Tech Lead

Role: SDE / SSDE / Tech Lead

Experience: 6+ years

Location: Remote

SDLC

Key Responsibilities

Testing Strategy & Quality Engineering

• Define and drive a holistic test strategy across unit, integration, contract, performance, and system-level testing.
• Champion a shift-left, developer-owned quality mindset from design through release.
• Partner with engineering teams to improve code testability and reduce defects through proactive feedback.
• Promote advanced testing practices such as Specification by Example, contract testing, and property-based testing.
• Lead quality engineering initiatives across

  Java, Node.js, PHP, React, and mobile platforms.

Test Infrastructure & Tooling

• Architect and build scalable, reusable automation frameworks in

  Java, Node.js, or PHP.

• Create developer-friendly test harnesses, mock APIs, and in-memory services for local and CI testing.
• Develop

  DSLs,

  test fixtures, and dynamic test scenario tooling to accelerate test coverage.
• Ensure seamless integration with

  CI/CD

  systems, optimizing for speed, feedback, and observability.
• Drive test observability with detailed failure traceability across distributed systems.

Developer Enablement

• Provide self-service local test environments that mirror CI and production with a single command.
• Build APIs, libraries, and utilities enabling deterministic, reproducible test states.
• Lead by example—writing high-quality test code, mocks, and fixture-driven tests.
• Develop sandbox environments for safe experimentation with edge cases, performance, and resilience testing.

Leadership & Practice Development

• Mentor engineers in

  TDD, BDD,

  mocking strategies, and advanced test design.
• Champion a culture where quality is a shared engineering responsibility.
• Lead deep-dives, workshops, and retrospectives focused on test architecture and system health.
• Collaborate with

  DevOps, Product, and Architecture

  teams to shape test infrastructure and deployment pipelines.

What We’re Looking For

Technical Skills

• Strong coding expertise in at least one language:

  Java, Node.js, or PHP (others are a plus).

• Proven track record building test frameworks, developer tools, or testing libraries.
• Experience with

  REST API testing

  , contract testing, and service virtualization.
• Hands-on with tools like

  JUnit, TestNG, Jest, Cypress, Playwright, Appium, or WireMock.

• Familiarity with mocking frameworks, controlled data generation,

  CI/CD

  pipelines, and containerized environments

  (Docker, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).

Leadership & Collaboration

• Ability to influence system design and architecture for testability and observability.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration with engineering,

  DevOps

  , and product teams.
• Experience mentoring engineers, driving best practices, and scaling quality processes.

What Success Looks Like

• Fast, reliable test environments empower developers to test early and with confidence.
• Features ship with comprehensive, deterministic test coverage across backend, frontend, and mobile.
• Test speed, stability, and coverage continuously improve without slowing delivery.
• Quality practices scale across teams, embedding a strong engineering-first test culture.

This is not a QA role—it’s an engineering leadership opportunity for someone who can write production-grade code and design test systems that accelerate delivery at scale