Senior C# Automation Test Lead Bucharest

Senior C# Automation Test Lead
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

Job Description

Your main responsibilities will include:

Team Collaboration & Leadership

• Lead and mentor a team of test engineers, providing technical guidance and career development support
• Coordinate testing efforts across multiple teams to ensure consistent standards and best practices
• Actively participate and lead QA-related discussions in Agile ceremonies (daily
  - ups, sprint planning, retrospectives)
• Foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement within the QA team and broader engineering group

Test Strategy & Planning

• Define and maintain the overall test strategy, plans, and processes for the project or product
• Identify risks and ensure appropriate mitigation strategies are in place
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business requirements and define test coverage
• Plan resource allocation and ensure deadlines are met without compromising quality

Automation & Quality Assurance

• Design, develop, and maintain robust automated test suites using C# and appropriate frameworks (e. g. , NUnit, x
  Unit, Selenium, Spec
  Flow)
• Oversee integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
• Perform code reviews of test scripts and provide constructive feedback
• Ensure
  - quality test deliverables and adherence to coding standards

Testing & Defect Management

• Drive
  -
  - end testing across the software development lifecycle (functional, regression, integration, system, and UAT)
• Ensure accurate and efficient defect reporting, prioritization, and resolution
• Analyze test results, identify trends, and provide recommendations for improvement
• Coordinate with developers and product teams to resolve critical issues promptly

Communication & Reporting

• Serve as the main point of contact for QA status, metrics, and updates to stakeholders
• Report on test progress, quality metrics, and risks to project leadership and product owners
• Align testing efforts with business objectives and product roadmap

We are looking to expand our team with open, thoughtful, and adaptable colleagues who have:

5+ years of experience working in C# (Object Oriented programming, different types of classes, object builders, singleton, Scenario
Context, Page Object model)

10+ years of experience in testing 

Proven experience leading QA teams or mentoring junior testers and automation engineers

Strong communication and collaboration skills to align with
- functional teams (Product, Dev, Dev
Ops, Business Analysts)

Ability to effectively manage stakeholder expectations and report on test status and quality metrics

Experience in setting up or refining QA processes and driving adoption of best practices across teams

Strong analytical and
- solving skills

Open to feedback and new ideas, with a proactive attitude toward learning and adapting

Experience in the creation of automation scripts using Selenium and Specflow

Automation testing experience in both frontend and understanding of the backend

Good knowledge of Selenium is required

Experience in Web Services/API automated testing

Good knowledge of BDD - Specflow is required

Good knowledge of SQL would be a plus (MS SQL)

Knowledge of Azure/AWS Dev
Ops pipelines and YAML pipelines

Nice to have but not mandatory or willing to explore Performance Testing with Gatling