Lead Automation Engineer

Team: Engineering

Location: Paris

Commitment: Full time

Workplace Type: hybrid

About The Role

We are looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to drive the automation strategy across our Quality Engineering organization.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role:

you will architect and evolve reactive test automation frameworks, own API and UI test coverage, embed automation deeply into CI/CD, and bring AI-driven approaches into everyday QE practice.

You will also act as a backup to the QA Manager, stepping in on team coordination, planning, and stakeholder reporting when needed.





 

Key Responsibilities

Automation Strategy & Framework Ownership

• 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

Technical Execution

• Lead UI test automation using Playwright, including page object patterns, parallelization, and cross-browser strategy

• Own API test automation and 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

AI-Driven Quality Engineering

• 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

Leadership & Team Support

• 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

Reporting & Continuous Improvement

• 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

Required 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.

Nice to Have

Experience in a Salesforce or data management product environment.

Where you'll be

Based in Paris (75002), France.
Hybrid: 3 days in the office / 2 days remote work.
Full time permanent contract position.