For over 30 years, Talent has been redefining the contracting experience with industry-leading support, exclusive contractor benefits, and our world-class digital platform, ENGAGE.
About The Role
As the Technical Test Lead, you will be responsible for designing and implementing modern automation frameworks, establishing quality engineering standards, and embedding automated quality controls throughout the delivery lifecycle.
Working across multiple SaaS platforms and integrations, you will combine technical leadership with hands-on delivery to improve release confidence, accelerate execution, and build long-term automation capability.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks across API, integration, and UI layers.
- Drive an API-first testing approach including contract testing, integration testing, and end-to-end validation.
- Establish reusable automation assets and engineering standards that promote maintainability and scalability.
- Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines and support reliable test orchestration across environments.
- Lead secure test data management practices, including provisioning, masking, obfuscation, and lifecycle management.
- Define and execute performance, compatibility, and non-functional testing strategies.
- Provide hands-on technical leadership through code reviews, mentoring, standards development, and engineering uplift.
- Coach internal teams and vendors, fostering quality engineering best practices and communities of practice.
- Develop and monitor quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting focused on automation health, coverage, stability, and pipeline effectiveness.
You are a technically strong quality engineering professional who enjoys solving complex automation challenges and leading by example.
You Will Bring
- Proven experience as a Technical Test Lead, Lead SDET, Senior SDET, or Quality Engineering Lead.
- Strong software engineering capability with experience designing and building automation frameworks from the ground up.
- Deep expertise in API automation, contract testing, integration testing, and end-to-end orchestration.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD practices, automated quality gates, and GitHub-based workflows.
- Experience implementing test data management, masking, and obfuscation solutions.
- Hands-on experience delivering performance and compatibility testing within cloud-hosted environments.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and mentoring skills with the ability to uplift teams and influence engineering practices.
- A pragmatic mindset with the ability to balance strategic architecture decisions with hands-on delivery.
Experience With The Following Technologies Will Be Highly Regarded
- Playwright
- Karate
- GitHub & GitHub Actions
- AWS EC2
- DataMasque
- Modern API testing and automation frameworks
- Cloud-native delivery environments
- Opportunity to shape and lead a modern API-first quality engineering capability.
- Work across a complex, enterprise-scale SaaS and integration ecosystem.
- High-impact role with significant influence on engineering practices and delivery outcomes.
- Supportive contracting experience through Talent’s market-leading ENGAGE platform.
Apply now to learn more.
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About the company
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