Lead QA Engineer - Remote

Overview

We are looking for a Lead QA with over 7 years of experience in driving quality engineering across fast-paced, product-led environments. This is an individual contributor (IC) heavy role (80% IC, 20% mentoring) designed for someone who’s passionate about building, scaling, and automating robust quality frameworks — not managing people, but mentoring them.

In Short

• Owns testing efforts and feature quality across projects
• Building and maintaining scalable test automation frameworks for different platforms.
• Be the technical anchor for automation efforts; hands-on in building and maintaining frameworks with an automation-first mindset.
• Lead by example — spend the majority of your time hands-on with code, tools, CI/CD pipelines, and testing infra.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and help raise the bar across the quality team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering and product managers to ensure testability and reliability are top-of-mind from day one.
• Bring in performance testing and observability practices to improve user experience at scale.
• Use AI tools and techniques to enhance testing strategies, drive efficiency, and reduce manual effort.
• Proactively identify test gaps, drive process improvements, and bring innovation to how we build and release software.

Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in QA engineering
• Strong background in test automation
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers
• Familiarity with performance testing practices
• Knowledge of AI tools in testing
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent collaboration skills

Benefits

• Opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment
• Chance to mentor and lead junior engineers
• Involvement in innovative testing practices
• Work closely with cross-functional teams