#22380 - Quality Engineering Lead (Automation)

#22380

• Quality Engineering Lead (Automation) 3.4 3.4 out of 5 stars Atlanta, GA $120,000
• $130,000 a year Qualitest 92 reviews $120,000
• $130,000 a year

Date:

1 May 2026

Company:

Qualitest Group Country/Region:

US Are you interested in working with the World's leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company? Ready to advance your career, team up with global thought leaders across industries and make a difference every day? Join us at Qualitest! We are looking for a Quality Engineering Lead (Automation) to join our growing team in United States Location

• Atlanta, GA (hybrid) Top 3 Must haves: 1.

salesforce 2. automation & 10 years of exp, including leading a team 3. retail domain

Job Description:

The Quality Engineering Lead is accountable for product quality outcomes end-to-end, embedding quality as a first-class engineering discipline within a product team. This role ensures that reliability, resilience, security, and customer experience are designed into each product while enabling rapid, safe delivery. The Quality Engineering Lead partners equally with Product Management, Product Design, and Engineering to define what success, prevent defects, and continuously improve customer trust and system integrity. Core Accountabilities Product Quality Outcomes Own product level quality outcomes, including reliability, usability, performance, accessibility, and defect escape rates. Define and operationalize quality OKRs aligned to product and business outcomes. Ensure quality risks are visible, quantified, and actively managed not deferred. Quality Strategy & Engineering Establish, Design, and implement the quality strategy for the product, including: Test automation at all levels (unit, integration, contract, E2E) Performance, scalability, and resilience testing Security and compliance validation Shift quality left into discovery, design, and development phases. Ensure testability is a core architectural requirement. Product Team Partnership Operate as a full partner within the Product Triad. Participate in discovery to identify quality risks early through prototypes, experiments, and pre-mortems. Influence product decisions by articulating quality tradeoffs with customer and business impact. Engineering Enablement & Standards Define and enforce quality engineering standards, frameworks, and tooling. Embed automated quality gates into CI/CD pipelines. Partner with Engineering Leads to improve design for observability, resilience, and failure isolation. Defect Prevention & Continuous Improvement Lead root cause analysis for escaped defects and incidents. Accountable to drive systemic improvements, not one off fixes. Reduce manual testing dependency through automation and tooling leverage. Team Leadership & Talent Development Build and lead a high-performing Quality Engineering capability. Coach and lead by example other quality engineers to think like product engineers. Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous learning. Stakeholder & Enterprise Alignment Communicate quality health, risk, and trends to executives in outcome-oriented language. Align product quality practices with enterprise security, risk, and compliance expectations. Advocate for quality investments with clear ROI and risk-reduction framing. Decision Rights Quality strategy, tooling, and automation approaches for the product. Definition of quality gates and release readiness criteria. Risk-based release recommendations. Hiring and performance input for Quality Engineering roles. Success Measures (Outcome-Focused) Reduction in escaped defects and customer-reported issues. Improvement in reliability, performance, and availability metrics. Automation coverage and pipeline quality signal strength. Faster, safer release cycles with reduced rework. Team capability growth and quality maturity progression. Mindset & Behaviors Treats quality as a design and engineering responsibility, not a phase.

Outcome-obsessed:

customer trust over test counts. Pragmatic, risk-based, and data-driven. Comfortable challenging teams when quality is at risk—even under delivery pressure. Strategic Product & Commercial Enablement Capabilities Demonstrated ability to create and execute innovative, technology-led strategies that enable Customer and Commercial functions within a Fast-Moving Consumer Packaged Goods (FMCG) environment, including sales, marketing, customer service, and route-to-market operations. Deep, hands-on expertise in full-stack engineering and Salesforce platform development, including modern front-end frameworks, API-driven back ends, cloud infrastructure, and Salesforce ecosystems (Sales, Service, Experience, and custom platform extensions), with an emphasis on scalable, secure, and performant solutions. Extensive experience leading technology experimentation—from hypothesis and rapid prototyping through production deployment—delivering deployable product outputs that validate customer value, operational impact, and technical feasibility. Proven track record of defining measurable business outcomes (e.g., revenue growth, cost reduction, cycle-time improvement, customer satisfaction, adoption, and productivity gains) and being directly accountable for achieving those outcomes through technology and product delivery. Required Experience & Capabilities Bachelor's degree preferably in computer science or related field or equivalent work experience in the Product Operating Model. 8-12+ years in Quality Engineering, Test Engineering, or Software Engineering with strong quality leadership. Proven success embedding quality in product-led, continuous delivery environments. Deep expertise in test automation, CI/CD integration, and modern quality tooling. Strong understanding of system architecture, distributed systems, and failure modes. Experience influencing engineering and product decisions without direct authority. Benefits Why QualiTest? Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace

• we are one, we are many at Qualitest. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. We have more than 40% women and around 120 different nationalities. Local and global opportunities
• we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career. Clear view of your career and progression with the company
• Qualitest is growing massively (since 2021
• tripled our employees base
• we now have more than 8,000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us.

Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers.

Save your earnings and prepare for your future by enrolling in our 401k plan where Qualitest will match your contributions accelerating your savings plan. Take care of health with enrollment into one of our competitive healthcare benefits. Qualitest will match towards your HSA if you choose to participate. Never stop experimenting and learning with QCraft

• our Learning & Development platform: 50,000+ courses, 300+ virtual labs, mentorship and leadership programs, professional tribes, sponsored certifications, and much more.

Stay active and get rewarded with our Corporate Wellness Program. We pay your Gym membership and giving you opportunities to Earn additional vacation times for attendance the gym! Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program's. Refer and earn

• tap your network for net-worth. We recognize our employees work via our Qudos platform
• You can earn bonuses and spot awards by celebrating your and your peers' achievements. Planning a vacation? Looking for car insurance? Get access to Qualitest Employee Perks for discounts on anything from travel to electronics. With so many offerings the savings are endless! A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $120,000
• $130,000.

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