Lead Product Quality Assurance Engineer
Eli Lilly and Company1 day ago
South San Francisco, CA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$71k - $169k/yr
Responsibilities
- Develop comprehensive test strategies and plans covering scope, objectives, deliverables, resources, schedules, tooling, and success criteria.
- Oversee functional, regression, integration, performance, exploratory, smoke, and UAT testing, including defect tracking and resolution.
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of test automation frameworks and balance automated and manual testing based on risk.
- Coordinate system integration testing and user acceptance testing across multiple teams, environments, schedules, and stakeholders.
- Lead and structure a globally distributed QE team across time zones, including collaboration rhythms and working-model overlaps.
- Track defect density, test coverage, execution rates, and other quality indicators; report trends and release-readiness recommendations.
- Anticipate testing, technology, environment, dependency, and post-production risks and lead mitigation and resolution efforts.
- Act as the primary testing contact, communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and make go/no-go decisions during deployment windows.
- Drive shift-left testing, CI/CD integration, modern automation techniques, and AI-assisted testing adoption.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical engineering discipline.
- At least 8 years of software quality assurance experience.
- At least 5 years in a Test Lead or QE Lead capacity.
- Experience leading end-to-end testing across multiple teams in an Agile delivery environment.
- Comprehensive knowledge of functional, regression, integration, performance, and exploratory testing.
- Experience with TestRail, XRay, Qtest, or Quality Center, and with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Puppeteer.
- Working knowledge of GitHub and CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or Jenkins.
- Strong understanding of AI in testing, SDLC, Agile practices, shift-left principles, and Agile planning tools such as Jira.
- Experience leading distributed teams, coordinating SIT and UAT, resolving conflicts, managing complex risks, and communicating with diverse stakeholders.
- Must be authorized to work full-time in the United States; Lilly will not sponsor work authorization or visas for this role.
Benefits
- Full-time employees are eligible for a company bonus depending partly on company and individual performance.
- Benefits may include a company-sponsored 401(k), pension, vacation, medical, dental, vision, prescription drug, flexible spending, life insurance, leave, well-being, fitness, employee assistance, and employee club benefits.
- The anticipated wage is $71,250 - $169,400 per year.
Tech Stack
CypressGitHub ActionsJenkinsSelenium
Categories
About Eli Lilly and Company
Eli Lilly and Company researches, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription medicines and biologics for patients, sold through healthcare providers, pharmacies, and payers. Core therapeutic areas include diabetes, oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and obesity. Founded in 1876 and headquartered in Indianapolis, it is a public company (NYSE: LLY) with global operations and is building a new advanced manufacturing site for gene therapy and other modalities in Lebanon, Indiana.