QA Automation Lead

Employer: International cassino games studioLocation: until first quarter of 2027 remote, then hybrid from WarsawSalary: 5950 - 7600 EUR NETCooperation model: B2BStart date: ASAPRecruitment process: 2 online interviews and recruitment task Technology stack: Playwright or Cypress or Selenium, GIT, Jenkins, Javascript or Typescript Your role is to:-> Own the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated test frameworks covering UI, API, and end-to-end testing; -> Lead a small team of QA engineers, providing hands-on guidance, code reviews, and day-to-day direction; -> Take responsibility for test coverage across assigned product areas, ensuring regressions are caught before they reach production;-> Build and maintain performance test scripts that are reusable, version controlled, and easy to update as the product changes; -> Integrate and maintain automated test suites within CI/CD pipelines, owning the feedback loop for your team;-> Define and enforce testing standards, processes, and documentation within the squad;-> Collaborate with developers and product managers to review requirements and translate them into thorough test plans;-> Own defect triage and test failure analysis, coordinating directly with engineers to drive resolution;-> Continuously improving test reliability, speed, and coverage, proactively flagging risks to engineering leads; Your skills and experiences:-> 6+ years of QA automation experience, with demonstrated ownership of a test automation codebase;-> Solid hands-on experience with frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium; -> Strong proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript for writing and maintaining test scripts;-> Proven experience owning CI/CD-integrated test pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or similar);-> Solid API testing experience using tools such as Postman or Supertest;-> Familiarity with RESTful API and WebSocket testing for real-time features;-> Good understanding of Git workflows and agile delivery practices;-> Strong communicators who can represent quality concern clearly to developers and product stakeholders;-> Ownership mentality — takes accountability for test outcomes and drives issues through to resolution;-> Organized and methodical, able to manage workload across multiple features and release cycles;-> Collaborative team lead who enjoys growing junior engineers and raising the quality bar;