QE Engagement Lead

QE Engagement Lead

Location: Charlotte, NC (3 Days Onsite)







Open to non-local candidates willing to relocate

Role Overview

Seeking a highly hands-on QE Engagement Lead to drive quality validation for application modernization and migration initiatives involving .NET, Angular, AWS, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

This is not a Test Manager role. The ideal candidate must be technically strong, capable of coding, reviewing automation, validating migrations, and leading client-facing QE engagements.

Mandatory Skills (Non-Negotiable)

Agentic AI in Quality Engineering

• Hands-on experience building/customizing AI agents for test automation, test generation, defect triage, and impact analysis.

• Experience with tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, or similar.

Playwright Automation

• Strong hands-on experience building, debugging, and maintaining Playwright automation frameworks.

• Ability to solve real-world automation challenges, not just provide high-level guidance.

Data Migration Testing

• Proven experience validating migrations involving SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

• Expertise in source-to-target reconciliation, ETL validation, data quality checks, schema mapping, and functional parity testing.

The ideal candidate is:

• A hands-on automation engineer who can still code daily.

• Deeply experienced with Playwright automation.

• Capable of building or customizing Agentic AI testing solutions.

• Strong in migration and data validation testing.

• Comfortable challenging technical issues with clients and engineering teams.

• Able to lead from the front rather than managing from a distance.

• Experienced working within a client's existing frameworks and governance models.

Additional Requirements:

• 12+ years in QA/QE with client-facing leadership experience.

• Strong SQL skills with SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

• Experience testing .NET/.NET Core, Angular, APIs, and integration workflows.

• Hands-on Azure DevOps CI/CD experience.

• Ability to work within existing client frameworks and governance models.

• Excellent stakeholder communication and reporting skills.

Preferred Skills

• AWS (RDS, Lambda, S3, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, CloudWatch)

• REST Assured, Postman, Karate, Selenium

• Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch

• Legacy modernization and migration programs

• Distributed onsite/offshore delivery model