Paragon

Quality Assurance Lead

Paragon

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $75,000 - $115,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own the cross-team quality strategy across Paragon’s product surface area
  • Define and enforce a clear testing strategy across unit, integration, end-to-end, and live-environment testing
  • Partner with engineering teams to reduce reliance on manual regression and increase high-value automated coverage
  • Help define which test coverage should live in the monorepo and which should live in QA-owned live-environment automation
  • Establish clear release gates, smoke suites, and risk-based regression standards
  • Help evolve our quality systems so Paragon can deploy dozens of times per day with high confidence
  • Work with embedded QA engineers to improve consistency in test planning, test case design, bug reporting, release validation, and automation priorities
  • Coach teams on what quality ownership should look like for new features so automation is built in rather than added later
  • Drive improvements in test reliability, flake reduction, coverage quality, and release confidence
  • Partner with platform and SRE on environment stability, deploy verification, rollback confidence, and post-release checks
  • Improve the way we triage escaped defects and use them to strengthen the right layer of coverage
  • Help shape a quality operating model where QA is focused on high-leverage work rather than acting as a bottleneck for every release
  • Act as a player-coach when needed by reviewing test plans, contributing to automation strategy, and jumping into important quality problems directly

Requirements

  • Significant experience leading quality strategy for complex SaaS or infrastructure-style products
  • Strong experience across manual testing, test automation, regression strategy, release validation, and risk-based testing
  • Experience building or improving automated test coverage in collaboration with engineering teams
  • Deep understanding of the tradeoffs between unit, integration, API, end-to-end, and post-deploy testing
  • Experience working in an embedded QA or cross-functional product team model
  • Strong judgment around where human testing adds value and where it should be replaced by automation
  • Experience improving release processes and reducing QA bottlenecks in a growing engineering organization
  • Experience working in an environment with very high deployment frequency, or helping an organization build toward a model where teams can deploy dozens of times per day with high confidence
  • Strong instincts around release safety, test gating, change risk, and how to keep main and staging healthy as deployment frequency increases
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to influence engineers, managers, and cross-functional partners without relying on org hierarchy
  • Comfort operating in a hands-on, ambiguous environment where you are helping define the function as you go.
Benefits
  • A brand new laptop and any additional equipment you need to do your best work
  • Top-of-the-line health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Paid, gender-neutral parental leave (including adoption and foster placement)
  • Flexible working hours (we focus on outcomes, not time online)
  • Unlimited PTO, with a minimum encouraged amount per year
  • Annual team retreats
  • Interview accommodations available upon request
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
test automationmanual testingregression strategyrelease validationrisk-based testingunit testingintegration testingAPI testingend-to-end testingpost-deploy testing
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluencejudgmentcoachingcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityleadershipstrategic thinkinghands-on approach