Lead Automation Engineer

Get to know the Team:

The Automation Platform team is responsible for developing tools that help engineers design, write, maintain and monitor their test automation. A bunch of highly passionate software engineers who love collaborating with multiple delivery teams and building innovative, scalable and available tools

Get to know the Role:

As an Engineering Lead, leading the Automation Platform team at Grab means leading a world-class team of software engineers in their mission to deliver the best possible software tools for enabling automation at Grab.

• Lead the team to help build the vision for the future

• You will plan, design, execute and maintain Grab’s:

  • core backend test automation platform

  • core simulation platform

  • tools/platforms needed for testing the backend  

• Hands-on programming and technical design skills with demonstrated willingness and capability to learn new automation designs/patterns/techniques quickly

• 6-10 years engineering management experience

• Demonstrated ability to design, build and deliver complex, successful engineering systems or products efficiently and with high quality

• Proven team leadership, interpersonal skills, and ability to get things done

• Ability to clearly communicate high level strategy and technical details effectively across disciplines, locations, and organizations, including to senior leadership

• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and build a sense of urgency in a dynamic environment

The Day-to-Day Activities:

• Collaborate with product, engineering and platform teams and implement the right quality engineering methods

• Own the E2E quality of the features developed and sign-off timely with high quality

• Drive team to build and maintain automation frameworks and automate test cases from UI (for FE) and API (for BE) to improve engineering efficiency 

• Recruit, interview, and close top talent

• Mentor and coach engineers in the team

• Work closely with the leadership team to define quality engineering strategy

• Drive feature development of test automation tools in sprints, evangelize agile methodologies to deliver on continuous iterations to support our customers

Requirements:

• Bachelor degree in computer science or equivalent work experience

• Experience as a successful software leader

• Strive for best-in-class automation platforms and test code. Deliver readable, maintainable and robust automation code that helps drive engineer productivity up

• Strong understanding of common software development and delivery methodologies; experienced in tdd, bdd, agile, CI/CD etc.

• Working experience with one or more development languages and frameworks; Java, Javascript, GoLang, Selenium Webdriver, Webdriver.io, ReactJS, API-Testing etc.

• Proven ability to make smart feature versus time-to-market trade-offs; experience using data and metrics to back up assertions of business value

• Working experience with different framework types like Data Driven, Keyword Driven, Hybrid automation frameworks for API (Service & E2E), Mobile and Web automation

• Strong bias for action; ability to juggle multiple priorities and build a sense of urgency in a dynamic environment

Nice to Have:

• Framework and Automation Platform infrastructure building experience

• Good understanding of latest API, mobile and web automation tools & technologies