Lead QA Engineer

Tempus AI; Aliso Viejo (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Ambry Genetics is seeking an experienced QA leader to own the end-to-end quality engineering strategy across the global application portfolio. You will define test architecture, select tooling, and drive coverage targets, while enforcing a scalable automation framework across multiple suites and repositories.

You will own CI/CD test orchestration (GitHub Actions or equivalent), manage deployment-triggered and nightly regression runs, health checks, and gated releases.

Qualifications

• Own end-to-end quality engineering strategy across the application portfolio.
• Set and enforce automation framework architecture across multiple suites and repositories.
• Own CI/CD test orchestration end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent).
• Lead release readiness and go/no-go decisions for engineering and product leadership.
• Drive shift-left in Agile Scrum, build quality gates into the delivery pipeline.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end quality engineering strategy across the application portfolio: test architecture, tooling selection, coverage targets.
• Set and enforce the automation framework architecture across multiple suites and repositories, reusable page objects and fixtures, shared utilities, dependency and version management, stable selectors, and act as the final reviewer on test-framework pull requests.
• Own CI/CD test orchestration end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent): deployment-triggered and nightly regression runs, health checks, artifact and version gating, reporting, and automated notification.
• Lead release readiness and go/no-go: consolidate risk assessment, validation evidence, and quality metrics into a clear recommendation for engineering and product leadership.
• Drive shift-left across the Agile Scrum teams you support, represent quality and testability in design reviews, requirements, and definition of ready/done, and build quality gates into the delivery pipeline.

Skills

Test architecture

Automation framework

CI/CD testing

Quality assurance

GitHub Actions

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Compensation
National: $110,000-$155,000
NYC/SF: $120,000-$165,000Qualifications

• Own the end-to-end quality engineering strategy across the application portfolio: test architecture, tooling selection, coverage targets.
• Set and enforce the automation framework architecture across multiple suites and repositories, reusable page objects and fixtures, shared utilities, dependency and version management, stable selectors, and act as the final reviewer on test-framework pull requests.
• Own CI/CD test orchestration end to end (GitHub Actions or equivalent): deployment-triggered and nightly regression runs, health checks, artifact and version gating, reporting, and automated notification.
• Lead release readiness and go/no-go: consolidate risk assessment, validation evidence, and quality metrics into a clear recommendation for engineering and product leadership.
• Drive shift-left across the Agile Scrum teams you support, represent quality and testability in design reviews, requirements, and definition of ready/done, and build quality gates into the delivery pipeline rather than at
  

end of the sprint.Preferred

• ISTQB/ASTQB certification, Advanced Level or above.
• Experience in a CLIA/CAP laboratory, FDA-regulated, or SOX-controlled software environment, including audit support.
• Experience building or operating AI/LLM-assisted QA workflows, automated failure summarization, test generation, or agent-based regression triage.
• Knowledge of genetic testing, molecular biology, or other scientific-related disciplines.

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