QE Engagement Lead

Acunor Inc; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Acunor Inc. in Charlotte, NC is seeking a QE Engagement Lead to drive hands-on quality validation for modernization and migration projects. You will code daily, review automation, and lead client-facing QE engagements across .NET, Angular, AWS, SQL Server and PostgreSQL.

The ideal candidate will bring deep Playwright expertise, experience building AI-driven testing solutions, and strong data-migration validation skills in a client-facing environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in QA/QE with client-facing leadership experience.
• Strong SQL skills with SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Experience testing .NET/.NET Core, Angular, APIs and integration workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead client-facing QE engagements from front, not a distant manager.
• Code daily and review automation with hands-on input.
• Validate migrations with source-to-target reconciliation and ETL checks.

Skills

Agentic AI in QE

Playwright Automation

Data Migration Testing

Tools

Azure DevOps CI/CD

GitHub Copilot

Job description

QE Engagement Lead

Location: Charlotte, NC (3 Days Onsite)

Open to non-local candidates willing to relocate

Role Overview

Seeking a highly hands-on QE Engagement Lead to drive quality validation for application modernization and migration initiatives involving .NET, Angular, AWS, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL.

This is not a Test Manager role. The ideal candidate must be technically strong, capable of coding, reviewing automation, validating migrations, and leading client-facing QE engagements.

Mandatory Skills (Non-Negotiable)

Agentic AI in Quality Engineering

• Hands-on experience building/customizing AI agents for test automation, test generation, defect triage, and impact analysis.
• Experience with tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Kiro, Cursor, or similar.

Playwright Automation

• Strong hands-on experience building, debugging, and maintaining Playwright automation frameworks.
• Ability to solve real-world automation challenges, not just provide high-level guidance.

Data Migration Testing

• Proven experience validating migrations involving SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Expertise in source-to-target reconciliation, ETL validation, data quality checks, schema mapping, and functional parity testing.

The ideal candidate is:

• A hands-on automation engineer who can still code daily.
• Deeply experienced with Playwright automation.
• Capable of building or customizing Agentic AI testing solutions.
• Strong in migration and data validation testing.
• Comfortable challenging technical issues with clients and engineering teams.
• Able to lead from the front rather than managing from a distance.
• Experienced working within a client's existing frameworks and governance models.

Additional Requirements:

• 12+ years in QA/QE with client-facing leadership experience.
• Strong SQL skills with SQL Server and PostgreSQL.
• Experience testing .NET/.NET Core, Angular, APIs, and integration workflows.
• Hands-on Azure DevOps CI/CD experience.
• Ability to work within existing client frameworks and governance models.
• Excellent stakeholder communication and reporting skills.

Preferred Skills

• AWS (RDS, Lambda, S3, ECS/EKS, API Gateway, CloudWatch)
• REST Assured, Postman, Karate, Selenium
• Datadog, Splunk, CloudWatch
• Legacy modernization and migration programs
• Distributed onsite/offshore delivery model