[Hiring] SDET team lead @GSB Solutions

Role Description

• Lead and coordinate day-to-day activities for the Mexico-based SDET team, ensuring alignment on deliverables and local operational needs.
• Coordinate with distributed teams across different time zones to ensure testing strategies are synchronized and project goals are met.
• Analyze and architect technical test solutions for complex user stories, ensuring deep coverage for integration points and distributed systems.
• Optimize and refactor existing automated regression suites to maximize reliability, reduce execution time, and eliminate flakiness.
• Refine and extend existing automation frameworks, ensuring they remain modular, scalable, and accessible for the wider engineering team.
• Directly expand API automation coverage, implementing robust validation for microservices, data integrity, and cross-service communication.
• Perform deep-dive technical analysis to refactor automation code and keep it aligned with evolving application architecture.
• Implement and maintain automated performance as integrated components of the continuous delivery pipeline.
• Execute root cause analysis on complex defects, providing developers with detailed technical insights and automated reproduction scripts.
• Drive technical gap analysis to identify untested code paths and proactively implement solutions to improve overall system testability.
• Partner with Dev and Product to provide technical feedback on requirements, ensuring acceptance criteria are precise and technically sound.
• Own the technical scaling of automation solutions, ensuring they support high-speed execution across multiple environments.
• Provide technical expertise during sprint grooming and bug triage to ensure complex defects are understood and prioritized correctly.
• Own and execute special technical projects, such as upgrading test infrastructure or optimizing CI/CD workflows.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of modern software architecture, including microservices, containerization (Docker), and cloud-native environments.
• High proficiency in at least one major programming language (e.g., Python, Java, TypeScript, or C#) with a focus on writing clean, scalable code.
• Advanced knowledge of industry-standard test design patterns and the ability to apply them effectively to existing UI and API frameworks.
• Extensive experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Selenium, Appium, Postman, or RestAssured.
• Solid experience in performance engineering using tools like k6, JMeter, or Locust to identify system bottlenecks.
• Advanced proficiency with CI/CD orchestration tools (like Harness, BitBucket, or Jenkins) to optimize automated release cycles.
• High comfort level with cloud-based testing infrastructure like SauceLabs, BrowserStack, or AWS Device Farm.
• Strong technical analytical skills, the ability to interpret complex specs and discover edge cases through deep exploration of software behaviors.
• Expert technical communication skills, with the ability to translate complex quality risks into actionable engineering tasks.
• Proven leadership ability in managing day-to-day operations for local teams and coordinating with distributed stakeholders while providing technical mentorship to improve coding standards.

Requirements

• Generally eight (8) plus years of experience in Software Engineering and Test Automation, with a proven track record of significantly improving existing automation.
• Advanced conversational English and Spanish essential (will be evaluated).
• If you are a foreigner residing in Mexico, you must have a valid INE, CURP, NSS, and RFC.

Benefits

• Excellent superior benefits.