Lead Quality Engineer, AI-Driven Testing & CI/CD

Yahoo Holdings Inc. in; Mountain View (CA); Hybrid; USD 136,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

Yahoo Sports is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer (Finance) in Mountain View, CA to architect and scale automated testing across web, mobile, APIs, and cloud services. You will drive AI-augmented QA pipelines and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high‑confidence releases.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in quality engineering or SDET roles, deep framework experience (Playwright, Appium, Cypress, Selenium) and strong programming skills in Python/TypeScript/Java.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Quality Management, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of professional experience in Quality Engineering or Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) roles, with a proven track record of architectural leadership.
• Hands-on proficiency with AI-assisted software development and testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, LLM-assisted script generation).
• Deep expertise in building modern, maintainable test automation frameworks using Playwright, Appium, Cypress, Selenium, or similar frameworks.
• Strong expertise in testing mobile applications (iOS/Android), consumer web applications, REST/GraphQL APIs, and microservice architectures.
• Strong programming skills in Python, TypeScript, Java, or scripting languages, with hands-on experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Demonstrated experience establishing quality metrics, performance/load testing strategies, and observability instrumentation (Datadog, CloudWatch, Splunk).

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and maintain scalable test automation frameworks across Web, mobile (iOS/Android), API, and cloud services (IC5 level).
• AI-Augmented Quality Engineering: Architect and deploy AI-driven test automation pipelines to automatically generate test cases, synthesize edge-case data, and accelerate automation script development.
• AI-Powered Diagnostics & Root Cause Analysis: Build automated diagnostic engines that leverage AI and observability tools to analyze execution failures, detect flaky test patterns, and automate root cause investigations.
• CI/CD Quality Gates & Release Assurance: Integrate automated functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing directly into CI/CD pipelines, establishing deterministic quality gates for continued deployment.
• Cross-Squad Quality Leadership: Collaborate upstream with Software Engineers, Architects, and Product Managers during design and code reviews to embed testability, contract validation, and risk mitigation early in the SDLC.
• Defect Triage & Observability Automation: Drive defect management and release risk assessments using AI-assisted triage tools to map test coverage, classify regression trends, and optimize build stability.
• Engineering Standards & Mentorship: Establish enterprise-wide quality engineering standards, champion best practices in test design and contract testing, and mentor senior QEs across Yahoo Sports.

Skills

AI-assisted testing tools

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD integration

Mobile testing (iOS/Android)

REST/GraphQL APIs testing

Programming: Python, TypeScript, Java

Quality metrics & observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Appium

Cypress

Selenium

Datadog

CloudWatch

Splunk

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Job description

Yahoo Sports is seeking a Lead Quality Engineer (Finance) in Mountain View, CA to architect and scale automated testing across web, mobile, APIs, and cloud services. You will drive AI-augmented QA pipelines and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high‑confidence releases.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in quality engineering or SDET roles, deep framework experience (Playwright, Appium, Cypress, Selenium) and strong programming skills in Python/TypeScript/Java.