QA AEM Automation Lead

Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Architecture: Architect, build, and maintain scalable QA automation frameworks using Playwright or Selenium tailored for web UI and API testing.
AEM Functional Testing: Perform end-to-end automation and manual validation on AEM authoring interfaces (Sites, DAM, Experience Fragments) and published web pages.
API Testing: Design, build, and execute automated API test suites (REST / GraphQL) to validate backend services and content integration using Postman, REST Assured, or Playwright API modules.
Team Leadership: Mentor and lead a team of QA engineers, assign tasks, conduct code reviews, establish test standards, and track overall delivery metrics.
Integration & Delivery: Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps) to enable continuous testing in shift-left delivery models.
Quality Governance: Establish QA best practices, bug triage workflows in Jira, test coverage criteria, and release reporting dashboards for stakeholders.
Required Qualifications & Skills
Experience: 7–10 years of total software QA/Automation experience with hands-on experience testing AEM platforms.
Programming Languages: Proficiency in Java, JavaScript, or TypeScript for test framework development and scripting.
Automation Engineering: Hands-on expertise with Playwright and Selenium WebDriver for UI automation.
API Automation: Proficient in testing RESTful APIs and backend services using Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent API test libraries.
AEM Validation: Strong background validating content creation workflows, components, authoring interfaces, DAM, and published sites.
Process & Delivery: Demonstrated ability to craft end-to-end test strategies, risk assessments, and coverage matrices within Agile environments using Git and Jira.
Excellent Communication Skills
Exposure to cross-browser and cross-device cloud platforms (BrowserStack).
Basic knowledge of accessibility testing or performance testing tools (JMeter, k6).