Lead Quality Engineer

Role: Lead Quality Engineer With Playwright, Mobile Automation Experience

Job Location: Austin, Texas, USA - Onsite

Experience: 7+ Years
Practice: Application Development
Leading Skill: Automation Testing

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Lead Quality Engineer to lead quality assurance initiatives across modern web applications and distributed systems. The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience in Playwright, TypeScript, test automation frameworks, Mobile Automation, API testing, and CI/CD integration.

The candidate should also have exposure to AI-assisted testing tools, application observability using New Relic, and test infrastructure automation. This role requires technical leadership and close collaboration with product, development, architecture, and DevOps teams to improve software quality and release confidence.

Key Responsibilities

Lead quality engineering strategy and testing activities across multiple products.

Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.

Perform functional, integration, regression, exploratory, API, and user acceptance testing.

Experience with Mobile Automation

Validate REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, UI workflows, and distributed system integrations.

Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates.

Leverage AI-assisted testing tools to improve test creation, maintenance, and defect detection.

Use New Relic and observability tools to monitor application performance and identify quality issues.

Automate test environments, test data management, and deployment validation.

Define test strategies, test plans, quality metrics, and release criteria.

Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Collaborate with product owners, developers, architects, and DevOps teams.

Mentor QE engineers and promote quality engineering best practices.

Required Technical Skills

1. Playwright: Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks.

2. TypeScript: Proficiency in scripting and developing automated test cases.

3. Hand on experience with Mobile Automation

4. Test Strategy: Experience with test planning, risk assessment, and quality governance.

5. Functional Testing: Strong knowledge of functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.

6. API Testing: Experience testing REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, and distributed systems.

7. CI/CD: Experience integrating automated tests into deployment pipelines and implementing quality gates.

8. AI-Assisted Testing: Familiarity with AI-driven testing tools and automation solutions.

9. Observability: Exposure to New Relic or similar application monitoring tools.

10. Infrastructure Automation: Understanding of test environment automation, test data management, and deployment validation.

11. Leadership: Ability to mentor engineers, coordinate with stakeholders, and drive quality improvements.