QA Team Lead
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Summary
Hands-on QA Team Lead owning end-to-end quality across Sidelines Group's web, mobile, and backend products — defining QA strategy, building test automation infrastructure, and partnering with Engineering and DevOps on CI/CD and release readiness, while leading the QA team with roughly 70% hands-on work.
- Own end-to-end quality across Sidelines products, including web and mobile applications, backend services, embedded partner integrations, tracking systems and data flows.
- Define and continuously improve the QA strategy, including regression coverage, release gates, risk assessment and production validation.
- Architect, develop and maintain scalable test automation across UI, API and end-to-end system workflows.
- Establish quality processes that identify defects and requirement gaps early in the development lifecycle.
- Collaborate closely with Engineering, Product and DevOps to improve testability, CI/CD integration, deployment reliability and release readiness.
- Analyze product requirements, challenge assumptions and proactively identify edge cases, dependencies and technical risks.
- Lead, mentor and develop QA engineers while remaining deeply involved in hands-on automation and technical problem-solving.
- Drive continuous improvements in automation effectiveness, test stability, defect prevention and overall delivery quality.
- Take ownership of quality-related technical decisions, tooling and release recommendations.
Requirements
- 6+ years of QA experience across complex, production-grade systems, including frontend, backend, APIs and third-party integrations.
- 4+ years of hands-on test automation experience, including designing, building and maintaining automation frameworks.
- 2+ years of experience leading QA engineers, with end-to-end ownership of quality and release readiness.
- Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript or a comparable language, with experience in modern automation tools. Playwright is a significant advantage.
- Solid understanding of API testing, databases, CI/CD pipelines, debugging and distributed system interactions.
- Proven ability to design risk-based testing strategies, prioritize automation coverage and improve release confidence.
- Strong analytical thinking, technical independence, ownership and cross-functional communication skills.
- Ability to balance technical execution (approximately 70%) with team leadership and strategic quality initiatives.