Head of Testing & AI-Driven Automation

Function Health; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Function Health in the United States is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to build the testing and automation systems that enable confident software releases. You will set technical direction, create reusable test infrastructure, and employ AI-assisted approaches to reduce repetitive testing while maintaining clear human oversight.

You will lead cross-functional teams, define roadmaps, evaluate AI agents, and establish release criteria with measurable quality.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering with hands‑on ownership of automation and quality infrastructure.
• Experience making verification reliable in a delivery pipeline and debugging failures across code, data, and infrastructure.
• Practical experience building with LLMs or agents and evaluating outputs.
• Technical leadership across teams with clear judgment about quality and delivery tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Define the testing and automation roadmap with Engineering and Product, starting with priority workflows and release risks.
• Build reusable test infrastructure, repeatable environments, test data, and CI/CD integration.
• Develop AI‑assisted test creation, exploration, maintenance, and failure investigation; evaluate computer‑use agents where they fit.
• Establish meaningful assertions, reproducible failure evidence, and release criteria that independently check agent output.
• Measure escaped defects, flaky tests, verification time, false alarms, and maintenance effort; coach teams to adopt the system.

Skills

Automation ownership

QA infrastructure

LLMs/agents

Technical leadership

Playwright/automation

Job description

Function Health in the United States is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to build the testing and automation systems that enable confident software releases. You will set technical direction, create reusable test infrastructure, and employ AI-assisted approaches to reduce repetitive testing while maintaining clear human oversight.

You will lead cross-functional teams, define roadmaps, evaluate AI agents, and establish release criteria with measurable quality.