Director, Quality Engineering

Spotnana; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in stock options

401(k) with up to 4% match (Fidelity)

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision,

Life and disability insurance

Flexible PTO + 10 holidays

Job summary

Spotnana is seeking a leader to build and head the Quality Engineering function, ensuring products are tested, trusted, and scalable. You will lead a world-class QA team, implement automation strategies, and partner with product and engineering to deliver high-quality features.

You will own defect prevention end-to-end and drive metrics, RCA programs, and a shift-left culture. The role requires strong communication, cross-team influence, and experience with Jira/Confluence in a hybrid Palo Alto

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading quality engineering teams at scale.
• Deep expertise in modern test automation strategies and QA tooling.
• Strong command of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and Kubernetes.
• Experience defining quality metrics and driving data-informed QA processes.
• Ability to influence across multiple product teams without direct authority.
• Excellent communication skills, translating technical detail to executives.
• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a world-class QA team and continuously improve testing practices.
• Own defect prevention end-to-end from PRD ingestion to production release.
• Partner with product and engineering to translate requirements into risk-based test plans.
• Drive adoption of internal automation tooling and TestRail to scale coverage.
• Define and track quality metrics using data to raise the bar.
• Champion shift-left testing across the development lifecycle.

Skills

QA leadership

Test automation

Selenium

Playwright

Cypress

CI/CD

Data-driven QA

Communication

Tools

TestRail

Allure

Jira

Confluence

AWS

Kubernetes

Job description

The opportunity ahead

Build and lead the Quality Engineering function that ensures our products are tested, trusted and ready to scale.

How you'll help us build

Quality Engineering

• Lead and grow a world-class functional QA team, establishing and continuously improving testing practices across the organization
• Own defect prevention end-to-end — from PRD ingestion to production release — ensuring new features ship with high confidence
• Partner closely with product and engineering teams to translate complex product requirements into comprehensive, risk-based test plans with full feature coverage
• Drive the adoption of internal automation tooling and TestRail to scale QA coverage without scaling headcount linearly
• Define and track quality metrics — defect containment, escape, and rejection rates — using data to continuously raise the bar
• Champion a shift-left testing culture, embedding quality early in the development lifecycle rather than as a gate at the end

Leadership & Cross-Functional Impact

• Recruit, develop, and retain top engineering talent across the QA function
• Manage vendor relationships and tooling contracts relevant to your domain
• Serve as a standard-bearer for engineering discipline: CI/CD best practices, QMS frameworks, and operational excellence
• Drive a culture of transparency and continuous improvement through rigorous RCA processes, incident reviews, and blameless post-mortems

Experience you bring

• Proven track record leading quality engineering team at scale
• Deep expertise in modern test automation strategies, frameworks (e.g. Selenium, Playwright, Cypress), and QA tooling (e.g. TestRail, Allure)
• Strong command of cloud platforms (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code principles
• Experience defining quality metrics, defect lifecycle management, and driving data-informed QA process improvements
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a horizontal enablement function — influencing without direct authority across multiple product teams
• Excellent communication skills; able to translate between technical detail and executive narrative
• Familiarity with agile software development environments and tools like Jira and Confluence
• Palo Alto: Ability to work in a hybrid setting alongside teammates at our office at 375 Forest Avenue, including working comfortably in an open office environment.

What to expect next

Our interview process includes conversations with members of our Engineering team, followed by a final discussion with a Engineering leader.

Let’s talk compensation

Spotnana strives to offer fair, industry-competitive, and equitable compensation. Our total compensation package includes base salary, an annual performance bonus, company equity, and comprehensive benefits. We use trusted third-party market data to establish compensation ranges that are competitive for the role, industry, company size, and geographic market, while maintaining internal equity across our team.

The anticipated annual base salary hiring ranges for this role are:

• San Francisco Bay Area: $220,000 – $280,000

Actual compensation may vary based on individual qualifications and the applicable geographic market.

We care for the people who make everything possible - our benefits offerings include:

• Equity in the form of stock options, which provides partial ownership in the company, so you can share in the success of the company as it grows
• Pre-tax and ROTH 401(k) options via Fidelity with up to a 4% company match
• Comprehensive benefit plans covering medical, dental, vision, life, and disability effective on your hire date. We cover 100% of your employee premiums and 85% of your eligible dependents
• Pre-tax flexible spending account options for health, dependent care, and commuter expenses
• Flexible PTO in addition to 10 company holidays and an end-of-year company shutdown
• Up to 26 weeks of Parental Leave
• Monthly cell phone/internet stipend
• Extra perks — IATAN travel membership, pet insurance, financial wellness tools, Calm app access, and more