Automation Test Lead (Houston, TX, 77086) | 10/12/26

Job Description Job Title:

Automation Test Lead

Houston TX - Day 1 onsite.

Duration:

Longterm Contract Role Summary This role owns delivery for a QA managed services organization supporting a Sustainability Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) platform. The person in this seat runs a multi-project team spanning functional testing, automation, and data validation, and is accountable for SLAs, quality metrics, staffing, and client governance across the account. The role blends people leadership, hands-on technical direction across automation and data platforms, and domain depth in energy/sustainability trading and emissions workflows.

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  Delivery and people leadership — SLAs, governance cadence, staffing, escalations
  
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  Automation testing — Playwright/Selenium/TOSCA, CI/CD, API validation
  
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  Snowflake — SQL validation, ETL/pipeline reconciliation
  
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  Power BI — dashboard and report accuracy validation tied back to Snowflake data
  
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  Sustainability ETRM domain — trade/position/settlement concepts plus emissions and ESG reporting workflows
  Delivery & People Leadership
  
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  Run a QA Lead services organization covering functional testing, automation, and data validation practice areas.
  
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  Own commitments and SLAs, staffing and capacity planning, budgets, and quality standards for the account.
  
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  Run the governance cadence: weekly project reviews with leads, monthly quality/metrics reviews, and quarterly business reviews with client stakeholders.
  
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  Track defect leakage, test coverage, automation pass rates, and cycle time; act on adverse trends before they become client escalations.
  
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  Own escalations end-to-end, from first signal through root cause and corrective action plan.
  
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  Forecast staffing demand a quarter ahead and reallocate people across projects as priorities shift.
  
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  Support presales and scope expansion with effort estimates, staffing models, and test approach.
  Automation & Test Strategy
  
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  Set technical direction for automation and continuous testing across the portfolio.
  
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  Own test strategy, test planning, test case design, test data setup, defect management, and configuration management.
  
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  Maintain and grow automated regression coverage using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, and/or TOSCA.
  
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  Run performance, load, and non-functional testing (e.g., JMeter) where required.
  
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  Validate

REST/SOAP

APIs and integrate automated checks into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

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  Manage source control, branching, and pull request workflows in GitHub.
  
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  Work with AWS-hosted environments for test execution and data validation (e.

g., S3, EC2, Lambda, or equivalent services depending on the platform's architecture).

Data Validation:

Snowflake & Power BI

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  Write and review SQL-based validation queries against Snowflake to confirm data accuracy, completeness, and consistency across source and downstream systems.
  
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  Validate ETL/ELT pipelines feeding Snowflake, including reconciliation between source systems and the warehouse.
  
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  Review and validate Power BI reports and dashboards for data accuracy, ensuring metrics tie back to underlying Snowflake data.
  
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  Design and enforce value-level and null checks across data pipelines, not just field-existence checks.

Domain:

Sustainability & ETRM

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  Apply working knowledge of Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) concepts: trade capture, positions, settlements, and risk reporting.
  
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  Understand sustainability and emissions-reporting workflows (e.g., emissions monitoring, carbon accounting, ESG data flows) well enough to define acceptance criteria and test coverage without hand-holding from subject matter experts.
  
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  Translate business and regulatory reporting requirements into test scenarios that catch real data and calculation errors.
  AI-Assisted Testing
  
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  Set standards for how AI coding/testing tools are used in delivery: what can be AI-generated, what always requires human review, and what stays off the tools entirely.
  
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  Own quality checks on AI-generated test artifacts to ensure they validate actual business logic and data correctness.

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