Head of Quality Engineering
We’re looking for a Head of Quality Engineering to raise the bar for quality across our web, mobile, and desktop products.
This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can shape a scalable quality engineering strategy, drive meaningful test automation, and turn quality into a measurable engineering discipline. You’ll work across teams, influence engineering decisions, and build processes and systems that help quality scale beyond the QA team. We’re looking for someone with strong technical expertise who can set the direction, guide implementation, and make informed trade-offs rather than being responsible for day-to-day hands-on execution.
We are actively integrating AI and automation into all areas of the business and are looking for candidates with a mindset focused on improving efficiency, automating repetitive processes, and delivering a better user experience.
Key responsibilities
Required experience
Proven impact: You have a track record of taking teams or organizations from having tests that provide limited protection to implementing automated testing that reliably gates releases. You can demonstrate the impact with measurable results, such as improved coverage, fewer escaped defects, faster release cycles, reduced flaky-test rates, or similar metrics.
Cross-platform automation: You have production experience across web, mobile, and desktop, with hands-on expertise in at least two and architecture or review-level experience in the third.
- Web: Playwright or equivalent at scale, with experience designing maintainable test architecture, parallelizing test execution, and systematically addressing flaky tests.
- Mobile: Maestro, Detox, Appium, or equivalent, with experience supporting release trains, staged rollouts, and reliable device/emulator CI.
- Desktop: Native applications across Windows, macOS, or Linux. Experience with visual regression testing is a plus; C++/Qt experience is an advantage.
Quality & CI/CD: You treat quality as an engineering metric. You have established quality baselines, tracked meaningful trends, and validated that automated tests effectively detect defects through mutation testing or equivalent practices. You have operated large automated test suites as real CI/CD gates, balancing required checks, branch protection, test reliability, and feedback speed.
AI-assisted engineering: You have hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding and test generation using tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar. You understand where AI-generated tests provide meaningful protection and where they may simply increase coverage without improving confidence.
Leadership: You can grow and mentor engineers without relying on formal line-management authority. You have helped other engineers develop stronger automation skills and can demonstrate this impact. You are comfortable defending quality decisions using data and clearly articulating trade-offs, including when to block a release and when the level of risk is acceptable.
English: Upper-Intermediate or higher.
Benefits
Muse Group empowers music makers
We create the worldʼs most popular apps for playing, recording and composing music. Through our innovative learning tools, expansive music catalogs and free open-source software, we make it easier for millions — from beginners to experienced musicians — to be creative every day. Our talented team of music lovers collaborates all over the globe, from Limassol to Seoul and Boston to Berlin.
We’re an ambitious company with the drive and culture of a startup — with many more exciting Muse Group developments to come. Hal Leonard, which joined Muse Group in 2023, is the world leader in sheet music publishing and music education. The company has a storied history of providing music learners with the very best methods and arrangements of popular music for over 70 years. Hal Leonard is also a major distributor of popular brands of instruments, gear, and software to the music trade worldwide.
