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# Lead Quality Engineer (Remote)

- **Company:** Teaching Strategies, LLC
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Automation of Tests, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Software Debugging, Software Engineering, Test Management, Strategies of Testing, Playwright
- **Published:** May 22, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=8ee61dadad2ad7b2

## About the Role

Do you have experience in UI?, * Strong software engineering and quality engineering background with leadership experience.

 * Hands-on experience with Playwright and modern automated testing practices.
 * Experience building and scaling quality engineering processes in fast-moving product organizations.
 * Experience using Xray for test management, traceability, and release validation.
 * Strong understanding of shift-left testing, automation strategy, and engineering quality metrics.
 * Experience applying AI-first and agentic development approaches to improve software delivery and operational efficiency.
 * Ability to balance speed, quality, maintainability, and customer impact in a high-velocity environment.
 * Experience leading quality engineering teams in SaaS or cloud-native environments.
 * Experience with security, performance, accessibility, and resilience testing.
 * Experience improving developer productivity, platform quality, or engineering operations.
 * Background in automation engineering, or product engineering leadership.

## Description

We are looking for a hands-on quality engineering leader who treats quality as a core engineering responsibility, not a downstream testing function. This role is ideal for someone who can lead teams, establish scalable quality practices, and actively contribute to automation and delivery while driving fast, reliable product execution.
This is an AI-first role focused on building modern quality engineering processes using automation, agentic workflows, and shift-left engineering practices to improve delivery speed, product reliability, and engineering effectiveness., * Develop and expand agentic engineering capabilities to automate complex workflows, quality validation, and engineering operations.

 * Drive shift-left engineering practices including automation, risk-based testing, release validation, and continuous quality feedback.
 * Remain hands-on with automation, validation strategies, debugging, and delivery workflows.
 * Build and maintain scalable automated testing frameworks using Playwright across UI and API layers.
 * Use AI-assisted development and agentic workflows to accelerate testing, validation, defect analysis, and engineering productivity.
 * Partner closely with engineering, product, and leadership teams to improve release confidence and delivery quality.


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