Remote QA Engineering Lead — Build AI-Driven Quality from Zero

Marathon Talent; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Talent is partnering with a high-growth education and fintech technology company to hire a QA Engineering Lead who will build the Quality function from the ground up. This foundational leadership role defines QA strategy, automation frameworks, AI-assisted testing, and quality standards across mission-critical financial and operational workflows.

You will work closely with backend, platform, and AI teams to embed intelligent testing, anomaly detection, and automated triage into CI/CD

Qualifications

• 7+ years in QA with leadership or automation experience.
• Experience building automation frameworks from scratch.
• Deep knowledge of API, backend and integration testing.
• Experience with CI/CD, microservices and async systems.
• Fluent in Spanish and English.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the QA automation and quality strategy end-to-end.
• Design automated testing for high-impact financial flows (payments, billing, reconciliation, SIS).
• Partner with AI engineers to implement AI-assisted test generation and anomaly detection.
• Define QA standards, release criteria, and quality gates.
• Embed quality practices early in development (shift-left).
• Hire, mentor, and scale the QA team over time.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation frameworks

API testing

CI/CD

Microservices

English/Spanish

Tools

FastAPI

Node.js

PostgreSQL

AWS/GCP

Kubernetes

Kafka/SQS

Job description

Marathon Talent is partnering with a high-growth education and fintech technology company to hire a QA Engineering Lead who will build the Quality function from the ground up. This foundational leadership role defines QA strategy, automation frameworks, AI-assisted testing, and quality standards across mission-critical financial and operational workflows.

You will work closely with backend, platform, and AI teams to embed intelligent testing, anomaly detection, and automated triage into CI/CD