Lead Software Quality Engineer

Acuity Inc.; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Acuity Inc. is seeking a Lead Software Quality Engineer to advance quality practices across the Acuity Spatial Intelligence Division.

You will provide technical leadership and drive improvements in testing, automation, and quality evidence throughout the software lifecycle. You will collaborate with software engineers, product teams, and architects to define quality strategies, mentor the team, and help raise engineering effectiveness through automation and tooling.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of Quality Engineering experience defining quality strategies for complex, integrated software systems, including automation, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Strong programming or scripting experience with the ability to design, review, and guide test automation solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives and influencing decisions across engineering teams without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical risks and recommendations to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define quality strategies with engineers, product, architecture, and other stakeholders.
• Serve as a trusted Quality Engineering expert and coach, providing technical direction on testing, automation, tooling, and quality practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness through automation and tooling, including complex integration and end‑to‑end testing.
• Proactively identify systemic quality risks and drive solutions based on data and quality signals.
• Mentor the Quality Engineering team with guidance, reviews, and knowledge sharing.

Skills

Quality Engineering

Automation

Test automation

Communication

Influence without authority

Education

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Tools

Observability tools

AI-assisted quality tools

Job description

Atrius® is a team of innovative and ambitious people creating cutting‑edge cloud applications that collect, analyze, and mobilize data to make buildings more efficient, sustainable, and easier to navigate. From the world’s largest airports and enterprise campuses to cutting‑edge venues, building owners and operators leverage Atrius technology to optimize energy resources, reach their sustainability goals, and deliver digital precision over physical spaces.

Atrius is a proud part of the Acuity Inc. portfolio, a global industrial technology company serving the world’s leading higher education, aviation, retail, and enterprise organizations. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come… for our customers, our communities, and our planet.
Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market‑leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light, and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting and Lighting Controls (ABL) and the Intelligent Spaces Group (ISG), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.
We are positioned at the intersection of sustainability and technology. Our businesses develop technology that helps save our customers energy and reduce their carbon emissions. We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and location‑aware applications.

Job Summary

We're seeking a Lead Software Quality Engineer to help shape and advance Quality Engineering practices across the Acuity Spatial Intelligence Division, providing technical leadership and driving meaningful improvements in how we build and deliver quality software.

This person will provide technical leadership for Quality Engineering, drive continuous improvement in how quality is built throughout the software development lifecycle, and help teams establish effective strategies for testing, automation, and quality evidence.

Key Tasks & Responsibilities (Essential Functions)

• Partner with software engineers, product, architecture, and other stakeholders to define effective quality strategies, identify risks, and build quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Serve as a trusted Quality Engineering expert and coach, providing technical direction and helping teams make risk‑based decisions on testing, automation, tooling, and quality practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve engineering effectiveness through automation, tooling, testability, and process improvements, including automating complex integration and end‑to‑end scenarios where appropriate.
• Proactively identify systemic quality risks and improvement opportunities, using data and quality signals to investigate problems and drive solutions to implementation.
• Raise the technical capability of the Quality Engineering team through mentoring, technical guidance, reviews, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback.

Skills and Minimum Experience Required

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience.
• 5+ years of Quality Engineering experience defining quality strategies for complex, integrated software systems, including automation, integration, and end‑to‑end testing.
• Strong programming or scripting experience with the ability to design, review, and guide test automation solutions.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical initiatives and influencing decisions across engineering teams without direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical risks and recommendations to technical and non‑technical audiences.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Experience with observability or production quality signals.
• Experience with AI‑assisted software development or quality engineering tools

We value diversity and are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regards to race, color, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity or national origin, disability, pregnancy, religion, covered veteran status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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