Staff QA Engineer - Quality Leader & Release Gatekeeper

Grocery-Tv; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Hybrid work model

$1,200 annual learning & development

Unlimited PTO

12 weeks parental leave

DoorDash lunch stipend

Home office stipend

Job summary

Grocery TV in Austin, TX is seeking a Staff Quality Assurance Engineer to own quality across our software platforms, from hands-on testing to scalable QA processes. This role blends individual contributor testing with process ownership, cross-functional collaboration and team growth.

You will lead end-to-end test planning, drive bug triage, coordinate release procedures, and ensure test coverage across configurations, Android Studio, and CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software QA experience with ownership of QA process design.
• Experience leading or facilitating bug triage and prioritization frameworks.
• Track record of influencing quality culture beyond own team—cross-functional buy-in.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end manual test planning and execution across multiple software platforms (functional, regression, exploratory, boundary tests).
• Design, document, and continuously improve QA processes, including bug triage workflows and priority frameworks.
• Serve as primary QA liaison to Engineering and Product, clarifying requirements and translating them into test coverage.
• Coordinate the release process, ensuring procedures are followed and serving as the final QA gate for go/no-go decisions.
• Provide regular testing status reports to stakeholders across Product, Engineering and Leadership.
• Validate functionality across configurations and environments, including feature-flag driven behavior.
• Collaborate with Engineering on CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar) and understand build/deploy status as it relates to test cycles.
• Generate or coordinate test assets/media to support test scenarios.
• Lead bug triage meetings, prioritize issues by impact.
• Write and maintain structured test scenarios and defect documentation in tools like Linear and Google Sheets.
• Ensure defects are logged clearly with root causes tracked as separate tickets.

Skills

QA leadership

Bug triage & prioritization

CI/CD + GitHub Actions

Test documentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Mobile testing (Android)

AI QA tools familiarity

Bug tracking familiarity

Tools

Linear

Jira

GitHub Actions

Job description

Grocery TV in Austin, TX is seeking a Staff Quality Assurance Engineer to own quality across our software platforms, from hands-on testing to scalable QA processes. This role blends individual contributor testing with process ownership, cross-functional collaboration and team growth.

You will lead end-to-end test planning, drive bug triage, coordinate release procedures, and ensure test coverage across configurations, Android Studio, and CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.