QA Automation Lead

At Trella Health, we are passionate and committed to our mission: empowering meaningful change in healthcare. Since our founding in 2015, we continue to grow our team, enhance our solution and services offerings, accelerate into new markets, and expand our customer base. We are rapidly growing and are looking for new Trellavators to join our team!

“What is a Trellavator?” you ask. Innovate and elevate is the name of our game! We go above and beyond to collaborate with and support each other. We believe that when a colleague or customers succeeds, we succeed. By learning from others, building on our successes, and taking risks, we constantly raise the bar. After all, continuous improvement is in our DNA. Our word is paramount, we keep our commitments, and we always follow through. We have a strong, reliable support system that fuels growth, collaboration, and passion—and together, we create a positive environment where everyone at Trella Health, including the customers we support, can thrive. Are you ready to learn more about the opportunities with our team? Trell-yeah you are!

Position Overview:

We are seeking a hands-on QA Automation Lead to evaluate, improve, and scale our existing Playwright-based automation framework across UI, API, and data testing — with mobile automation on the future roadmap. The ideal candidate brings deep technical experience, takes clear ownership, and can assess what exists today, identify what needs to change, and drive the program forward.The initial focus of this role will be assessing the current automation landscape, improving API automation reliability and coverage, expanding UI automation, and establishing clear automation health metrics.

Location: This is a hybrid role with 1 day a week in our Atlanta office.

Reports to: Director, Quality Assurance

As the QA Automation Lead at Trella, you will:

• Automation Strategy & Leadership
  • Define and own the automation roadmap — establish standards, quality gates, coverage goals, and success metrics across UI, API, and data validation.
  • Partner with QA, Engineering, Product, and DevOps to align automation efforts with business priorities and release objectives.
  • Provide accurate, timely reporting on automation coverage, execution health, and release readiness that can be independently validated and relied upon by leadership; communicate risks and remediation plans proactively.
  • Create and maintain strategy documents, architecture diagrams, onboarding guides, and runbooks; lead knowledge transfer to reduce key-person dependency.
  • Mentor QA team members contributing to automation efforts.
• Hands-On Automation Engineering
  • Critically evaluate the existing Playwright framework — assess architecture, coverage, test quality, and reliability — and execute a clear improvement plan.
  • Contribute to, maintain, and evolve the framework; design scalable, reusable solutions that support long-term growth.
  • Define and enforce coding standards, framework conventions, and automation best practices.
  • Build and maintain comprehensive coverage across UI, API, and data validation — including endpoint validation, functional workflow testing, negative testing, and regression.
• CI/CD & Operations
  • Own the operational health of the automation program, including execution reliability, failure triage, and remediation planning.
  • Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and release workflows; ensure suites execute consistently and provide actionable feedback.
  • Monitor automation health, investigate failures, and drive improvements to execution stability and pass rates.
  • Maintain dashboards and KPIs that give leadership…