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Lead Automation Engineer
Louisville, Kentucky
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Job Description:
Lead Automation Engineer
Brooksource
Fortune 50 Health Insurance Client
Remote
Overview:
Our client is looking for a Lead Automation Engineer to join the engineering team responsible for building and maintaining a payer-agnostic web platform. You’ll work alongside full stack engineers on the same user stories, driving automation strategy and strengthening their regression test suite to support a growing, multi-environment product.
This is a hands-on leadership role — ideal for someone who takes initiative, identifies automation gaps, and builds scalable testing solutions without waiting for direction. You’ll help evolve their Playwright-based test suite while deepening coverage across UI, API, and integration layers.
What You’ll Do:
- Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of automated testing frameworks and test suites (primarily using Playwright).
- Partner with full stack developers on shared user stories to proactively define and automate regression coverage.
- Expand and optimize existing smoke and regression test suites, ensuring consistency across multiple environments and live production.
- Introduce and maintain API-level testing and integration testing as the platform brings on new vendors and services.
- Mentor other automation engineers, helping them ramp up in Playwright and automation best practices.
- Collaborate with leadership and product teams — clearly communicating testing health, risk, and coverage metrics.
- Continuously evaluate emerging test tools, frameworks, and best practices to drive automation maturity.
Must-Have Skills:
- Proven experience as a Lead or Senior Automation Engineer — someone who can guide others and self-direct priorities.
- 5+ years of experience in test automation, with expertise in frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, or similar.
- 1–2 years of experience (or strong working knowledge) with Playwright — or demonstrated ability to quickly ramp up on new tools.
- Strong proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.
- Solid understanding of web technologies (HTML, CSS, DOM, React/Angular/Vue).
- Experience building and maintaining API and integration tests (Postman, RestAssured, etc.).
- Ability to design clean, modular, maintainable test code.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Experience setting up test reporting (Allure, JUnit, TestNG) or trace visualization.
- Exposure to containerized environments (Docker) or cloud-based test execution.
- Familiarity with behavior-driven testing (Cucumber/Gherkin).
Soft Skills:
- Self-starter with the ability to identify needs and implement solutions independently.
- Strong communicator — comfortable interfacing with both technical peers and leadership.
- Collaborative, approachable, and easy to work with in a fast-moving Agile team.
- Curious mindset — eager to learn new technologies and continuously improve testing processes.
Disclaimer: Brooksource, Medasource, and Calculated Hire are part of the Eight Eleven Group family of companies and operate under Eight Eleven Group, LLC. All employees receive the same benefits, policies, and terms of employment.
EEO:
We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, military or veteran status, citizenship, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related conditions), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
Benefits & Perks:
Eight Eleven Group offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc.
Pay Disclaimer:
The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
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