Lead Software Development Test Engineer

Partner with Engineering and Product teams early in the development lifecycle to identify quality risks, clarify requirements, and improve testability

Establish quality gates, release readiness criteria, and risk-based testing strategies to improve delivery confidence

Oversee validation of complex workflows across web, mobile, backend services, APIs, and platform components as applicable

Analyze defect trends, escape patterns, and test effectiveness metrics to identify systemic quality issues and recommend improvements

Support root cause analysis for critical defects and production issues, partnering with cross-functional teams on corrective and preventive actions

Guide test environment strategy, test data management, and integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

Mentor senior and junior test engineers, providing technical direction on test design, automation patterns, debugging, and quality best practices

Influence engineering teams to adopt scalable quality engineering standards, tools, and processes

Contribute to roadmap planning and estimation discussions by highlighting testing scope, dependencies, and quality risks

Act as a trusted advisor and escalation point for complex release and quality decisions

Job Complexity: Leads highly complex quality engineering work spanning multiple systems, teams, or product domains. Requires balancing hands-on technical contributions with strategic quality leadership, cross-team alignment, and proactive risk management. Impacts release quality, engineering efficiency, and customer experience across broad areas of the platform.

Required Supervision: Operates with a high degree of independence and technical judgment. Receives direction primarily on business priorities, organizational goals, and major initiatives, while independently leading quality strategy, execution planning, and cross-functional coordination for assigned domains.

Expertise: Recognized as a senior technical leader in software quality engineering, test automation, and release risk management. Demonstrates deep expertise in building scalable test strategies, improving automation effectiveness, and influencing engineering organizations toward quality-by-design practices. Brings strong systems thinking, technical depth, and leadership capability to complex quality challenges.