QA Chapter Lead

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain QA standards, methodologies, best practices, and quality strategies.
• Establish functional, regression, integration, performance, and security test strategies.
• Lead, mentor, support, and develop QA engineers across manual and automation testing.
• Plan QA resources and testing schedules, conduct reviews, and promote quality ownership.
• Own test plans, test cases, test data strategy, test execution oversight, defect management, coverage, and risk-based testing.
• Validate acceptance criteria, release readiness, and post-release smoke-test coverage.
• Drive test automation strategy, framework selection, tooling, test management, metrics, and reporting.
• Collaborate with DevOps on CI/CD integration and partner with QA platform and enablement teams on new tools and technologies.
• Work with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to clarify requirements, resolve quality risks, and support release go/no-go decisions.
• Communicate quality status, risks, and metrics to stakeholders.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance and/or Software Development Engineering in Test roles, with strong test automation and platform-development experience.
• More than one year of experience leading, mentoring, and growing QA teams is preferred.
• Deep expertise in testing methodologies, tools, frameworks, Selenium, Playwright, TestRail, CI/CD integration, and API testing.
• Hands-on agentic AI experience using MCPs, agents, agent skills, and AI-driven testing harnesses.
• Hands-on data-quality experience testing or monitoring data pipelines, ETL, warehouse or reporting platforms, replicated data, schemas, contracts, and real data stores such as BigTable, MySQL, SingleStore, and Kafka.
• Experience testing SQL-centric products or query layers, including SQL parsing, parameter binding, injection safety, explain-plan and performance behavior, persistence round-trips, and source-level data correctness.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, collaboration, stakeholder-influence, and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience leading test framework migrations is preferred.
• Familiarity with OWASP guidelines and security testing tools is preferred.
• Affiliate & Partnerships Industry Fundamentals Certification by PXA is preferred.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Office-only catered lunch on Thursdays, snacks, and coffee.
• Flexible spending accounts and 401(k).
• Flexible PTO and a hybrid work arrangement.
• Mental health and wellness coverage including up to 12 fully covered therapy or coaching sessions annually, dependent coverage, and monthly gym reimbursement.
• Restricted Stock Units with a three-year vesting schedule, subject to Board approval.
• Free Coursera subscription and PXA courses.
• Paid parental leave of 26 weeks for primary caregivers and 13 weeks for secondary caregivers.
• Technology stipend for home-office setup and a monthly internet allowance.