Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Role overview Coordinate quality engineering across software releases while remaining hands-on with manual testing and automation. You will strengthen test practices and release confidence, investigate quality issues, and work with engineering and product colleagues to make quality a shared responsibility.

Responsibilities - Lead test planning, execution, validation, and post-release checks across release cycles. - Build and maintain automated test frameworks and suites, improving coverage and reliability in CI/CD workflows. - Assess product quality and risks, advise on release readiness, and collaborate with engineers to address issues early. - Support defect triage, incident investigation, and root-cause analysis. - Improve QA standards, documentation, testing environments, monitoring, and team processes; assess tools that could help. - Mentor QA colleagues and promote consistent practices across engineering teams, including effective use of AI for testing tasks.

Requirements - At least five years in software QA or testing, ideally in SaaS, e-commerce, fintech, or a similar setting. - Strong experience in both manual and automated testing, including designing and maintaining test suites with Playwright, Jest, or comparable tools. - Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs, databases, and web application testing. - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, release cycles, and cross-functional product teams. - Ability to coordinate or mentor QA work, analyze complex systems, and communicate risks and test outcomes clearly. - Experience using AI agents or building AI tools and agents.

Nice to have - Payment or transaction testing; performance and load tools such as JMeter or LoadRunner; accessibility testing; or experience with subscription billing. - Experience leading distributed QA teams or defining quality metrics and reporting.

Benefits and work setup - Remote role for candidates in Latin America.