Lead Automation Engineer

Lead Automation Engineer Location: Building No: 12C, Floor 9,10,11, Building No: 12B -Stilt floor, Raheja Mindspace, Cyberabad, Madhapur, Hyderabad - 500081, Telangana, India Job Title – Lead Automation Engineer Preferred Location - Hyderabad, India Full time/Part Time - Full Time Build a career with confidence Carrier Global Corporation, global leader in intelligent climate and energy solutions is committed to creating solutions that matter for people and our planet for generations to come. From the beginning, we've led in inventing new technologies and entirely new industries. Today, we continue to lead because we have a world-class, diverse workforce that puts the customer at the center of everything we do. Summary: QA Automation Engineer to support Carrier’s largest and most strategic customers. In this role, you will design and implement automation solutions while also performing hands-on testing to ensure the quality, reliability, and resilience of our cloud products and platforms. You will work across front-end, API, and cloud services—combining automated and manual testing approaches—to validate scalable, production-grade systems and user interfaces. Responsibilities: Design, build, and maintain a custom QA automation stack for new and existing projects. · Perform hands-on manual testing, including exploratory, regression, and release validation testing, where automation is not yet available or appropriate. · Define and evangelize standards and best practices for manual, integration, UI, and performance testing. · Collaborate with developers during feature design to ensure testability, acceptance criteria clarity, and early defect discovery. · Integrate automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines and cloud execution environments. Key Sills: · 4+ years’ hands on experience in AWS cloud native environment with EC2, Automated Scaling Groups, Lambda, AWS Batch, CloudWatch, S3, RDS and CloudFormation. · 3+ years of experience designing and building automation frameworks using Python or JavaScript, including CI/CD integration and cloud-hosted execution. · 3+ experience with UI and integration test frameworks like Playwright or Slenenium. · Proven experience with manual testing techniques, including exploratory testing, test case design, regression testing, and defect triage using agile tools like Jira and Xray. · 2+ experience with performance and load testing tools like Locust. · 1+ year of hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted development or testing tools (e.g., Claude, OpenAI, Copilot). OTHER COMPETENCIES: Demonstrate sustained initiative, proven ability to work independently and take on complex tasks with minimal direction Solid creativity and innovation Ability to understand issues, debugging issues and take appropriate action Strong English communication skills - oral and written. Ability to adapt quickly to an existing, complex environment. Ability to quickly learn new concepts and software is necessary. Passionate about building high-quality systems. Benefits: We are committed to offering competitive benefits programs for all of our employees and enhancing our programs when necessary. Have peace of mind and body with our health insurance Make yourself a priority with flexible schedules and leave Policy Drive forward your career through professional development opportunities Achieve your personal goals with our Employee Assistance Program. Our commitment to you Our greatest assets are the expertise, creativity and passion of our employees. We strive to provide a great place to work that attracts, develops and retains the best talent, promotes employee engagement, fosters teamwork and ultimately drives innovation for the benefit of our customers. We strive to create an environment where you feel that you belong, with diversity and inclusion as the engine to growth and innovation. We develop and deploy best-in-class programs and practices, providing enriching career opportunities, listening to employee feedback and always challenging ourselves to do better. This is The Carrier Way. Join us and make a difference. Apply Now ! Carrier is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class. Job Applicant's Privacy Notice: Click on this link to read the Job Applicant's Privacy Notice