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QA Lead Engineer

United States, San Francisco 180000.00 - 230000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted January 10, 2026
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Job Description

You’ll be the technical backbone of the QA function—building automation, running tests, and ensuring every release is qualified. As QA Lead Engineer, you’ll directly protect product reliability and customer trust while raising the bar for testing across engineering.

Job Responsibility

  • Test Execution & Evaluation: Run daily/weekly test cycles across multiple products and environments
  • Automation Ownership: Build, maintain, and extend automated test frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines
  • Test Case Management: Author, update, and optimize test cases across product lines
  • Cross-Product Quality Support: Partner with product squads to enable feature validation and regression coverage
  • Release Candidate Signoff: Participate in release readiness reviews and provide test evidence for release evaluation and qualification
  • Edge Case & Exploratory Testing: Hunt for failure modes beyond the “happy path"
  • Metrics & Reporting: Contribute to QA dashboards and track product-level KPIs
  • Customer Feedback Integration: Help map production issues into regression tests

Requirements

  • 4–6 years experience in QA or Software Engineering
  • Strong background in test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, Jenkins)
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps tooling
  • Solid understanding of exploratory testing and edge case design
  • Ability to communicate clearly with product and engineering teams
  • Detail-oriented, systematic, and motivated to prevent regressions

Nice to have

Audio compression, codec or analysis experience is a bonus

What we offer

  • Medical, dental, vision benefits
  • Annual wellness stipend
  • Mental health support
  • Life, STD, LTD Income Insurance Plans
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Generous paid parental leave
  • Flexible schedule
  • 12 Paid US company holidays
  • Quarterly personal productivity stipend
  • One-time stipend for home office upgrades
  • 401(k) plan with company match
  • Tax Savings Programs
  • Learning / Education stipend
  • Participation in talks and conferences
  • Employee Resource Groups
  • AI enablement workshops / sessions
  • Offers Equity
  • Offers Bonus
  • 10% annual bonus

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