Lead QA Engineer
Xsolla
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Beijing • 🇨🇳 China
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Senior
Tech Stack
JestMicroservices
About the role
- Overseeing and guiding a team of QA engineers to ensure the delivery of high-quality software across projects.
- Defining and enforcing testing standards, managing defect governance, and driving automation strategies.
- Mentoring and developing QA engineers, allocating resources effectively, and ensuring that testing processes are aligned with organizational goals and timelines.
- Acting as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, providing clear communication on quality metrics, risks, and progress.
- Continuously improving workflows to enhance efficiency, reliability, and team performance.
- Define and manage test plans, test cases, and execution schedules for projects.
- Ensure coverage across functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing.
- Enforce QA standards, methodologies, and best practices within the team.
- Ensure defects are logged, tracked, and resolved efficiently.
- Act as the primary liaison between QA, development, product, and operations teams.
- Drive adoption of automation frameworks and tools where appropriate.
- Collaborate closely with backend developers, DevOps, and product teams to understand system design and ensure complete test coverage.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in QA, Agile methodologies.
- 2+ years of experience as a QA Lead
- 5+ years of experience in QA Automation, including strong hands-on technical leadership
- Expertise in backend/API automation using Jest, Postman, and modern REST testing practices
- Solid experience with Playwright, JEST, Karate, Cucumber or equivalent frameworks
- Strong understanding of monolith architecture and microservices-based systems
- Hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines and working with YAML-based configuration
- Strong understanding of mocking, stubbing, service virtualization, and contract testing (e.g., Pact or similar)
- Experience building test frameworks from the ground up or significantly enhancing existing ones
- Comfortable using AI tools as accelerators while applying critical thinking to validate output
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and QA teams
- Proactive, self-driven, and able to take ownership of automation direction with minimal supervision.
Benefits
- Convenient work tools
- Latest Mac workplaces + additional hardware to make you more effective at work
- Google Chat, Gmail, Google Drive, Confluence, Jira, GitLab
- Professional growth
- Free trainings and participation in specialized conferences
- Rich knowledge exchange within the company
- Health insurance (Medical, dental and optical)- Employee and dependents
- Flexible hours: organize your day according to your needs and sprint & teamwork demands
- No dress code
- Comfortable and new office environment
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
QAQA Automationbackend/API automationtest planstest casesCI/CD pipelinesmockingstubbingservice virtualizationcontract testing
Soft skills
mentoringcommunicationcollaborationproactiveself-drivenownershipteam performanceresource allocationdefect governanceworkflow improvement