Lead Quality Engineer

Clearly Agile Inc.; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Clearly Agile Inc. in Tampa is looking for a Lead Quality Engineer to drive the quality strategy for their Platforms & Engineering team. In this role, you'll establish and maintain testing practices that leverage automation and AI, ensuring products are ready to ship across various applications and tools.

Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in QA, particularly with automation, and a robust understanding of web applications and APIs. Clearly Agile values growth, teamwork, and quality in delivering services to clients.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering experience.
• 2+ years building or maintaining automated tests.
• Experience testing web applications and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Own quality strategy for web applications and APIs.
• Lead the testing practice integrating automation and AI.
• Ensure release readiness and effective defect lifecycle management.

Skills

QA/Test Automation experience

Automated test building

Experience with modern web applications

Establishing QA practices

Tools like Playwright, Cypress, Selenium

Jira and Confluence proficiency

Test coverage creation

AI-assisted QA tools familiarity

Troubleshooting tests

Understanding of release readiness

Job description

Looking for a Lead Quality Engineer for a Platforms & Engineering team to own how to prove products are ready to ship across our web applications, HubSpot workflows, APIs, internal tools, and product analytics. This isn't traditional manual QA, and it isn't the last line of defense. You'll set the quality strategy and lead it through tools and processes pairing strong QA fundamentals with modern automation and AI‑assisted testing so we release faster, catch defects earlier, and build a testing practice that scales as we grow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA, Test Automation, or Quality Engineering experience.
• 2+ years of experience building or maintaining automated tests.
• Experience testing modern web applications, APIs, integrations, and business workflows.
• Has established or significantly matured a QA/automation practice — testing standards, coverage strategy, tooling — not just operated inside one someone else built.
• Experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, or similar.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence in an Agile/Scrum environment.
• Experience creating regression, smoke, integration, and acceptance test coverage.
• Strong ability to translate requirements and acceptance criteria into clear test plans and automated validation.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted QA tools, test generation, self‑healing tests, or low‑code/no‑code automation platforms.
• Ability to troubleshoot failed tests, isolate defects, identify flaky tests, and improve test reliability.
• Strong understanding of release readiness, defect lifecycle management, regression risk, and test coverage.
• Self‑directed — can set the quality agenda and drive it without day‑to‑day direction — and communicates clearly with Product, Design, and Engineering.

Company Overview

ClearlyAgile is one of the fastest growing Agile companies in the Tampa Bay area. We foster career growth and are focused on having fun while delivering quality products and services to our clients.

Values

• Show Your Passion – Have passion for what you do. Be an active learner with a commitment to grow. Attend and participate in events!
• Be a Champion of Agile – Spread the word. Back it up with examples, case studies, and data points. Lead by example.
• Teamwork – Be cooperative and collaborative while maintaining a team‑first mindset.
• Customer‑centric – Always focus on the client and their customers. See the world from their perspectives.
• Quality – Maintain a sense of pride in the quality of your work and the collective work of the team.
• Be a Leader – Empower yourself to make decisions and don’t be paralyzed by fear of failure.

Equal Opportunity

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to a diverse workforce.