Lead Quality Engineer

Teaching Strategies, LLC

Quality engineering leader driving AI-first automation and quality practices for a leading edtech company. Leading teams to enhance reliability and efficiency in software delivery.

Posted 5/21/2026full-timeRemote • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and evolve AI-first quality engineering practices across product and platform teams.
Develop and expand agentic engineering capabilities to automate complex workflows, quality validation, and engineering operations.
Drive shift-left engineering practices including automation, risk-based testing, release validation, and continuous quality feedback.
Remain hands-on with automation, validation strategies, debugging, and delivery workflows.
Build and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks using Playwright across UI and API layers.
Use AI-assisted development and agentic workflows to accelerate testing, validation, defect analysis, and engineering productivity.
Partner closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams to improve release confidence and delivery quality.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong software engineering and quality engineering background with leadership experience.
Hands-on experience with Playwright and modern automated testing practices.
Experience building and scaling quality engineering processes in fast-moving product organizations.
Experience using Xray for test management, traceability, and release validation.
Strong understanding of shift-left testing, automation strategy, and engineering quality metrics.
Experience applying AI-first and agentic development approaches to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.
Ability to balance speed, quality, maintainability, and customer impact in a high-velocity environment.
Experience leading quality engineering teams in SaaS or cloud-native environments.
Experience with security, performance, accessibility, and resilience testing.
Experience improving developer productivity, platform quality, or engineering operations.
Background in automation engineering, or product engineering leadership.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation package
Employee Equity Appreciation Program
Health and wellness insurance benefits
401k with employer match
Flexible work environment
Unlimited paid time off (which includes paid holidays and Winter Break)
Paid parental leave
Tuition assistance, professional development, and opportunities for career growth
Best in class technology equipment for every employee
Penthouse suite in downtown DC seconds away from Washington Nationals Stadium and Audi Field

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Hard Skills & Tools

automationquality validationrisk-based testingcontinuous quality feedbackautomated testing frameworksPlaywrightAI-assisted developmentdefect analysisengineering quality metricssecurity testing

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingbalancing speed and qualityadaptabilitystrategic thinkingteam managementcustomer impact focusoperational efficiency