Senior Automation SDET Lead

Ness Digital Engineering

Senior Automation SDET Leader at Ness Digital Engineering overseeing testing automation efforts. Leading and managing a team to enhance quality assurance processes in a hybrid remote environment.

Posted 5/13/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCypressJenkinsJMeterSDLCSelenium

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 10-15 Automation SDETs, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
Oversee the execution of the automation backlog, prioritized by QE 1.0 and delivery leadership, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery.
Ensure automation efforts focus on: regression risk, customer- and analyst-visible workflows, and trust-breaking/high-impact failure scenarios.
Collaborate closely with ART-aligned QE leads and development teams to integrate automation seamlessly into the SDLC.
Ensure automation is reliable, maintainable, and production-relevant, adhering to defined patterns and standards.
Contribute execution telemetry (coverage, failure patterns, flakiness) into QE reporting mechanisms, providing insights for continuous improvement.
Rapidly scale team effort up or down based on release and delivery demand.
Identify and implement improvements to automation processes, tools, and techniques.
Enforce adherence to established automation standards and governance policies.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven experience leading and managing a team of automation and performance testing engineers
Strong hands-on experience with test automation and performance frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, Cypress, Jmeter, Loadrunner, Tosca) and CI/CD integration (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI)
Ability to automate at API, service, and workflow (UI) layers as needed
Experience working in high-pressure delivery environments
Strong collaboration skills with developers, QE leads, and other stakeholders
Discipline in following standards, patterns, and governance
Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Hybrid remote working arrangements
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

test automationperformance testingSeleniumAppiumCypressJmeterLoadrunnerToscaCI/CD integrationAPI automation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcollaborationanalytical skillsproblem-solvingcommunicationdisciplineadaptabilityteam managementcontinuous improvement