About The Role
We are building an AI-first product and engineering organization with rapid delivery cycles, a strong automation culture, and a modern TypeScript/Next.js-based stack.We are looking for a
QA Lead
who is deeply technical, automation-first, and able to own the quality discipline end-to-end: test architecture, automation strategy, exploratory testing, reliability, and release readiness.This is
not
a manual QA role — this is a
technical leadership position
.
Responsibilities
Test Automation Strategy & Architecture
- Own and design the end-to-end test automation framework.
- Maintain stable, deterministic E2E test suites.
- Ensure critical user flows have robust automation coverage.
- Define and evolve the automation architecture (fixtures, mocks, selectors, utilities, data setup).
Quality Involvement in Product & Engineering Process
- Review product requirements and expand them into clear, testable scenarios.
- Identify edge cases, negative flows, and missing states early.
- Validate prototypes and UX flows before development begins.
- Ensure quality is built into the design, not added after.
Testing Execution (Strategy & Leadership)
- Define the overall testing strategy across E2E, API, integration, and exploratory layers.
- Define a balanced and efficient test pyramid.
- Build and maintain the E2E automation suite.
- Lead exploratory testing for usability, edge cases, and cross-flow scenarios.
- Validate UI behavior and flows against Product Design specs.
- Partner with backend and frontend engineers for proper API and integration test coverage.
- Identify, document, and prioritize quality risks across the system.
Collaboration
- Work closely with FE/BE engineers on test placement and coverage.
- Maintain test data strategy and mocking/stubbing layers.
- Coach engineers to write stable, maintainable tests.
- Partner with Product Design to define clear, testable selectors and states.
Release Quality & Reliability
- Approve release readiness for major deployments.
- Monitor, investigate, and reduce flaky tests.
- Improve reliability of test pipelines and CI tooling.
- Continuously enhance the stability of the release process.
Key Qualifications
Must-Have
- 4+ years of QA/QE experience, heavily focused on automation.
- Strong experience with Playwright or Cypress (or similar modern JS automation tools).
- Solid TypeScript/JavaScript skills.
- Experience building or maintaining E2E test frameworks.
- Understanding of modern frontend architecture (React/Next.js).
- Understanding of REST APIs, backend flows, and integration patterns.
- Hands-on experience in fast, iterative release environments.
- Practical experience using AI tooling in QA (e.g., AI-assisted test generation, test impact analysis, AI-based exploratory testing, or GPT/Claude/Copilot workflows).
Bonus
- Experience leading QA in AI-driven or automation-first organizations.
- Experience designing test impact analysis, selective test execution pipelines, or quality risk models.
- Experience establishing QA standards in startups or high-velocity engineering teams.
- Experience optimizing CI/CD for large test suites (parallelism, caching, orchestration).
What Success Looks Like
- Critical flows are fully automated and consistently stable.
- Release cycles run smoothly with minimal QA friction.
- Flaky tests are proactively reduced and eliminated.
- Engineers follow your automation practices and quality standards.
- Product & Engineering teams benefit from early QA involvement.
- The overall product becomes more predictable, reliable, and testable.
