Software QA Team Lead - Q

Summary

Our team is new, growing, and evolving quickly, and we are hiring across multiple disciplines. We work at the intersection of machine learning, hardware, and software, creating technologies that reshape how people communicate and experience the world around them in everyday life.

Description

Our team is looking for an experienced and highly motivated Team Lead Software QA who is passionate about delivering exceptional product quality. You will lead a team of QA engineers validating complex products that combine software, hardware, backend services, mobile applications, and cloud infrastructure. You will set the quality strategy, develop your team, and take ownership of quality from feature design through customer delivery. We are looking for someone who enjoys understanding complex systems and can quickly move between software, hardware, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Leadership and team management:
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of QA engineers, including hiring, onboarding, performance feedback, and career growth
• Plan and prioritize the team’s work across multiple projects and releases
• Represent QA in planning, design, and release decisions, and report quality status and risks to stakeholders
• Quality ownership:
• Own the quality effort for features and projects from design through release
• Define test plans, test cases, and validation strategies
• Continuously improve testing methodologies, processes, and product quality
• Drive high product quality while continuously improving the customer experience
• Hands-on technical work:
• Validate software functionality across backend services, mobile applications, desktop applications, and hardware components
• Oversee functional, regression, integration, end-to-end, and system-level testing
• Investigate, reproduce, and triage complex software and hardware issues
• Analyze logs, system behavior, and test results to identify root causes and clearly communicate findings
• Work with databases to validate data integrity and troubleshoot backend issues
• Use command line tools and shell environments

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance
• 3+ years of experience leading a QA team
• Experience testing complex software and hardware systems, including embedded devices
• Proven ability to lead testing efforts for complex features and projects
• Strong troubleshooting, debugging, and analytical problem-solving skills
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies and terminology
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience hiring and building QA teams
• Experience working with command-line environments (Linux/macOS preferred)
• Experience working with CI/CD environments
• Experience with scripting languages such as Python or JavaScript, and with test automation frameworks