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Lead Automation Engineer

Odaseva· Technology – Engineering
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Hybrid (Paris, France)€55k - €66kFull-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Lead hands-on technical leadership role driving automation strategy within Odaseva's Quality Engineering organization, including building reactive test frameworks, CI/CD integration, and AI-driven QE practices; acts as backup to QA Manager when needed.

Responsibilities

  • Design, build, and maintain reactive, scalable test automation frameworks from the ground up
  • Define automation standards, coding conventions, and best practices across the QE team
  • Continuously evaluate and evolve the toolchain to keep pace with product and team growth
  • Lead UI test automation using Playwright, including page object patterns, parallelization, and cross-browser strategy
  • Own API test automation using Postman and Pactum JS (collections, environments, automated test scripts, monitors)
  • Integrate automated test suites deeply into CI/CD pipelines, optimizing for speed, reliability, and actionable failure reporting
  • Champion a "shift-left" approach, embedding automation earlier in the development lifecycle
  • Identify and implement practical AI applications within QE workflows: test generation, self-healing tests, intelligent triage of flaky tests, coverage gap analysis, and reporting automation
  • Stay current on AI-assisted testing tools and evaluate their fit for the team's stack and maturity level
  • Mentor QE engineers on automation best practices, framework usage, and debugging
  • Act as backup to the QA Manager: covering team check-ins, sprint planning, release quality gates, and stakeholder updates in their absence
  • Partner with engineering, product, and release management to align automation coverage with release priorities
  • Track and report automation coverage, execution health, and ROI metrics to engineering leadership
  • Drive root-cause analysis on test failures and flaky tests, feeding improvements back into the framework

Qualifications

  • Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline
  • 8 years+ of software engineering, quality assurance/engineering
  • Proven experience building test automation frameworks from scratch
  • Strong, hands-on experience with Playwright for UI automation
  • Strong, hands-on experience with Postman for API testing and automation
  • Experience with Gherkin/BDD frameworks
  • Solid CI/CD experience (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar), including pipeline design for test execution
  • Practical experience applying AI tools/techniques within a QA or QE context
  • Familiarity with test data strategy and orchestration for complex, multi-step workflows
  • Experience mentoring or informally leading other engineers
  • Comfortable stepping into a management-adjacent role (planning, reporting, team coordination) when needed
  • Strong communication skills, able to report to both technical and non-technical/VP-level stakeholders

Skills

Required:Test automation framework designPlaywrightPostmanCI/CDGherkin/BDD
Nice to have:Pactum JS

Benefits

  • €55,000 - €66,000 a year
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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