• Leads, mentors, and develops a team of SDETs and QA Engineers by clearly defining development goals, providing performance feedback, and establishing performance metrics. • Collaborates with the Project Management team on project plans and supports the Release Management and DevOps teams with release engineering. • Designs, develops, and maintains automated test scripts using common open-source test automation solutions such as Selenium, Appium, Playwright, and Cypress. • Collaborates with Test Automation Architect to implement and enhance test automation frameworks to support end-to-end testing of microservices/APIs, cloud-native applications, and Large Language Model (LLM) testing. • Collaborates with cross-functional teams to define test strategies, test plans, and test cases, ensuring comprehensive test coverage and high-quality deliverables. • Drives the adoption of modern testing methodologies and tools, including CI/CD pipelines, containerization, and cloud-based testing platforms. • Conducts code reviews and provide technical guidance to ensure adherence to best practices and coding standards. • Analyzes test results, identifying root causes of defects, and working with development teams to resolve issues promptly. • Stays up to date with the latest industry trends and advancements in test automation, microservices, cloud-native solutions, and LLM Technologies. • Leads the hiring process for new team members and is responsible for the daily performance management of current team members. • Performs team member review, evaluation, and compensation processes. • Manages and monitors non-production environments to ensure availability, integrations, refreshes, access, and test data are readily available. • Provides quality metrics in each sprint for the automation done by the SDET team. • Acts as the liaison between Product, Engineering, QA, and other team members to ensure coordination, synergy, and successful sprint/feature delivery. • Ensures proper documentation and maintenance of Automation test plans, test scenarios, and test cases. • Demonstrates a strong understanding of Agile methodologies and dependencies. • Effectively manages the workload of the SDETs and QA Engineers, when applicable. • Evaluates processes, anticipates problems, communicates suggestions to optimize effectiveness and efficiency, takes corrective action, and escalates as needed to resolve and achieve commitments. • Has solid understanding of black box and white box testing techniques. • Other duties as assigned.