QA Engineering Lead

What we're looking for:

Demonstrated impact: You have taken a team or organization from “tests exist but protect nothing” to automated testing that reliably gates releases — and can show the before/after in numbers: coverage, escaped defects, release cadence, flaky-test rate, or similar.

Cross-platform automation: You have production experience across web, mobile, and desktop, with hands-on depth in at least two and architecture/review-level experience in the third.

• Web: Playwright or equivalent at scale; maintainable architecture, parallelization, and a systematic approach to flaky tests
• Mobile: Maestro, Detox, Appium, or equivalent; release trains, staged rollouts, and reliable device/emulator CI
• Desktop: native applications across Windows/macOS/Linux; visual regression; C++/Qt is a plus

Specific tools are less important than strong engineering fundamentals and the ability to choose the right approach.

Quality & CI/CD: You treat quality as an engineering metric. You’ve established baselines, tracked meaningful trends, and validated that tests actually detect defects — through mutation testing or equivalent practices. You have operated large automated suites as real CI/CD gates, including required checks, branch protection, reliability, and feedback-speed trade-offs.

AI-assisted engineering: You have hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding and test generation (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) and a clear point of view on when generated tests provide real protection versus simply inflating coverage.

Leadership: You grow engineers without needing line authority. You can point to people who became stronger automation engineers through your coaching. You can defend quality decisions with data and trade-offs, including knowing when to stop a release and when the risk is acceptable.

English: Upper-Intermediate