Lead QA Engineer

Ambry Genetics seeks a Lead QA Engineer to establish quality engineering strategy for a portfolio of clinical software, including HIPAA-compliant platforms. The role involves owning test architecture, CI/CD automation, release readiness decisions, and mentoring a QA team in a regulated healthcare environment.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality engineering strategy: test architecture, tooling, coverage targets across application portfolio
• Set and enforce automation framework architecture, shared utilities, stable selectors; review framework pull requests
• Own CI/CD test orchestration including deployment-triggered runs, nightly regression, artifact gating, and reporting
• Lead release readiness decisions; consolidate risk assessment and quality metrics for go/no-go recommendations
• Drive shift-left practices; mentor and grow QA and SDET team; escalate and resolve systemic failures across boundaries

Requirements

• 10+ years software QA or test engineering; 7+ years hands-on test automation; 3+ years lead-level ownership
• Expert-level programming in Java and/or Python with strong design patterns and test code quality discipline
• Deep hands-on experience with Playwright, Selenium WebDriver, JUnit 5, TestNG, Maven, and Gradle
• Advanced SQL and relational database skills; test data management for regulated environments
• CI/CD pipeline ownership (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bamboo); CI/CD orchestration and test reporting
• Healthcare compliance knowledge (HIPAA, SOX, HL7, FHIR); experience in validated or regulated testing
• Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS or Azure); containerization (Docker); performance testing tools (JMeter, k6, Gatling)

Compensation: $114,000-$160,000 (National); $120,000-$170,000 (NYC/SF)