Test Lead Senior – Expert Test Automation Freelance

Project overview

Mission Test Lead Senior – Expert Test Automation Freelance

Project details

3 years

Start Date: ASAP

Châtillon

Experience: 10 years +

Remote Work: 2 days/week max

Industry: Large Retail

Context of the mission

Technical Environment

Main Missions

Activity and Project Steering

Technical Expertise and Automation

Innovation and Continuous Improvement

Profile Sought

• Within our client's Test Factory, structuring and developing the automation of functional UI, API, and mobile tests.
• Direct reporting to the Test Domain Manager, covering a multi-project scope.
• Close collaboration with pole managers, functional Test Leads, business and technical teams, and external partners.
• Objectives: increase regression test coverage, accelerate qualification cycles, reduce costs and timelines, improve test reliability, and measure achieved gains.
• Integration of technological innovations, particularly generative AI and agent platforms.
• Operational steering and technical expertise role for a team of automation engineers, without direct hierarchical management responsibility.
• UI Automation: UFT, Playwright, Selenium
• Mobile Automation: Appium
• API Automation
• Continuous Integration: CI/CD pipelines
• Innovation: Generative AI, agent platforms
• Methodologies: Agile (Scrum / SAFe), V-cycle
• Define and deploy the automation strategy and roadmap for the Domain.
• Identify, qualify, and prioritize applications and scenarios eligible for automation, particularly regression tests.
• Evaluate technical and economic feasibility, define objectives, and measure expected gains.
• Steer automation projects: planning, prioritization, workload tracking, deadlines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate work with stakeholders and provide regular reporting to the Domain Manager.
• Build and maintain steering dashboards (progress, automated coverage, script reliability, productivity gains).
• Prepare and lead presentations to sponsors: achievements, POC results, gains, points of attention, and action plans.
• Design automation architectures and frameworks suitable for application contexts.
• Carry out POCs and develop UI, API, and mobile automation scripts.
• Identify and recommend suitable tools and technologies.
• Challenge technical choices and support automation engineers in their development.
• Ensure the quality, robustness, and maintainability of solutions.
• Define standards and best practices, promote script reuse and industrialization.
• Support the integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Conduct demonstrations for various stakeholders.
• Maintain active monitoring of automation market developments.
• Identify, experiment with, and deploy relevant use cases for AI in the automated testing lifecycle.
• Measure the gains brought by these innovations and support their adoption by the teams.
• Actively participate in the QA / Automation Chapter and contribute to the harmonization of practices.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in software qualification and test management.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in automation, with concrete achievements in UI and API automation.
• Experience with mobile automation.
• Mastery of several market technologies and frameworks, associated languages, and industrialization principles.
• Significant experience in framework design, automation project steering, and technical support for automation teams.
• Mastery of Agile organizations (Scrum / SAFe) and V-cycle projects.
• Immediately operational and technically credible profile, capable of designing, developing, and challenging.
• Fully autonomous, capable of taking ownership of a subject from end to end.
• Natural leadership: ability to convince, challenge, and engage teams.
• Excellent communicator, capable of adapting discourse to technical, functional, business, and decision-making stakeholders.
• Rigorous, reliable, and transparent about commitments.
• Proactive, proposes solutions, and open to innovation.
• Enthusiasm for knowledge transfer and upskilling others.
• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: 92320 Châtillon, France, FR
• Languages: French