Lead, Software Quality Assurance

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Lead, Software Quality Assurance in USA

Lirio
Full time
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USA
10/22/2026
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Remote

Responsibilities

Lead comprehensive test strategy and execution across APIs, services, event-driven workflows, and UI surfaces.
Own automated unit, integration, contract, and end-to-end test coverage while maintaining risk-based manual testing where appropriate.
Define and maintain CI/CD quality gates, including coverage thresholds, contract-test results, end-to-end tests, and applicable vulnerability scans.
Partner with Cloud/SRE to validate release readiness through logging, metrics, tracing, and operational dashboards.
Review application logic, APIs, data models, event contracts, and UI workflows for quality and testability.
Establish QA automation standards, reduce test flakiness, document processes, and drive timely remediation of unreliable tests.
Mentor QA engineers and build shared testing practices, documentation, playbooks, training, and cross-coverage across squads.
Standardize testing for event-driven systems, including schema validation, backward compatibility, replay, idempotency, ordering, and failure handling.
Collaborate on requirements, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement, sprint planning, and agile ceremonies.
Support production releases, incident triage, root cause analysis, defect resolution, and corrective actions based on defect escape trends.

Requirements

5–7+ years of related experience.
Bachelor’s degree in a related field is preferred.
Experience with API and service test automation, including JUnit/TestNG for JVM services and PyTest for Python services.
Experience with UI automation such as Cypress, Playwright, or Jasmine.
Experience with performance testing tools such as Gatling, k6, or JMeter.
Experience with contract testing such as Pact or an equivalent tool.
Familiarity with observability tooling and concepts including Datadog and OpenTelemetry.
Experience with CI/CD tools and processes, version control, cloud platforms, scripting and programming languages, databases/SQL, Kafka, and Kubernetes.
Leadership, coaching, risk-based testing, release decision-making, organization, communication, collaboration, adaptability, and problem-solving skills.
Ability to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders and improve systems iteratively in ambiguous environments.

Benefits

Medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and AD&D insurance benefits.
401(k) with company match.
Ten paid holidays, quarterly company closure dates, and a holiday-week company closure.
Flexible time off policy and work-from-home arrangement.
Six weeks of paid parental leave.
Remote work is available, with a hybrid option for employees located in Tennessee.
New colleagues must spend their first week onsite at a Tennessee office; travel expenses are paid.

Salary: $130k - $150k/yr

Lirio

Lirio builds a behavioral science–driven AI platform that delivers personalized “Precision Nudging” digital interventions to engage consumers and close gaps in preventive and chronic care. Customers are healthcare organizations—such as health systems and payers—that use it to improve outreach and...

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