• Own the design, implementation, and ongoing curation of team-level automation suites, ensuring alignment to product risk and change. • Design automated checks intentionally based on risk, behavior, and failure value, not step-by-step replication. • Partner with embedded Quality Engineers to convert exploratory findings, risk models, and testing insights into automation candidates. • Participate in refinement, design, and sprint planning discussions to raise testability, automation, and observability considerations early. • Decide where automated checks belong (pipeline, nightly, lower-frequency suites) and adjust placement as risk evolves. • Investigate automation failures, diagnose root causes, eliminate flakiness, and improve signal reliability. • Ensure automated tests provide clear, actionable diagnostic output to support fast decision-making. • Contribute to shared automation patterns, heuristics, and standards across teams. • Mentor and support other Automation Engineers and QEs in automation design, risk-based coverage, and curation practices. • Collaborate with framework and enablement teams to surface gaps, improvements, or tooling needs. • Ensure automation coverage and outcomes are visible and interpretable through Testmo and other reporting tools. • Contribute to sprint- and release-level quality stories, clearly articulating what automation covers, what it does not, and remaining risks.