Job Description
Lead Quality Automation Engineer
Role SummaryWe are looking for a hands-on Lead Quality Automation Engineer to own and drive Quality Strategy for enterprise products.
This role combines strong technical automation expertise with leadership responsibilities, including defining and implementing Quality Strategy, mentoring QEs, and influencing release quality decisions.
The candidate is expected to contribute actively to coding (40–60%) while providing technical and strategic direction to the QA function.
Key Responsibilities- Define and implement end-to-end Quality Strategy across UI, API, and non-functional layers.
- Establish automation roadmap and quality KPIs.
- Establish and enforce a Test Pyramid model, ensuring optimal balance across unit, API, integration, and UI automation.
- Drive shift-left practices and increase automation coverage at lower layers.
- Define and track QA KPIs (automation coverage, defect leakage, regression stability).
- Drive release readiness reviews and risk assessments.
- Influence engineering teams to adopt quality best practices.
- Architect and implement/modify scalable automation frameworks using Java / Advanced Java.
- Good hands-on knowledge of integrating automation tests in CI/CD pipelines.
- Implement / Knowledge of contract testing using OpenAPI/Swagger.
- Mentor and review automation engineers’ code.
- Provide technical guidance and framework standards.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and DevOps stakeholders.
- Leverage AI-assisted tools (e.g., Copilot) to enhance development efficiency.
- Hands-on knowledge of prompting techniques to improve automation productivity.
- Strong proficiency in Java & Advanced Java
- Hands-on experience with Selenium automation framework
- REST API automation using RestAssured / HttpClient
- Strong understanding of JSON, HTTP protocols, and status codes
- SQL/database validation
- Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD integration (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins)
- Experience tracking QA KPIs and quality dashboards (e.g., Grafana)
- Agile/Scrum experience
AI & Engineering Productivity
- Hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot or similar).
- Ability to craft effective prompts to generate, refactor, and optimize automation code.
- Experience validating and refining AI-generated outputs to ensure accuracy, maintainability, and security.
- Demonstrated ability to improve engineering productivity using AI tools.
- 10+ years in QA with significant automation experience
- Proven hands-on framework development experience
- Ability to contribute 40–60% in active coding
- Demonstrated leadership in driving quality initiatives
To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we’re getting to know you—not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.
Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.
Skills Required
- Strong proficiency in Java & Advanced Java
- Hands-on experience with Selenium automation framework
- REST API automation using RestAssured / HttpClient
- Strong understanding of JSON, HTTP protocols, and status codes
- SQL/database validation
- Hands-on knowledge of CI/CD integration
- Experience tracking QA KPIs and quality dashboards
- Agile/Scrum experience
- 10+ years in QA with significant automation experience
- Proven hands-on framework development experience
Wolters Kluwer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Wolters Kluwer and has not been reviewed or approved by Wolters Kluwer.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time away benefits are positioned as broad, spanning vacation and sick time plus paid holidays and other covered leave types. Paid parental and caregiver leave, bereavement leave, and a volunteer day contribute to a more comprehensive time-off offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is framed as meaningful through access to a 401(k)/retirement plan paired with company matching and additional contribution features in some descriptions. This is reinforced by mentions of profit sharing and other long-term savings-oriented programs.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-oriented support stands out through adoption assistance and paid parental leave provisions. These benefits are described alongside other caregiver supports that extend beyond basic leave categories.
Wolters Kluwer Insights
What We Do
Wolters Kluwer (www.wolterskluwer.com) is a global leader in information services and solutions for professionals in the health, tax and accounting, risk and compliance, finance and legal sectors. We help our customers make critical decisions every day by providing expert solutions that combine deep domain knowledge with specialized technology and services. Founded in 1836 and headquartered in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands, the company serves customers in over 180 countries, maintains operations in over 40 countries and employs 18,600 people worldwide. Wolters Kluwer reported 2019 annual revenues of €4.6 billion. Listed on Euronext Amsterdam, Wolters Kluwer shares (WKL) are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices. Wolters Kluwer has a sponsored Level 1 American Depositary Receipt program. The ADRs are traded on the over-the-counter market in the U.S. (WTKWY).
