Lead QA Engineer: Automation & Quality Strategy

Selby Jennings; Wilmington (NC); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Selby Jennings in Wilmington, NC is partnering with a 50-person fintech startup to hire a Senior/Lead QA Engineer to build the firm's first test automation infrastructure and scale the testing culture.

You will define QA strategy, own automation across product areas, collaborate with engineering, product, and QA teams, and drive automation coverage for APIs, workflows, and integrations.

This is a hands-on, highly technical role with exposure to modern automation frameworks and tooling.

Qualifications

• 3-7+ years of experience in a QA or test automation-adjacent role.
• Experience with modern automation frameworks (such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, etc.).
• Experience with Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the overall QA strategy for manual and automated testing across all product areas.
• Collaborate with engineering managers, product owners, and developers to embed quality at every stage of the SDLC.
• Prioritize the team's workload and manage QA efforts across concurrent feature streams and bug-fix cycles.
• Build robust automation scripts to test business functionality, including standard and custom objects, workflows, APIs, and integrations.
• Continuously increase automation coverage by identifying gaps, writing new test suites, and refactoring brittle tests.
• Define the QA playbook, including SOPs, bug severity rubrics, release checklists, and quality metrics that future team members will follow.

Skills

QA strategy

Automation frameworks

Programming languages

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Encompass

Java

Python

C#

JavaScript

Job description

Selby Jennings in Wilmington, NC is partnering with a 50-person fintech startup to hire a Senior/Lead QA Engineer to build the firm's first test automation infrastructure and scale the testing culture.

You will define QA strategy, own automation across product areas, collaborate with engineering, product, and QA teams, and drive automation coverage for APIs, workflows, and integrations.

This is a hands-on, highly technical role with exposure to modern automation frameworks and tooling.