Key skills
JavaScriptTypeScriptPythonJavaJestMochaCypressPlaywrightSeleniumJUnitJenkinsGitHub ActionsCircleCIGitHubAgileCI/CDLeadership
About this role
StackAdapt is the leading technology company that empowers marketers to reach, engage, and convert audiences with precision. They are seeking a talented Lead Quality Engineer who is passionate about software quality and test automation to enhance software quality and accelerate defect detection and prevention capabilities in a cross-functional agile environment.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and mentor a team of 3-5 talented quality engineers within platform engineering
- Act as a hands-on lead and participate in test strategy and test automation
- Promote QE best practices and drive process improvements
- Develop E2E integrated test plan and identify optimization opportunities
- Develop and implement test scripts and automation tools to address issues and deliver high impact quality improvements
- Work closely with Engineering Managers, Product Managers and Designers to ensure requirements and priorities align
- Utilize metrics to help improve process and drive team’s performance
- Measure appropriate product quality metrics to make informed decisions that enhance overall product quality
- Conduct interviews to attract and identify potential high performing candidates
- Balance and prioritize projects to maximize efficiency and ensure company objectives are achieved
Requirements:
- Proven track record of delivering results and leading growing, high-impact teams
- At least 5+ years of testing experience including test automation
- Experience with at least 3 direct reports in a leadership role
- In-depth experience with API & UI test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Mocha, Jest or Junit
- Fluency in at least one of Javascript, Typescript, Python, or Java is a plus
- Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Github Actions, CircleCI
- Strong understanding of scalable system design for web-based APIs and backend processing systems
- In-depth understanding of QA methodologies in a software company with short release cycles
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and coaching them on testing plans and strategies, and guiding them through the execution
- Passion to build a positive and fun engineering culture