Lead Quality Engineer

SiriusXM; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading media company seeks a Lead Quality Engineer to enhance quality standards and practices within its engineering team. You will oversee and guide testing initiatives, mentor junior QA members, and contribute to software design improvements while ensuring high-quality product delivery. This hybrid role offers flexibility and the chance to work closely with cross-functional teams in New York.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in quality assurance or 5 years with a Bachelor's degree.
• Experience testing consumer software applications with web technologies and microservices.
• Mentoring and oversight of less-experienced QA team members.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality engineering initiatives and support testing efforts across scrum teams.
• Track quality assurance metrics, provide risk analysis, and mentorship.
• Collaborate with developers during the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Software testing

Bug prevention strategies

Testability

Technical issue resolution

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS logging

Jira

HP ALM

SQL Server

SOAP UI

Swagger

Job description

Lead Quality Engineer - (employer: Sirius XM Radio LLC; job location: New York, NY) - Lead quality engineering initiatives under guidance of full SDLC team manager, leveraging knowledge of software testing to influence better software design, promote best practices, bug prevention strategies, testability, and other advanced quality concepts across products. Review and audit test cases with team members for constructive analysis and feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk. Track and communicate testing efforts, including quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status. Identify risks, concerns or challenges with testing efforts, providing alternative options, workarounds or resolution. Adjust and prioritize decisions as projects move through the lifecycle. Engage and work with the appropriate teams for resolutions. Monitor, lead, and support testing efforts across scrum teams. Work closely with analysts and software engineers in the development phase to provide guidance and oversight for test case development. Help identify opportunities for risk-based testing and while maintaining quality levels. Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced QA team members. Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Engineering, plus three years of experience in the position offered or a quality assurance engineering position or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Engineering, plus five years of progressive post-Bachelor’s experience in the position offered or a quality assurance engineering position. All required experience must have included performing consumer software application testing using knowledge of web applications, microservices, and web services architecture; working with Angular front ends; providing oversight and mentorship to QA team members; isolating and troubleshooting technical issues across the full technology stack by leveraging software testing methodologies; and using testing and reporting tools AWS logging, Jira, HP ALM, Confluence, Adobe Target, SQL Server, SOAP UI, Putty and Swagger. #LI-DNI. This role entails hybrid work, with time split between working in our New York, NY office and flexibility to telecommute from another U.S. location. Salary: $150,000-$160,000/year. Apply online at www.siriusxm.com/careers. Ref P-2025-20.

P-2025-20

Lead Quality Engineer - (employer: Sirius XM Radio LLC; job location: New York, NY) - Lead quality engineering initiatives under guidance of full SDLC team manager, leveraging knowledge of software testing to influence better software design, promote best practices, bug prevention strategies, testability, and other advanced quality concepts across products. Review and audit test cases with team members for constructive analysis and feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk. Track and communicate testing efforts, including quality assurance metrics such as defects, defect counts, test results and test status. Identify risks, concerns or challenges with testing efforts, providing alternative options, workarounds or resolution. Adjust and prioritize decisions as projects move through the lifecycle. Engage and work with the appropriate teams for resolutions. Monitor, lead, and support testing efforts across scrum teams. Work closely with analysts and software engineers in the development phase to provide guidance and oversight for test case development. Help identify opportunities for risk-based testing and while maintaining quality levels. Provide guidance and mentoring to less-experienced QA team members. Requirements: Master’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Engineering, plus three years of experience in the position offered or a quality assurance engineering position or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Applied Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, or Computer Engineering, plus five years of progressive post-Bachelor’s experience in the position offered or a quality assurance engineering position. All required experience must have included performing consumer software application testing using knowledge of web applications, microservices, and web services architecture; working with Angular front ends; providing oversight and mentorship to QA team members; isolating and troubleshooting technical issues across the full technology stack by leveraging software testing methodologies; and using testing and reporting tools AWS logging, Jira, HP ALM, Confluence, Adobe Target, SQL Server, SOAP UI, Putty and Swagger. #LI-DNI. This role entails hybrid work, with time split between working in our New York, NY office and flexibility to telecommute from another U.S. location. Salary: $150,000-$160,000/year. Apply online at www.siriusxm.com/careers. Ref P-2025-20.