Automation Infrastructure Team Lead (Playwright/TypeScript)

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

Company

Cyera builds a unified security control plane for protecting data, access, and AI-related behaviors in modern enterprises.

What you will do

• Establish and lead a new Automation Infrastructure team.
• Own the architecture, technical vision, and roadmap for cross-product automation frameworks, shared libraries, execution platforms, reporting systems, and self-service capabilities.
• Build scalable automation infrastructure across products, teams, environments, repositories, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Provide reusable components, templates, tools, dashboards, CI/CD integrations, and engineering best practices for QA automation engineers and developers.
• Improve test execution reliability, reduce flakiness, shorten feedback loops, and increase confidence in automation results.
• Define automation KPIs, quality metrics, adoption tracking, reporting cadences, and stakeholder updates.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, QA automation, automation infrastructure, test platform engineering, developer productivity, or a similar technical role.
• 3+ years of experience leading engineers as a Team Lead, Tech Lead, Engineering Manager, Automation Lead, or hands-on technical leader.
• Hands-on experience building scalable automation frameworks, test infrastructure, internal developer platforms, or shared engineering tools used across multiple products and teams.
• Deep expertise with Playwright and TypeScript and/or strong experience with Python and Pytest.
• Strong understanding of automation architecture, CI/CD integration, test execution platforms, debugging, reliability, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
• Strong project leadership, communication, ownership, mentoring, and stakeholder management skills.

Nice to have

• Advanced Playwright experience, including parallel execution, trace collection, and flaky test analysis.
• Background in QA architecture, test strategy, or developer productivity.
• Familiarity with API testing, contract testing, or service virtualization.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on technical leadership within the R&D organization.
• Close collaboration with QA architecture, automation engineering, development, DevOps, product, and engineering leadership.
• Opportunity to build automation capabilities adopted by hundreds of engineers and QA users.
• Focus on reliable, scalable, self-service engineering infrastructure and continuous improvement.