Brightflag is an intuitive AI-powered ELM platform with e-billing, matter management, and vendor management capabilities designed for in-house legal teams. Backed by 500 Global.
About the role
We are seeking a Lead Software Test Automation Engineer to define and lead an enterprise-grade test automation strategy across UI, API, data, integration, and platform layers while evolving our quality engineering capabilities for AI and agentic systems. This role will design and scale automation frameworks, establish measurable quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic product behavior, and drive reliable, maintainable automation that accelerates delivery. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of software quality engineering or test automation experience, including significant ownership of automation frameworks, technical design, and strategy for complex commercial software
- Hands-on experience designing and building scalable automation across API, contract, integration, UI, data, and end-to-end layers
- Strong programming skills in at least one modern language such as Java, Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, or C#
- Hands-on experience with modern UI and API automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, REST Assured, SuperTest, Postman/Newman, or pytest
- Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD using platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps, including automated quality gates and release-readiness criteria
- Demonstrated ability to improve test reliability and execution speed through engineering solutions, including reducing flakiness, parallelization, test selection, and effective diagnostics
More about this role
We are seeking a Lead Software Test Automation Engineer to define and lead an enterprise-grade test automation strategy across UI, API, data, integration, and platform layers while evolving our quality engineering capabilities for AI and agentic systems. This role will design and scale automation frameworks, establish measurable quality gates for deterministic and non-deterministic product behavior, and drive reliable, maintainable automation that accelerates delivery. The engineer will define validation approaches for probabilistic AI outcomes, including evaluation datasets, threshold- and rubric-based validation, groundedness, regression detection, robustness, performance, and reliability, while embedding automation into CI/CD and production-quality practices.
Essential Duties and responsibilities
- Define and own the test automation technical design and risk-based, multi-layer strategy across UI, API, contract, component, integration, end-to-end, data, and platform testing.
- Establish automation standards, patterns, and reference implementations covering framework structure, coding practices, reusable components, test data, diagnostics, reporting, and maintainability.
- Drive...
Browse similar: AI jobs · AI startup jobs · Startup jobs