Lead Quality Engineer: AI-Driven Test Automation

8 West Consulting

United States

Remote

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

8 West Consulting is hiring a hands-on Lead Quality Engineer to advance test automation and AI-enabled quality engineering across enterprise client teams. You will establish pragmatic direction, help projects adopt repeatable practices and lead improvements to testing capability while delivering automation, dependable test data, and quality support on live engagements.

This is not strategy-only or people-management; you will lead by building, coaching and delivering hands-on work across

Qualifications

Has led substantial testing improvements across several teams, apps or workstreams.
Strong coding, debugging and automation skills with production test suites.
AI-assisted testing on real enterprise projects with measurable results.
Built reusable test datasets and patterns for relational/integrated systems.
Ability to set patterns across UI, API, integration, data and regression tests.
Experience testing .NET, SQL Server and Azure applications, with pipelines.
Broad experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman and CI/CD.
Built practical roadmaps and gained cross-team support for improvements.
Able to influence leaders and coach engineers without authority.

Responsibilities

Lead cross-team transformation and phased adoption of automation and AI-assisted testing.
Stay hands-on: write and debug UI, API, integration and data tests.
Define quality engineering principles and guide tool choices across projects.
Build reusable test data capability with builders, fixtures and seeding.
Scale AI-enabled testing and establish safe-use practices.
Create lightweight patterns for frameworks, CI/CD, reporting and governance.
Develop engineering capability by pairing with testers and developers.
Influence senior stakeholders on quality investments and trade-offs.
Own outcomes: measure adoption, regression effort, test stability and release confidence.