Current: Lead QA Engineer

About the role

Headquarters: Remote (US) About the Role As a Lead QA Engineer, you'll own testing strategy and quality standards across our most important work; Deciding what should be automated, what needs a human eye, where the real risk is hiding, and acting on it. You'll work hands-on across both manual and automated testing, splitting your time based on what a given release actually needs, while mentoring other engineers and acting as the go-to voice on quality across projects. You've got the critical thinking skills to chase down a hard bug yourself, know when to ask for help and delegate, and the rang

Requirements

• Act as the technical point of contact for quality with stakeholders: communicate risk, resolve disagreements about scope, and negotiate realistic testing timelines.
• Write clear, actionable defect reports in Jira, drive them to resolution, and verify fixes actually hold up under retest rather than just passing a second glance.
• Use Jira's linking and epic structure to keep testing work traceable, and flag workflow friction in the board with the team before it slows down the SDLC.
• Mentor other QA engineers in both manual technique and automation practice, including how to write tickets clearly and so well that they need no follow-up clarification, raising the bar on testing acr
• Step into any project at any phase to assess its quality risk and recommend a concrete path forward.
• Stay ahead of testing tools and practices worth adopting, and bring the right ones into real workflows deliberately.
• Operate and champion the use of AI tooling with an understanding that its output is useful, but not infallible. You treat AI as a tool, not a coworker.
• 6-8 years of experience in software quality assurance or testing, ideally with exposure to consulting or multi-stakeholder environments.