Lead Quality Engineer (Test Automation)
Role Overview: As a Quality Engineer specializing in test automation, you will actively engage in your quality engineering craft, taking a hands-on approach to multiple high-visibility projects. Your expertise will be pivotal in delivering solutions that delight customers and users while also driving tangible value for Deloitte's business investments. You will leverage your quality engineering craftsmanship across multiple quality assurance disciplines and modern frameworks, consistently demonstrating your strong track record in delivering high-quality, outcome-focused solutions. The ideal candidate will have a background in quality assurance, test automation, and an understanding of modern testing frameworks and methodologies. This role will be pivotal in enhancing our test automation frameworks and ensuring the highest quality standards for our products.
Recruiting for this role ends on September 30, 2025.
Work You'll Do:
Outcome-Driven Accountability: Embrace and drive a culture of accountability for customer and business outcomes. Develop quality engineering solutions that solve complex problems with valuable outcomes, ensuring high-quality, test automations.
Technical Leadership and Advocacy: Serve as the quality advocate for products, ensuring high-quality automation coverage, appropriateness, feasibility, and alignment with business and customer goals. Design, develop, and maintain advanced automation frameworks to drive "Automation first mindset" using modern tools and technologies to streamline and enhance the testing process.
Engineering Craftsmanship: Maintain accountability for the integrity of test design, test automation, their ongoing maintenance and scale, as well as the quality of solutions. Stay hands-on, self-driven, and continuously learn new approaches, tools, techniques, and frameworks. Integrate modern tools and techniques into existing testing processes to improve accuracy, efficiency, and coverage of automated tests.
Customer-Centric Engineering: Develop lean quality engineering solutions through rapid, inexpensive experimentation to solve customer needs. Engage with customers and product teams before, during, and after delivery to ensure the right solution is delivered at the right time.
Incremental and Iterative Delivery: Adopt a mindset that favors action and evidence over extensive planning. Utilize a leaning-forward approach to navigate complexity and uncertainty, delivering lean, supportable, and maintainable solutions.
Cross-Functional Collaboration and Integration: Work collaboratively with empowered, cross-functional teams including product management, experience, engineering, and delivery. Integrate diverse perspectives to make well-informed decisions that balance feasibility, viability, usability, and value. Foster a collaborative environment that enhances team synergy and innovation.
Advanced Technical Proficiency: Possess basic knowledge of modern quality engineering practices and principles, including Agile methodologies and DevSecOps to deliver daily product deployments using techniques like fully automated in-sprint testing to accept the stories and work products, throughout the SDLC lifecycle. Strive to be a role model, leveraging these techniques to optimize solutioning and product delivery. Demonstrate an understanding of the full lifecycle product development, focusing on continuous improvement and learning.
Domain Expertise: Quickly acquire domain-specific knowledge relevant to the business or product. Translate business/user needs and UX/UI designs into test automation. Be a valuable, flexible, and dedicated team member, supportive of teammates, and focused on quality and tech debt payoff.
Effective Communication and Influence: Exhibit strong communication skills, capable of articulating complex technical concepts clearly and compellingly. Support teammates and product teams through well-structured arguments and trade-offs supported by evidence. Create coherent narratives that align technical solutions with business objectives.
Engagement and Collaborative Co-Creation: Engage and collaborate with product engineering teams, including customers as needed. Build and maintain constructive relationships, fostering a culture of co-creation and shared momentum towards achieving product goals. Align diverse perspectives and drive consensus to create feasible solutions.
The successful candidate will possess:
Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills, with the ability to handle diverse situations, complex projects, and changing priorities, behaving with passion, empathy, and care.
The team:
US Deloitte Technology Product Engineering has modernized software and product delivery, creating a scalable, cost-effective model that focuses on value/outcomes and leverages a progressive and responsive talent structure. As Deloitte's primary internal development team, Product Engineering delivers innovative digital solutions to businesses, service lines, and internal operations with proven bottom-line results and outcomes. It helps power Deloitte's success. It is the engine that drives Deloitte, serving many of the world's largest, most respected companies. We develop and deploy cutting-edge internal and go-to-market solutions that help Deloitte operate effectively and lead in the market. Our reputation is built on a tradition of delivering with excellence.
Qualifications:
Required:
A bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline.
5+ years of experience in quality assurance and specifically with test automation.
5+ years of experience automation-first techniques like BDD and test automation tools (e.g., Selenium, Functionize, Testim, Gherkin, AccelQ)
3+ years of experience using data engineering applications, particularly those involving data lakes and data ingestion pipelines.
Limited immigration sponsorship may be available
Ability to travel 0-10%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
Preferred:
An advanced degree (e.g., MS) in computer science, software engineering, or a related discipline.
Prior experience with cloud hyper-scalers like Azure, AWS, and GCP.
*Prior experience with TOSCA.
Prior experience using methodologies & tools like, XP, Lean, SAFe, DevSecOps, ADO, GitHub, SonarQube, etc. to deliver high quality products rapidly.
How You will Grow: At Deloitte, our professional development plans focus on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day and excel in everything they do.
The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $ 88,600 to $ 181,900.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.
Information for applicants with a need for accommodation:
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