Staff QA Software Engineer

OpenMined; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

US Healthcare Benefits

Mission-Driven Work

Open Source Contribution

Collaborative Global Team

Flexible Work Hours

Fully Remote Work

Results-Driven Culture

Flexible Paid Time Off

Competitive Compensation

Job summary

OpenMined is seeking an experienced QA Lead to embed with engineering teams, shaping testing strategy and building the quality function from the ground up. You will write tests, design testability into architectures, and advance tooling to ensure reliable software across a multi-language stack.

You will define quality standards, participate in code reviews, and drive production-readiness across squads. This is a fully remote, mission-driven role with global collaboration and open-source impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Python proficiency required; TypeScript and Go strongly preferred.
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD and production-readiness criteria.
• Ability to read a codebase and design testing strategies.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of engineering’s quarterly goals, ensuring high-impact delivery.
• Access current test coverage and production readiness within each product codebase to guide a testing roadmap.
• Establish testing patterns for a multi-language stack and frameworks that simplify testing.
• Socialize quality policies and minimum gates with product teams.
• Pair on test design for complex features and review PRs for test quality.
• Lead CI/CD quality gates and contribute to tooling and automation.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Go

CI/CD

Test frameworks

Code reviews

Tools

Test automation

Job description

About the Role

We’re looking for aQA Leadto joinOpenMined, a nonprofit on a mission to buildthe public network for the world’s non-public data— unlocking 1,000,000x more information across every scientific field and industry, and ensuring it stays open, equitable, and accessible to all.

Our engineering team is brilliant and mission-driven, and we are looking for someone to join it who can collaborate across teams to build our quality function from the ground up. Our products are gaining customer traction and we strive to ensure reliability, security, and data integrity.

This isnot a traditional QA role.You won’t sit in a separate team writing test scripts against specs. You’ll beembedded with engineers— pairing on test design, reviewing architecture for testability, building frameworks and tooling, and creating the habits that make quality a natural part of how every engineer works. You’ll set the organizational quality strategy: what gets tested, how deeply, at what layer, and what constitutes “done.”

The right person for this role isan engineer who chose to specialize in quality— someone who can read a codebase, identify the riskiest surfaces, design a testing strategy, write the tests, build the framework, and teach others to do the same. You earn credibility by contributing code and finding real bugs, not by writing policies and expecting compliance.

If you’re energized by building something from nothing, teaching through doing, and making an entire engineering organization better at shipping reliable software — we’d love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of engineering’s quarterly goals, ensuring consistent, high-impact delivery while effectively managing resources.
• Work collaboratively in each product team’s codebase to access current test coverage, highest-risk surfaces, and its production readiness gap to produce a prioritized testing roadmap that engineers can see and execute against.
• Establish testing patterns for a multi-language stack, implementing frameworks that make testing as easy as writing features.
• Establish and socialize quality policies, minimum quality gates, and production-readiness standards collaboratively and iteratively with the product teams.
• Spend regular time within each team’s workflow, pair on test design for complex features, review PRs for test quality, and making testing collaborative, not imposed.
• Build and own what runs inside the CI/CD pipeline quality gates (testing suites, linting rules, reporting) supported by the Platform Lead.
• Build automated PR checks and contributor CI gates to prepare for open-source contribution quality management.
• Champion high-quality software delivery through the establishment of robust tools, processes, & methodologies, and by providing hands-on technical leadership via individual development contributions and code reviews.
• Create technical documentation and processes that support high velocity and knowledge transfer.
• 5+ years of professional software engineering experiencedemonstrating capabilities to operate as an engineering peer within squads, not just as a testing specialist.
• Python proficiency required; TypeScript and Go strongly preferredto ensure cross-team codebase understanding and ability to contribute beyond just test suites.
• Has integrated testing frameworks from zeroin at least two ecosystems.
• Has defined quality standards and production-readiness criteriafor an engineering organization.
• Fluency integrating CI/CD quality gatesinto engineering workflows to encourage adoption and sustained use.
• Has introduced testing culture to one or more teamsin order to establish a teams capabilities and best practices.
• Located within ET +/- 1 to enable rapid team-oriented communication, learning, and feedback cycles as well as facilitate engagement with remainder of OpenMined engineering team, globally.
• US Healthcare Benefits: We offer healthcare benefits for employees located in the United States
• Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world.
• Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community.
• Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity.
• Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity.
• Fully Remote Work: Work from anywhere in the world—no office or commute required.
• Results-Driven Culture: Thrive in an environment that values efficiency and results over bureaucracy.
• Flexible Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with flexible vacation days, alongside recognition of local national holidays.
• Competitive Compensation: Receive competitive pay, with equity in salary across different regions.