Overview
Automation Team Lead Jobs in Center District, Israel at Gotfriends
Title: Automation Team Lead
Company: Gotfriends
Location: Center District, Israel
An award-winning Industrial AI pioneer developing an autonomous manufacturing platform that transforms global production lines.
By deploying advanced smart manufacturing recommendation systems and decision-support engines, the company processes massive streams of industrial sensor data to minimize operational overhead, maximize efficiency, and drive predictive optimizations.
The company maintains an elite R&D workforce of 65 professionals, scaling its innovative footprint across global industrial sectors.
Located in Center District, within short walking distance of the train station, the team operates primarily on-site to maintain tight cross-functional innovation, offering a structured hybrid model.
Position Overview
- QA & Automation Lead serving as the ultimate quality authority for the entire product portfolio, establishing end-to-end (E2E) testing strategies from scratch.
- Operating initially as a highly strategic, Hands-On solo function with the long-term vision and path to recruit, build, and lead a dedicated quality engineering team as the company scales.
- Designing and executing comprehensive Black-Box and White-Box testing methodologies across a complex hardware-software integrated ecosystem that spans cloud networks, web interfaces, backend microservices, and edge computing units deployed on industrial machinery.
- Architecting, scaling, and maintaining robust automation frameworks using Python, while seamlessly integrating quality gates and regression pipelines into modern CI/CD lifecycles.
- Partnering cross-functionally with Core Software, AI, Data Science, Product, and DevOps squads to champion continuous quality benchmarks and leverage AI-driven tools to optimize testing efficiency.
- Core Stack & Ecosystem- Python, Pytest, Manual & Automated QA Methodologies, CI/CD Integration, Quality Gates, Black-Box & White-Box Testing, Web & Backend APIs, Cloud Infrastructure, Edge Computing, and Distributed Systems.
Requirements-
- Significant, proven professional experience executing comprehensive Quality Assurance architectures for complex, data-heavy, or multi-layered software products – Mandatory
- Demonstrated leadership capability, with a background managing QA teams, heading quality initiatives, or driving organizational QA processes – Mandatory
- Deep, hands-on mastery of Python along with advanced automated testing frameworks (e.g., Pytest) – Mandatory
- Balanced expertise combining high-level automated architecture design with meticulous manual testing workflows, test plan creation, and deep-dive troubleshooting – Mandatory
- Solid technical experience validating complex web applications, backend services, distributed systems, or API layers – Mandatory
- Prior experience testing hardware-software integration, cloud-to-edge communication protocols, or IoT/sensor-driven systems – Significant Advantage
