Staff QA Software Engineer

OpenMined

QA Lead responsible for implementing quality assurance in OpenMined, a nonprofit focused on non-public data. Collaborating with engineers to develop comprehensive testing strategies and frameworks.

Posted 5/6/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the delivery of engineering’s quarterly goals, ensuring consistent, high-impact delivery while effectively managing resources.
Work collaboratively in each product team’s codebase to access current test coverage, highest-risk surfaces, and its production readiness gap to produce a prioritized testing roadmap that engineers can see and execute against.
Establish testing patterns for a multi-language stack, implementing frameworks that make testing as easy as writing features.
Establish and socialize quality policies, minimum quality gates, and production-readiness standards collaboratively and iteratively with the product teams.
Spend regular time within each team’s workflow, pair on test design for complex features, review PRs for test quality, and making testing collaborative, not imposed.
Build and own what runs inside the CI/CD pipeline quality gates (testing suites, linting rules, reporting) supported by the Platform Lead.
Build automated PR checks and contributor CI gates to prepare for open-source contribution quality management.
Champion high-quality software delivery through the establishment of robust tools, processes, & methodologies, and by providing hands-on technical leadership via individual development contributions and code reviews.
Create technical documentation and processes that support high velocity and knowledge transfer.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of professional software engineering experience demonstrating capabilities to operate as an engineering peer within squads, not just as a testing specialist.
Python proficiency required; TypeScript and Go strongly preferred to ensure cross-team codebase understanding and ability to contribute beyond just test suites.
Has integrated testing frameworks from zero in at least two ecosystems.
Has defined quality standards and production-readiness criteria for an engineering organization.
Fluency integrating CI/CD quality gates into engineering workflows to encourage adoption and sustained use.
Has introduced testing culture to one or more teams in order to establish a teams capabilities and best practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

US Healthcare Benefits: We offer healthcare benefits for employees located in the United States
Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world.
Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community.
Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity.
Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity.
Fully Remote Work: Work from anywhere in the world—no office or commute required.
Results-Driven Culture: Thrive in an environment that values efficiency and results over bureaucracy.
Flexible Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with flexible vacation days, alongside recognition of local national holidays.
Competitive Compensation: Receive competitive pay, with equity in salary across different regions.

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonTypeScriptGotesting frameworksCI/CDautomated testingcode reviewstechnical documentationquality standardsproduction-readiness criteria

Soft Skills

collaborationleadershipcommunicationresource managementproblem-solvingknowledge transferteam buildingprocess improvementadaptabilitymentorship