Senior Automation Engineer - AWS/Python

You are being hired for a leadership QA role at a global digital solutions company specializing in cloud, data engineering, and quality assurance. In this role, you will be responsible for managing both manual and automated testing across ETL pipelines, UI, and databases. You will lead a team and collaborate cross-functionally across global teams, implementing best practices in testing, owning quality strategy documentation, and integrating with CI/CD tools. **Key Responsibilities:** - Lead and manage a QA team (4+ members) handling ETL, UI, DB, and end-to-end testing. - Analyze requirements, create detailed test cases and test data (manual & automated). - Validate ETL workflows and transformation logic using advanced SQL (Snowflake/Postgres/MySQL). - Create and maintain automation scripts using BDD (Gherkin/Behave, Pytest) in Python. - Integrate automation frameworks with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Rundeck. - Develop and maintain documentation - Test Strategy, BRDs, Defect Reports, etc. - Drive collaboration across DevOps, SRE, developers, and stakeholders. - Provide testing metrics and improvement plans to senior leadership. **Must-Have Qualifications:** - 9-12 years total QA experience with 6+ years in ETL/UI/DB testing. - 3+ years experience in automation testing (Selenium v3+, Playwright) with Python. - Strong hands-on experience with SQL queries (preferably Snowflake/Postgres). - Experience with AWS or other cloud platforms. - Proven leadership managing at least 2 QA team members. - Working experience with Agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban). - Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. **Nice To Have:** - Exposure to DBT, Informatica, or MS Power BI. - Healthcare/Life Sciences domain knowledge. - Front-end vs back-end validation exposure. - Willingness to work flexible hours with international teams. You should have a degree in BCA / B.Sc. (Computer Science) / B.E. / B.Tech / MCA / M.E. / M.Tech.,