Founding QA Architect – AI SaaS Quality Lead

Neuroscale AI; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity participation

Job summary

Neuroscale AI is hiring a Senior QA Engineer / Quality Engineering Lead to own quality assurance, testing strategy, product validation, and release readiness across ARBI and Athena. This hands-on senior role requires deep testing, building automated quality systems, validating AI workflows, and mentoring developers on testing practices.

You will audit the QA landscape, define testing strategy, build regression and automation frameworks, and ensure release confidence for a rapidly evolving SaaS

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Assurance for SaaS/B2B platforms.
• Hands-on automated testing with Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, Pytest, Postman/Newman.
• Strong backend fluency with Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, Celery, Temporal and AWS.
• Experience validating large-scale datasets, data pipelines, and integrations.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improving reliability.
• Startup environments with high ownership and mentoring responsibility; relocate to Northern VA / DC area or work ET hours remotely.

Responsibilities

• Audit the current QA landscape and define a company-wide QA strategy across stabilization, automation, and maturity.
• Own product QA for ARBI and Athena, validate against requirements, designs, and customer workflows.
• Build and modernize test automation for frontend, API, integration, and end-to-end testing, integrate into CI/CD.
• Validate backend, API, data, and workflow reliability across REST APIs, PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, and AWS services.
• QA AI workflows: validate AI outputs for accuracy, bias, guardrails, and explainability.
• Own release readiness and quality visibility with dashboards and clear bug reporting.

Skills

AI/LLM testing

QA leadership

SaaS QA

Automation mindset

Tools

React

FastAPI

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

Neuroscale AI is hiring a Senior QA Engineer / Quality Engineering Lead to own quality assurance, testing strategy, product validation, and release readiness across ARBI and Athena. This hands-on senior role requires deep testing, building automated quality systems, validating AI workflows, and mentoring developers on testing practices.

You will audit the QA landscape, define testing strategy, build regression and automation frameworks, and ensure release confidence for a rapidly evolving SaaS