QA Lead & Automation Coach (AI Testing)

Remote; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Baselane is hiring a hands-on QA Lead to own quality end-to-end in our AI-first engineering environment. You’ll write Playwright tests, lead manual testers turning into automation, and mentor engineers to improve test coverage for our banking and fintech platform.

You’ll split time between coding and team-building: building automation, refining the QA strategy, and collaborating with Engineering, Product, Design, and DevOps to ensure reliable releases with secure money-movement flows.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality, including 2+ years leading QA teams while remaining hands-on.
• Experience testing web applications and APIs (GraphQL for main product, REST for partner endpoints), including test data management and environment setup.
• Proven track record coaching manual testers into automation and integrating tests into CI/CD workflows.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents to write and maintain tests, with the judgment to validate their output.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence quality practices across engineering and product.
• Experience testing AI/LLM-powered features: building eval sets and running evals in CI to catch regressions.

Responsibilities

• Build automation hands-on: Write, review, and maintain Playwright tests yourself, covering critical user flows, APIs, and regression suites.
• Coach and grow the QA team: Lead our manual QA team through pairing, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship, upskilling into automation.
• Own the automation framework: Define the architecture, patterns, and conventions of our test framework for speed, reliability, and ease of contribution.
• Integrate quality into delivery: Embed automated tests into CI/CD pipelines so changes are validated before production.
• Test with AI agents: Use Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate test creation and maintenance while ensuring reliability.
• Define quality standards: Set acceptance criteria, test plans, and release readiness metrics with Product and Engineering.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation testing

API testing

CI/CD

Test data management

Web applications

Tools

Playwright

Claude Code

Cursor AI agents

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Baselane is hiring a hands-on QA Lead to own quality end-to-end in our AI-first engineering environment. You’ll write Playwright tests, lead manual testers turning into automation, and mentor engineers to improve test coverage for our banking and fintech platform.

You’ll split time between coding and team-building: building automation, refining the QA strategy, and collaborating with Engineering, Product, Design, and DevOps to ensure reliable releases with secure money-movement flows.