Quality Assurance Engineering Lead

Jobtailor; Reading (Berks County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced QA leader to guide a small offshore team and elevate testing across delivery areas. You will define standards, build automated suites, and drive release readiness.

The role emphasizes Playwright with Python today and a path toward a TypeScript framework, along with collaboration across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years in QA, software testing, and quality engineering, including at least 2 years leading QA engineers or offshore teams.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks and modern quality engineering practices.
• Hands‑on experience with Playwright required; TypeScript experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with API testing, integration testing, regression testing, and release readiness.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a small offshore QA engineering team with day‑to‑day guidance and prioritization.
• Establish QA best practices, testing standards, and quality processes across delivery areas.
• Define test planning, regression testing, smoke testing, release validation, defect management, and metrics.
• Partner with software engineering, product owners, project managers, and stakeholders to align testing with timelines and priorities.
• Modernize Playwright/Python automation toward a scalable Playwright/TypeScript framework.

Skills

QA leadership

Playwright

TypeScript

Python

API testing

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Playwright framework

Python

TypeScript

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach a small offshore QA engineering team, including day‑to‑day guidance, work prioritization, and quality oversight.
• Establish QA best practices, testing standards, documentation expectations, and quality engineering processes across assigned delivery areas.
• Define consistent approaches for test planning, regression testing, smoke testing, release validation, defect management, and quality metrics.
• Partner with software engineering, product owners, project managers, business stakeholders, and other IT teams to align testing with delivery timelines and business priorities.
• Lead modernization of the existing Playwright/Python automation framework toward a scalable Playwright/TypeScript framework.
• Build, expand, and maintain automated test suites for UI, API, integration, regression, and critical business process testing.
• Use AI‑enabled tools where appropriate to support automation conversion, test generation, test data creation, defect analysis, and productivity improvements.
• Support hands‑on testing and automation when needed due to skill gaps, capacity constraints, project complexity, or conflicting priorities.
• Drive continuous improvement in QA process maturity, automation coverage, release confidence, and overall software quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years performing, building, and establishing QA, software testing, and software quality engineering experience, including at least 2 years leading QA engineers, offshore teams, or test automation initiatives.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks and modern quality engineering practices.
• Hands‑on experience with Playwright required; TypeScript experience strongly preferred.
• Experience with Python‑based Playwright automation preferred, especially in environments transitioning to TypeScript.
• Strong understanding of API testing, integration testing, regression testing, functional testing, smoke testing, and release validation.
• Experience establishing QA standards, test strategies, defect processes, quality metrics, and release readiness practices.
• Proven ability to lead, coach, and prioritize work for offshore QA engineers in a fast‑paced delivery environment.
• CI/CD concepts and experience integrating automated tests into build, deployment, or release pipelines.
• SQL or data validation experience to support testing of integrations, APIs, reporting, and internal business applications.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across U.S.–based and offshore teams.
• Experience testing eCommerce platforms, APIs, integrations, internal business applications, or related technologies preferred.
• Retail industry experience preferred.