Lead Quality Engineer: Playwright, Mobile & AI Testing

W3Global; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

W3Global in Austin, TX seeks a Lead Quality Engineer to drive QA across modern web applications and distributed systems. You will build and maintain Playwright-based automation, coach teams, and collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Architecture to raise release confidence.

The role demands hands-on leadership in Playwright, TypeScript, mobile automation, API testing, and CI/CD integration, with emphasis on AI-assisted testing and observability using tools like New Relic.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in QA/quality engineering leadership.
• Strong hands-on Playwright and TypeScript experience.
• Mobile automation and API testing expertise.
• Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality engineering strategy and testing activities across multiple products.
• Develop and maintain test automation frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, exploratory, API, and user acceptance testing.
• Experience with Mobile Automation.
• Validate REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, UI workflows, and distributed system integrations.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and establish quality gates.
• Leverage AI-assisted testing tools to improve test creation, maintenance, and defect detection.
• Use New Relic and observability tools to monitor application performance and identify quality issues.
• Automate test environments, test data management, and deployment validation.
• Define test strategies, test plans, quality metrics, and release criteria.
• Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with product owners, developers, architects, and DevOps teams.
• Mentor QE engineers and promote quality engineering best practices.

Skills

Playwright

TypeScript

Mobile Automation

API Testing

CI/CD

AI Testing

Observability

Mentoring

QA Strategy

Leadership

Tools

Playwright

New Relic

CI/CD tooling

Job description

W3Global in Austin, TX seeks a Lead Quality Engineer to drive QA across modern web applications and distributed systems. You will build and maintain Playwright-based automation, coach teams, and collaborate with Product, DevOps, and Architecture to raise release confidence.

The role demands hands-on leadership in Playwright, TypeScript, mobile automation, API testing, and CI/CD integration, with emphasis on AI-assisted testing and observability using tools like New Relic.