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Stuut · 10 hours ago

Lead Software Engineer in Test

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$180K/yr - $220K/yr

7+ years exp

Stuut is transforming accounts receivable for B2B companies, making collections smarter and faster. They are seeking a Lead Software Engineer in Test to drive the strategy and execution of automated testing across their platform, ensuring high-quality releases and influencing the engineering quality culture.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Financial ServicesFinTechSoftware

Responsibilities

Set the Quality & Automation Strategy: define the long-term vision for automated testing, including frameworks, tooling, coverage strategy, and quality gates

Build & Scale Automation Frameworks: design and implement robust, maintainable automation across integration, UI, and end-to-end layers

Drive Test Coverage Planning: lead test planning with product squads, ensuring critical functionality is identified, prioritized, and automated effectively

Stabilize Pipelines & Reduce Flakiness: own the health, speed, and reliability of test pipelines — leading efforts to reduce flaky tests and strengthen feedback loops

Architect & Maintain Test Environments: collaborate with Infrastructure to build and maintain scalable, realistic test environments aligned with customer use cases

Improve Developer Velocity: optimize CI/CD test stages, reduce cycle times, and introduce automation and tooling that accelerates safe deployments

Automate New Feature Testing: partner with engineering teams throughout the development lifecycle to define test strategy and build automation for new features

Lead Root Cause Analysis & Triage: guide teams through systematic debugging of failures, ensuring issues are resolved at their true source

Influence Engineering Quality Culture: promote strong testing patterns, testability principles, and quality-first thinking across teams

Mentor & Level Up the Team: coach engineers in automation best practices, framework design, troubleshooting, and quality ownership

Qualification

Test AutomationAutomation FrameworksCI/CDPythonTypeScript/JavaScriptPlaywrightCypressPytestREST API TestingCloud-native InfrastructureDebuggingLeadershipCollaborationMentoring

Required

7+ years of experience in test automation or software engineering, with at least 3 years in a senior or lead test engineering role

Architected or maintained large-scale automation frameworks supporting rapid iteration across backend, frontend, and async systems

Fluent in Python and TypeScript/JavaScript, and experienced with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, pytest, or REST API testing frameworks

Understand how to design high-signal, low-maintenance automated test suites for modern stacks including FastAPI, Vue.js, and event-driven systems like Inngest

Improved reliability of CI pipelines in environments using Turborepo, Docker, Vercel, and AWS EKS

Comfortable with cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Kubernetes, RDS PostgreSQL) and testing distributed systems

Strong understanding of CI/CD and know how to optimize automation workflows for speed, signal, and stability

Can convert product requirements into a clear, executable test strategy across multiple layers of the stack

Enjoy collaborating with Product, Backend, Frontend, and DevOps teams to elevate quality and reliability

Thrive in a role that combines technical depth, automation architecture, and leadership influence in a fast-moving environment