Lead Quality Engineer

Flexton Inc.; Blue Ash (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Flexton Inc. seeks a Principal Quality Engineering Lead / Quality Engineer Level 3 to drive transformational quality engineering initiatives across Product, Engineering, Release Management, and Operations.

This senior individual contributor role requires deep technical depth, systems thinking, and influencing skills. The role emphasizes leading cross-functional quality programs, defining QE strategies, and enabling AI-enabled improvements across the SDLC.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to lead QE strategy and programs across multiple domains.
• Expertise in modern QE practices, automation, CI/CD and SDLC governance.
• Ability to review code, designs, and architectures for quality.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technical roadmaps.
• Define QE strategies, standards, frameworks, and architectures.
• Identify systemic causes of recurring quality, release, and operational issues.
• Drive root-cause analysis and sustainable solutions.
• Guide teams on automation, testing, release quality, observability, environments, and risk management.
• Review technical designs, frameworks, code, and implementation approaches.
• Influence architecture decisions through a quality and reliability perspective.
• Identify and implement AI-enabled opportunities across the SDLC.
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and determine practical engineering applications.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, SRE, Release Management, and QE leadership.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads.
• Drive organizational change through influence rather than authority.

Skills

Technical QE Leadership

Cross-Functional Influence

AI Fluency in Engineering

Job description

We are seeking a Principal Quality Engineering Lead / Quality Engineer Level 3 to drive transformational quality engineering initiatives across Product, Engineering, Release Management, and Operations teams. This is a senior individual contributor role requiring strong technical depth, systems thinking, organizational influence, and problem-solving skills.

Top 3 Skills

• Technical Quality Engineering Leadership – Strong background in modern QE, automation, CI/CD, release quality, and SDLC practices, with the technical depth to review code, frameworks, and architecture.
• Cross-Functional Influence & Problem Solving – Ability to work across multiple teams, solve ambiguous problems, identify root causes, and drive organizational change without direct authority.
• AI Fluency in Engineering – Comfortable using AI to evaluate ideas, solve technical problems, improve testing and engineering practices, and work effectively across different technology stacks.

Required Experience

Technical Leadership

• 10+ years of experience in Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, Platform Engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• Experience leading large-scale technical initiatives without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices and distributed systems.
• Ability to review code, technical designs, automation frameworks, and architectural approaches.

Quality Engineering

• Strong experience defining test strategies across multiple test levels.
• Deep understanding of test automation frameworks and CI/CD.
• Experience with release quality, risk assessment, defect prevention, and production readiness.
• Understanding of observability, test environments, quality gates, and software delivery governance.

AI Fluency

• Hands-on experience applying AI tools to engineering workflows.
• Ability to identify AI opportunities beyond basic code generation.
• Understanding of AI strengths, limitations, risks, and governance.
• Ability to use AI to improve testing effectiveness, engineering productivity, and delivery speed.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple engineering teams.
• Translate business objectives into actionable technical roadmaps.
• Define QE strategies, standards, frameworks, and architectures.
• Identify systemic causes of recurring quality, release, and operational issues.
• Drive root-cause analysis and sustainable solutions.
• Guide teams on automation, testing, release quality, observability, environments, and risk management.
• Review technical designs, frameworks, code, and implementation approaches.
• Influence architecture decisions through a quality and reliability perspective.
• Identify and implement AI-enabled opportunities across the SDLC.
• Evaluate emerging AI capabilities and determine practical engineering applications.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Architecture, SRE, Release Management, and QE leadership.
• Mentor senior engineers and technical leads.
• Drive organizational change through influence rather than authority.