Quality Engineering Lead

E-470 Public Highway Authority; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

E-470 Public Highway Authority in Colorado seeks a strategic, hands-on Quality Engineering Lead to champion QA excellence, testing automation, and system reliability across transit and tolling platforms. You will lead quality standards for high-throughput systems, including API integrations and mobile apps.

Join a fast-paced public sector team focused on robust testing frameworks, observability, and data integrity, collaborating with product, development, and external agency partners.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of software quality engineering experience.
• 2+ years in a lead, senior, or management capacity overseeing distributed systems, APIs, or high-volume platforms.
• Deep expertise in modern test automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured).
• Strong background in building observability tools, telemetry, and monitoring (Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and feature flag management.

Responsibilities

• Lead Quality Strategy: Define, implement, and scale end-to-end testing strategies and quality gates across SDLC.
• Drive Test Automation: Champion automation to accelerate releases with zero-defect deployments.
• Observability & Telemetry: Establish dashboards and anomaly detection with data teams.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Validate data flows and interoperability with product managers and partners.
• Mentorship & Team Leadership: Guide QA and engineers and set automated quality metrics.
• Risk & Compliance Management: Oversee pre-prod readiness and regression testing for critical rollouts.

Skills

Playwright

Selenium

RestAssured

Observability

Telemetry

Dynatrace

Splunk

Prometheus

Grafana

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Feature flags

Data validation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

RestAssured

Job description

E-470 Public Highway Authority is seeking a strategic, hands-on Quality Engineering Lead to champion quality assurance excellence, testing automation, and system reliability across our core transit and tolling platforms. In this high-impact role, you will lead quality engineering standards for critical, high-throughput systems—including our API integrations, mobile applications, and automated tolling pipelines.

If you are passionate about building robust testing frameworks, driving observability, and leading high-performing engineering teams in a fast-paced public sector environment, we want to hear from you.

• Lead Quality Strategy: Define, implement, and scale end-to-end testing strategies, frameworks, and quality gates across all software development lifecycles (SDLC).
• Drive Test Automation: Champion test automation initiatives (utilizing modern frameworks like Playwright and API testing tools) to accelerate release velocity while ensuring zero-defect production deployments.
• Observability & Telemetry: Partner with software and data engineering teams to establish deep system observability, performance metrics, real-time telemetry dashboards, and anomaly detection.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with product managers, developers, and external agency partners (such as DMV and GAS integrations) to validate data flows, system interoperability, and high-stakes data migrations.
• Mentorship & Team Leadership: Mentor QA and software engineers, foster a culture of quality-first thinking, and establish automated quality metrics and testing standards across the engineering organization.
• Risk & Compliance Management: Oversee pre-production testing readiness, validation protocols, and rigorous regression testing for critical public infrastructure rollouts (e.g., mobile app launches and interoperability programs).
  
• Experience:
  • 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering
  • 2+ years in a lead, senior, or management capacity overseeing complex distributed systems, APIs, or high-volume transaction platforms
• Technical Proficiency:
  • Deep expertise in modern test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Selenium, RestAssured).
  • Strong background in building and utilizing observability tools, telemetry, and monitoring platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana).
  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and feature flag management.
• Analytical Mindset: Proven track record of analyzing complex data validation challenges, managing pre-prod to prod data validation, and turning raw telemetry into actionable engineering improvements.
• Communication: Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to bridge technical details to executive summaries and align cross-functional teams.
  
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.