QA Technical Leader (Director) - AI, Cloud & Health

Elios, Inc.; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Elios, Inc. is seeking an experienced QA Technical Leader at the Director level to own quality engineering for health insurer platforms. The role combines hands-on coding with leadership to deliver reliable cloud-native and AI-powered systems.

You will lead QA teams, define automation and AI testing practices, and ensure release quality while communicating risk to senior stakeholders. Travel to Boston is expected.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in software quality engineering with leadership experience
• 3–4 years in healthcare domain (payer/provider/health tech)
• Hands-on coding and mentoring engineers while still writing code
• Clear, confident communication with senior leaders

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of QA engineers and automation specialists, mentoring them through hard technical problems and day-to-day delivery
• Set the technical direction for test automation and AI testing practices across your product or platform area
• Build and review automation frameworks hands-on in Java, Selenium, Playwright, and TypeScript
• Define how the team tests AI agents, LLMs, and ML models, including how to measure quality when outputs aren't deterministic
• Run technical reviews and keep test strategy aligned with architecture decisions
• Own release quality: primary accountability for readiness to ship
• Present quality status and risk to engineering and product leadership
• Partner with architects, engineering leads, and product managers on priorities and tradeoffs
• Embed testing into CI/CD pipelines so quality checks run early and often

Skills

Leadership

Java

TypeScript

SQL

Communication

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

Appium

Cypress

WebdriverIO

REST Assured

Postman

TestNG/JUnit

Maven

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

Elios, Inc. is seeking an experienced QA Technical Leader at the Director level to own quality engineering for health insurer platforms. The role combines hands-on coding with leadership to deliver reliable cloud-native and AI-powered systems.

You will lead QA teams, define automation and AI testing practices, and ensure release quality while communicating risk to senior stakeholders. Travel to Boston is expected.