Core QA Team Lead at GM leading the quality assurance team to ensure project quality delivery. Responsible for mentoring team, defining test strategy, and improving processes.
About the role
- Lead QA Engineer at Xsolla, overseeing automation systems and guiding QA engineers for quality software delivery.
Responsibilities
- Define and manage test plans, test cases, and execution schedules for projects.
- Ensure coverage across functional, regression, integration, performance, and security testing.
- Validate deliverables against requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Enforce QA standards, methodologies, and best practices within the team.
- Ensure defects are logged, tracked, and resolved efficiently.
- Monitor metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and release readiness.
- Act as the primary liaison between QA, development, product, and operations teams.
- Provide clear reporting on test progress, risks, and quality status to stakeholders.
- Support cross-functional alignment to ensure quality is embedded throughout the lifecycle.
- Drive adoption of automation frameworks and tools where appropriate.
- Balance manual and automated testing strategies to optimize efficiency.
- Ensure test environments are properly configured and maintained
- Identify gaps in QA processes and propose improvements.
- Stay updated on emerging QA practices and tools, integrating them into workflows.
- Promote a culture of quality ownership across the team.
- Lead the design, development, and maintenance of backend-focused automated test frameworks (Jest, Playwright, custom frameworks, etc.)
- Work as a hands-on IC leader, setting automation standards, driving adoption, and mentoring engineers when needed
- Develop robust automated tests for REST APIs, services, and integrations across monolithic and microservices architectures
- Create and maintain test suites across integration, contract, and end-to-end layers using modern automation practices
- Utilize mocking and service virtualization to isolate systems and increase test reliability
- Collaborate closely with backend developers, DevOps, and product teams to understand system design and ensure complete test coverage
- Review engineering code (PHP/Golang) to better understand logic, identify risk areas, and design stronger tests
- Build CI/CD test pipelines, write and optimize YAML configurations, and ensure automation stability in the delivery flow
- Improve observability and reporting across automated tests (dashboards, logs, alerts, coverage insights)
- Introduce and evaluate tools such as AI-assisted or non AI-assisted testing solutions to improve test development speed and depth of validation
- Act as a quality advocate in architecture discussions, sprint planning, and release readiness reviews
- Lead initiatives that improve engineering workflows, automation reliability, and long-term maintainability
- Support teams in debugging complex production issues and guiding root-cause analysis
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in QA, Agile methodologies.
- 2+ years of experience as a QA Lead
- Expertise in backend/API automation using Jest, Postman, and modern REST testing practices
- Solid experience with Playwright, JEST, Karate, Cucumber or equivalent frameworks
- Strong understanding of monolith architecture and microservices-based systems
- Hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines and working with YAML-based configuration
- Strong understanding of mocking, stubbing, service virtualization, and contract testing (e.g., Pact or similar)
- Experience building test frameworks from the ground up or significantly enhancing existing ones
- Comfortable using AI tools as accelerators while applying critical thinking to validate output
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate across engineering, product, and QA teams
- Proactive, self-driven, and able to take ownership of automation direction with minimal supervision.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- PTO
- a personalized career roadmap for each employee
- investing in professional development through training and educational opportunities
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