• Review deliverables/activities as identified in the test plans for accuracy, consistency, completeness and compliance. • Ensure adequate test coverage for every release • Validate automated test coverage and directly contribute code to close gaps. • Mentor and provide day‑to‑day guidance to the junior members of the software test team. • Review work to ensure compliance and quality • Offer technical input when needed, but your primary responsibility is writing high‑quality automated tests and frameworks. • Provide feedback and suggest improvements to the Agile SDLC process • Identify inefficiencies and propose automation‑driven improvements that accelerate development and testing. • Strategically incorporate automated testing into the SDLC • Drive a fully automated testing approach. Manual testing is not part of this role. • UI automation is required, and mobile automation experience (especially Appium) is a major advantage. • Evaluate new tools for adoption within the organization • Assess and recommend automation tools, frameworks, and libraries that improve speed, reliability, or maintainability. • Develop and Optimize Automation Scripts and Frameworks • Design, code, and maintain automated test frameworks using Python or another modern programming language (Java, etc.). • Expect to spend the majority of your day writing code, building automation frameworks, and creating scalable automated test suites. • Automation of Testing Processes • Build end‑to‑end automated test suites across UI, mobile, integration, and system layers. • Candidates must have recent, hands‑on experience writing automated tests—not overseeing them, not delegating them. • Implement and Manage CI/CD Pipelines • Collaborate with DevOps as needed. CI/CD familiarity is helpful but secondary to strong coding and automation engineering skills. • Automation Solutions Customization • Adapt automation frameworks to meet regulatory and product‑specific requirements. • Ensure solutions are maintainable, reliable, and compliant. • Maintenance and Enhancement of Automated Systems • Continuously improve automation frameworks and test suites. • Identify opportunities to replace manual testing with automated solutions and implement them directly. • Collaboration and Technical Leadership • Work closely with developers and QA team members to ensure automation is deeply integrated into the development lifecycle. • Provide technical insight without serving in a lead or managerial capacity. • Technical Documentation and System Documentation • Produce clear, concise documentation for automated tests, frameworks, and processes. • Ensure documentation meets regulatory and compliance requirements.