Quality Assurance Lead

Get started on an exciting career at Element! Element employees make a difference in the lives of others every day. We are re-defining the fleet management industry to be people first, then business – delivering on our promise of a superior client experience. This takes hard work and innovation, and we need more like-minded people on our team. Build in-house QA automation capability that strengthens quality, delivery control, and knowledge continuity. THE OPPORTUNITY This role helps strengthen Element's in-house quality assurance capability and reduce long-term dependency on external vendors. As Lead, Quality Assurance (Automation), you will provide hands-on QA automation expertise and governance across multiple projects, helping retain critical system and process knowledge within the organization while improving control over quality and delivery outcomes. You will work across development, product, business, and QA teams to establish automation practices, improve test coverage, and support release readiness. WHAT YOU WILL OWN Set and apply automation quality guiding principles across projects, helping establish consistent QA automation practices and governance. Lead and guide QA automation team members across projects, helping them act as liaisons within their teams and spread automation best practices. Review and support automation test plans, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing guidelines, and provide training to team members with varying levels of experience. Design and architect test automation frameworks and develop new automation libraries leveraging Selenium, while making decisions on framework upgrades and emerging technologies. Implement automated testing across work streams to improve the overall testing cycle and provide progress materials, including spreadsheets, presentations, graphs, and other reporting requested by project managers or IT leadership. Contribute hands-on manual QA activities, including test case creation, execution, defect management, and development of test strategies, plans, and test cases based on product features and specifications. Partner with developers, UI/UX, product managers, and product owners to clarify system test requirements, identify and track defects, and share quality dashboards. Develop and improve testing processes for existing products, recommend software quality improvements, and support release readiness for features and integrations. YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS ROLE IF: You bring deep hands-on QA automation experience, strong technical judgement, and the ability to guide others while remaining actively involved in delivery. You have a bachelor's degree in an IT- or computer-related field. You bring at least six to eight years of experience in automation and manual testing. You have at least four to five years of experience with Robot Framework, Python, Jenkins, Git, Azure, and Datadog or New Relic. You have a solid background…