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iO Associates are currently partnered with a fast-growing consultancy delivering cutting-edge solutions to Fortune 500 clients, and they're looking for a Principal Test Automation Consultant to lead a greenfield build of a test automation practice.
This is a high-visibility, strategic role - not traditional QA. You'll be responsible for defining the vision, architecture, and roadmap for test automation across a range of modern, distributed applications.
If you enjoy building from scratch, influencing leadership, and creating scalable frameworks that teams adopt globally - this is for you.
What You'll Be Doing
CI/CD pipelines
AWS (Device Farm is a plus)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
iO Associates are currently partnered with a fast-growing consultancy delivering cutting-edge solutions to Fortune 500 clients, and they're looking for a Principal Test Automation Consultant to lead a greenfield build of a test automation practice.
This is a high-visibility, strategic role - not traditional QA. You'll be responsible for defining the vision, architecture, and roadmap for test automation across a range of modern, distributed applications.
If you enjoy building from scratch, influencing leadership, and creating scalable frameworks that teams adopt globally - this is for you.
What You'll Be Doing
- Design and stand up a test automation practice from the ground up
- Define automation strategy, governance, and best practices across global teams
- Architect scalable test frameworks across mobile, web, frontend, and backend systems
- Partner with senior leadership to scope, plan, and deliver automation initiatives
- Work alongside technical leaders to align automation with broader engineering strategy
- Lay the foundation for future hiring and team scale-out
- Experience operating at a Principal / Architect / Practice Lead level
- Proven track record of building or scaling test automation frameworks
- Strong background in automation strategy, not just execution
- Experience working across complex, distributed systems (mobile, web, backend)
- Familiarity with modern engineering environments:
CI/CD pipelines
AWS (Device Farm is a plus)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
- Ability to operate in a consultative, client-facing environment
- Background in consulting or building practices within a consultancy
- Exposure to Golang, Java, or React environments
- Experience working on global / international applications
- Greenfield build - full ownership of strategy and direction
- Work directly with senior technical leadership
- Opportunity to shape a global capability within a growing consultancy