QA Lead

QA Strategy & Governance

• Define and implement the company's overall Quality Assurance strategy.
• Establish testing standards across all engineering squads.
• Create and maintain quality metrics and reporting dashboards.
• Define quality ownership models across development teams.
• Ensure quality becomes an integral part of the engineering culture.
• Establish Definition of Done (DoD) and release readiness criteria.

QA Guild Leadership

• Establish and lead the QA Guild across the organization.
• Create standard testing methodologies and best practices.
• Align embedded QA engineers on tools, frameworks, and processes.
• Conduct regular QA reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
• Drive continuous quality improvement initiatives.

Test Automation Framework Development

• Design and implement scalable automation testing frameworks.
• Define:
  • Unit Testing Strategy
  • Integration Testing Strategy
  • End-to-End Testing Strategy
  • Regression Testing Framework
  • Performance Testing Approach
• Create reusable automation standards for future growth.
• Ensure automation is integrated into CI/CD pipelines.

API & Integration Testing

• Build and maintain automated testing for:
  • tRPC APIs
  • REST APIs
  • Webhook Processing
  • OAuth Authentication Flows
  • Third-Party Integrations
• Validate:
  • Request/Response Accuracy
  • Payload Transformations
  • Schema Validation
  • Authentication Mechanisms
  • Rate Limiting Behaviors
  • Error Handling Scenarios

Event-Driven & Async System Testing

Own testing strategy for:

• AWS SQS Queues
• Lambda Consumers
• Event Processing Pipelines
• Retry Mechanisms
• Dead Letter Queues
• Eventual Consistency Scenarios

Validate:

• Message Delivery
• Processing Reliability
• Queue Behavior
• Failure Recovery
• Data Integrity

End-to-End Testing

Establish E2E testing for critical workflows including:

Lighthouse Flows

• Flow Creation
• Trigger Configuration
• Workflow Activation
• Payload Transformation
• Delivery Confirmation

Customer Dashboard

• User Authentication
• Settings Management
• Billing Functions
• Run History Tracking
• Integration Configuration

Embedded QA Leadership

Provide dotted-line leadership to QA Engineers across:

• Platform Squad
• Apps Squad
• Custom Squad

Responsibilities include:

• Mentoring QA Engineers
• Reviewing Test Strategies
• Supporting Career Development
• Ensuring Consistent Quality Standards
• Escalation Management
• Training and Coaching

Hands-On Testing

Personally lead testing activities for:

• High-Risk Releases
• Database Migrations
• Core Platform Enhancements
• New Connector Integrations
• Production Incident Validation

Perform:

• Exploratory Testing
• Regression Testing
• Release Validation
• Risk Assessments

CI/CD Quality Management

Work closely with Platform Engineering to:

• Strengthen GitHub Actions pipelines
• Define release quality gates
• Automate validation processes
• Reduce test flakiness
• Improve release confidence

Define mandatory checks before deployment to:

• Development
• Staging
• Production

Defect Management & Root Cause Analysis

• Investigate production defects.
• Analyze logs and monitoring systems.
• Perform root cause analysis.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions.
• Improve testing coverage based on findings.

Technologies & Platforms

Backend

• TypeScript (Strict Mode)
• Node.js
• tRPC
• Zod

Frontend

• Next.js 15

Database

• MySQL
• Drizzle ORM

Cloud Infrastructure

• AWS Lambda
• AWS SQS
• API Gateway
• EventBridge
• S3
• CloudFront
• Cognito
• AWS IoT

Infrastructure as Code

• SST v3
• Pulumi

Testing

• Vitest
• Playwright (Preferred)

CI/CD

• GitHub Actions
• NX

Monitoring & Observability

• CloudWatch
• Structured JSON Logs
• Discord Alerting