivery teams.
- Lead the consistent adoption of automation and quality engineering best practices.
- Own automation framework health, pipeline integration, execution reliability, and communication of automation risks, gaps, and progress to leadership.
- Define and track meaningful automation metrics, including coverage, execution results, stability, failure trends, and test effectiveness.
- Lead root-cause analysis for complex automation failures, framework issues, and recurring defects, and implement improvements to prevent recurrence.
- Identify and implement improvements that increase automation efficiency, maintainability, scalability, and execution speed.
- Partner with development, QA, DevOps, architecture, product teams, business stakeholders, and third-party vendors to support high-quality delivery.
- Communicate technical recommendations, automation health, delivery risks, and improvement opportunities to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Why Work at Symetra
Here’s what some of our employees have to say about why they work at Symetra:
“We're big enough to make an impact on the country, but small enough to care and know who you are and what you're contributing to the organization. All new ideas are welcome!” - Stephanie F., VP Customer Service & Operations
“From day one, I felt welcomed and encouraged to bring my full self to work. Symetra truly lives up to its commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—it's more than just words here; it's part of the culture.” - Whitney T., Talent Development
What we offer you
Benefits and Perks
We don’t take a “one-size-fits-all” approach when it comes to our employees. Our programs are designed to make your life better both at work and at home.
- Flexible full-time or hybrid telecommuting arrangements
- Plan for your future with our 401(k) plan and take advantage of immediate vesting and company matching up to 6%
- Paid time away including vacation and sick time, flex days and ten paid holidays
- Give back to your community and double your impact through our company matching
- Want more details? Check out our Symetra Benefits Overview