QA Automation Lead
CodeRoad · Riverside, CA
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Jul 26, 2026
Riverside, CA
Jul 27, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior quality engineering role focused on transitioning an organization away from manual testing toward a mature, automated framework covering web, mobile, and API layers. Day-to-day work spans designing and building test automation frameworks, integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines, conducting hands-on manual and exploratory testing during the transition, and mentoring QA team members. Suited to an experienced QA professional with a strong automation background who is comfortable in a technical leadership capacity.
Senior level · 6+ years · Remote · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 2,050 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software quality assurance analysts and testers). range 1,250–3,700
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (8)
This role is based in Latin America and is fully remote; the US-based flag is set to false as the primary work location is outside the United States, though the contractor model is USD-compensated and serves US clients.
The title 'QA Automation Lead' carries no explicit seniority level word, so the title states no level; however, the 6+ years requirement and technical lead/transformation scope support a Senior classification.
The posting lists Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, and WebdriverIO as interchangeable options for the core automation framework requirement — Playwright is listed first and the others are captured as alternatives.
Similarly, Postman, Swagger, and Charles Proxy are presented as interchangeable manual API testing tools; Jira, TestRail, and Zephyr are presented as interchangeable test management tools.
CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI), performance tools (k6, JMeter, Gatling), mobile automation (Appium, Detox), and Docker all appear under the 'Nice to Have' section.
Compensation is described only as 'Competitive USD compensation' with no figures provided, so no comp range is emitted.
The engagement is described as a 'USA Contractor model', so employment type is set to Contract.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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