Test Automation Lead

About the team Symetra ’s Individual Life Division (ILD) is seeking a full-time Test Automation Lead. This is a hands-on, division-level technical leadership role responsible for establishing and driving a unified test automation strategy across ILD delivery teams owning framework standards, mentoring, and hands-on implementation. About the role As a technical leader, you will partner with engineers, product owners, QA teams, delivery leads, and stakeholders across ILD and Symetra to champion quality throughout the development lifecycle. You will provide technical leadership that fosters a quality-first mindset and builds consistent automation practices across delivery teams, advancing Symetra ’s shift-left, automation-first Quality Engineering model in which quality is built into the development process. The successful candidate will translate a quality first vision into standardized practice, ultimately improving customer and partner experiences and delivering greater predictability in ILD’s speed to market. What you will do Define and drive a unified test automation strategy across ILD delivery teams, standardizing secure, scalable tools and frameworks and driving continuous improvement of testing strategies, frameworks, and tools. Utilize Symetra -approved tools and technology for quality engineering purposes for the following: Partner with engineering and DevOps on CI/CD pipelines as code (YAML) in Azure DevOps, defining the automated test execution those pipelines must include. Define the automated quality gates and validation standards for Azure DevOps pipelines — including test execution on pull requests and the criteria for promotion — and partner with engineering and DevOps to implement them and apply release controls. Set the standards for extending quality into production through observability — including synthetic and health-check testing of critical paths — and partner with operations and engineering on monitoring, alerting, and incident feedback loops