QA Lead, Automation Experience
VeliTech
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
Tech Stack
AWSSQL
About the role
- Manage the QA team, including manual and automation engineers
- Build, improve, and prioritise QA processes and activities
- Owning release quality decisions
- Decide when test automation is needed and when manual testing is more effective
- Estimate testing activities and analyse potential risks based on business priorities
- Be able to step in and execute complex UI, API, and WebSocket testing across platforms when required
- Participate in writing automated tests within existing automation frameworks
- Analyse complex issues and manage the full defect lifecycle, including root cause analysis
- Own and maintain QA documentation
- Contribute to feature analysis and provide ideas for improving product quality and user experience
- Actively participate in Scrum ceremonies and cross-functional team processes
- Engage with teams across all departments to clarify requirements and ensure alignment on quality goals
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software testing
- Leadership experience: ability to mentor engineers and set QA standards
- Experience in writing automated tests using automation frameworks such as Playwright
- High sense of ownership and responsibility for product quality
- Strong communication skills
- Problem-solving and analytical skills
- Strong understanding of client-server architecture
- Understanding of which type of testing should be applied to a specific feature
- Experience in analysing and validating requirements and design, including asking clarifying questions, exploring business logic, and suggesting ways to improve the product
- Experience in testing cross-platform products
- Experience in log analysis for debugging and issue investigation
- Experience creating test cases, test documentation, and defect reports
- Experience testing APIs (REST/WebSocket) and working with SQL
- Familiarity with AWS services
- Understanding CI/CD processes
Benefits
- Level up daily. Real mentorship, a clear career path, and support to lead your product.
- Battle-tested tech stack. Work with what we bet on: microservices, serverless, SRE strength.
- Health comes first. Health support options vary based on your location.
- Work your way. Remote, Kyiv, Tbilisi, Manila, London — or mix it up.
- Time off that matters. Paid vacation, public holidays — to recharge your way.
- Build your brand. Share your story, grow your voice — inside and out.
- Culture with a pulse. Team offsites, community events, and the energy of people who care.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software testingautomated testsPlaywrightUI testingAPI testingWebSocket testingSQLlog analysistest case creationdefect lifecycle management
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationproblem-solvinganalytical skillsownershipresponsibilitycollaborationfeature analysisuser experience improvement