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Lead Software Engineer in Test

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about 3 hours ago
San Francisco, CA, USA or New York, NY, USASenior / Staff+

Base Salary

$180k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define the long-term vision for automated testing, including frameworks and quality gates.
  • Design and implement robust automation across integration, UI, and end-to-end layers.
  • Lead test planning with product squads to prioritize and automate critical functionality.
  • Own the health and reliability of test pipelines, reducing flaky tests.
  • Collaborate with Infrastructure to build and maintain realistic test environments.
  • Optimize CI/CD test stages to accelerate safe deployments.
  • Partner with engineering teams to define test strategies for new features.
  • Guide teams through systematic debugging of failures.
  • Promote strong testing patterns and quality-first thinking across teams.
  • Coach engineers in automation best practices and quality ownership.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in test automation or software engineering.
  • At least 3 years in a senior or lead test engineering role.
  • Experience architecting or maintaining large-scale automation frameworks.
  • Fluency in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript.
  • Familiarity with tools like Playwright, Cypress, pytest, or REST API testing frameworks.
  • Understanding of modern stacks including FastAPI and Vue.js.
  • Experience improving CI pipelines in environments using Turborepo, Docker, and AWS EKS.
  • Comfort with cloud-native infrastructure and testing distributed systems.
  • Strong understanding of CI/CD and automation workflows.
  • Ability to convert product requirements into executable test strategies.

Benefits

  • Top-of-market salary and equity package.
  • Medical, dental & vision insurance coverage.
  • 401(k) & Match.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Parental Leave.

Tech Stack

AWSCypressDockerFastAPIJavaScriptKubernetespytestPythonTypeScriptVercelVue.js