SDET Lead

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Define and evolve enterprise QA strategy across web, mobile, and API platforms.
• Establish automated quality gates in CI/CD pipelines and drive test planning, execution strategy, risk analysis, and test data management.
• Lead root-cause analysis of high-severity production defects and implement preventative measures.
• Partner with Product Managers and Software Engineering Leads to integrate testing early in the development lifecycle.
• Escalate quality issues across release streams and report quality dashboards and operating status to senior technology leadership.
• Govern vendor KPIs, SLAs, statements of work, performance reviews, and cost management.
• Lead manual, automated, performance, and security test strategy and promote shift-left testing.
• Manage distributed offshore and nearshore teams across time zones and track quality metrics, including defect leakage, test coverage, MTTD, and MTTR.

Qualifications and requirements

• 7+ years in Software Quality Assurance, including 3+ years in a senior lead, manager, or QA director capacity.
• Experience managing vendor teams, third-party contracts, and offshore or nearshore testing units of 20+ engineers.
• Hands-on test automation experience with Cypress, Playwright, or Selenium and API testing with Postman or REST APIs.
• Knowledge of release management and CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
• Professional fluency in spoken and written French and English.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Tools and technology

• Tool stack listed includes Jira, Xray, Zephyr, TestRail, Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Postman, and RestAssured.
• Pipeline tools listed include Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps; performance tools include JMeter, k6, and BlazeMeter.
• Collaboration and reporting tools listed include Confluence, Slack, MS Teams, Miro, Notion, Power BI, Tableau, and Jira Dashboards; AI tooling includes Claude and Codex.

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