Hybrid QA Lead: Automation & Mobile Web Testing (Remote)

sportygroup; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Bonuses quarterly

Paid leave 28 days

Core hours 10am-3pm

Referral bonuses

Top equipment

Annual retreats

Job summary

Sporty is seeking a Hybrid QA Lead to own the testing lifecycle from requirements to deployment. You will blend manual testing with automation, drive quality, and provide technical leadership to a high-performance team.

This remote-first role offers a competitive salary, quarterly bonuses, 28 days leave, flexible core hours, and modern tooling including Selenium, Playwright, Appium, and a Kubernetes-based CI pipeline.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4+ years within a relevant role.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in software testing.
• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, with experience in mentoring, performance reviews, work allocation.
• Experience with Web / Android / iOS and API manual testing.
• Experience with web debugging and API testing tools (Chrome DevTools, Postman).
• Strong experience with Python.
• Relational databases preferably MySQL.
• Experience with automation testing for REST APIs and mobile apps (Android/iOS).
• Automation testing for web apps (Selenium/Playwright).
• Familiarity with Jira / Jenkins would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a development team, fostering a collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure best practices in software development.
• Drive the Testing lifecycle from requirements gathering to deployment, ensuring timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
• Conduct regular code reviews, offering constructive feedback to improve the team’s skills and output.
• Manage team members' performance and career development.
• Track and record product issues and analyse the problems through various tools, giving feedback to relevant personnel to make corrections.
• Write test plans / test cases and output test reports according to feature requirements; share test-related information with other team members.
• Create automated Web / Mobile / API test cases.
• Track and analyse automated tests to improve test efficiency.
• Develop automated tests and test frameworks.
• Improve our Continuous Integration pipeline.
• Help automate all aspects of the software engineering process.

Skills

Leadership

Mentoring

Test strategy

Automation mindset

Team management

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Postman

Selenium

Playwright

Appium

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Chrome DevTools

Job description

Sporty is seeking a Hybrid QA Lead to own the testing lifecycle from requirements to deployment. You will blend manual testing with automation, drive quality, and provide technical leadership to a high-performance team.

This remote-first role offers a competitive salary, quarterly bonuses, 28 days leave, flexible core hours, and modern tooling including Selenium, Playwright, Appium, and a Kubernetes-based CI pipeline.