Quality Assurance Lead

BrightEdge is a global leader in enterprise SEO and content performance solutions, driving AI-powered digital marketing success for the world's top brands. Our culture is product-first, innovation-driven, and built for those passionate about building exceptional technology that empowers results at scale.

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled QA Lead - an individual who thrives in a fast-paced, product-led environment. You'll play a key part in developing scalable, performant web applications and infrastructure powering BrightEdge's next-generation digital products.

Responsibilities:

• Own and define the test strategy for features, releases, and systems across multiple teams.
• Lead manual and automated testing efforts to ensure high product quality.
• Mentor, guide, and grow a team of QA engineers through technical and process coaching.
• Collaborate closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and DevOps to ensure alignment on quality goals.
• Drive release readiness, including regression, performance, and production validation testing.
• Manage the QA effort across weekly/bi-weekly release cadences, ensuring fast feedback loops.
• Identify and cover edge cases (e.g., time zones, Unicode, scaling boundaries) early in the lifecycle.
• Work with automation engineers to improve CI/CD pipeline integration and coverage.
• Proactively identify quality risks and own mitigation planning.
• Lead root cause analyses of production issues and drive systemic improvements.
• Report key quality metrics (e.g., defect leakage, automation coverage, flaky tests) to stakeholders.
• Champion continuous improvement in QA processes, tools, and test architecture.
• Participate in agile ceremonies, sprint planning, and release retrospectives.
• Promote a strong customer-first quality mindset across engineering.
• Encourage self-learning within the QA team and stay current with modern QA tools and methodologies.

Qualifications:

• 8+ years of professional experience with recent 2-3+ years as a Lead.
• Strong experience in web application and API testing.
• Solid automation experience for API and Selenium using Python/Java.
• Experience working in a startup or scale-up environment.
• Proficiency in writing MySQL/SQL queries, logs, and Linux debugging.
• Experience working in agile teams with fast release cycles.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfortable working with distributed teams and across time zones.

What's in it for you

• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and help shape the roadmap of a recognized SaaS leader.
• Experience a startup culture backed by global scale, rapid learning, and career progression is the norm.
• Competitive compensation, flexible remote-first work, and a collaborative, high-impact team environment.
• Access to continuous learning and growth opportunities within a world-class engineering team.

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