Test Manager Automation - Automation Architecht

• Establish automation goals, KPIs, and success metrics.
• Create automation roadmaps aligned with retail business priorities.
• Identify automation opportunities across applications and processes.
• Drive automation maturity across teams.
• Promote shift-left and continuous testing practices
• Prepare automation test strategy and test plans.
• Estimate effort, resources, and execution timelines.
• Plan regression testing cycles.
• Prioritize automation based on business risk and ROI.
• Mentor and coach automation team members.
• Identify skill gaps and drive training programs.
• Track automation coverage and execution metrics.
• Monitor automation development progress.
• Resolve technical and project-level blockers.
• Ensure on-time delivery of automation assets.
• Drive execution readiness before releases.

BE and MTech and at least have done Test Mananagement of 2-3 automation projects.

Excellent communication skills

Test Management for Automation Project

Stakeholder Management

Lead the evaluation, proof of concept, recommendation, and implementation of a new client test automation solution

Lead client discovery to understand automation objectives, workflows, constraints, users, maintenance expectations, evidence needs, and operating model.

Define evaluation criteria and a consistent scoring model for candidate tools and architecture options.

Design and lead focused proofs of concept using representative API and UI scenarios, success measures, and decision gates

Strong framework design, modularity, reusability, parameterization, maintainability, standards, and review practices. 

Strong experience with Playwright, Selenium,UFT, Cypress, or a comparable framework.