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Lirio · 2 hours ago

Lead, Software Quality Assurance- Contract-to-Hire

United States

Contract

Remote

Senior Level

$130K/yr - $150K/yr

5+ years exp

Lirio is a technology/software company that specializes in behavioral science, data science, and machine learning to enhance consumer engagement and health interventions. The Software QA Lead Engineer is responsible for overseeing quality strategy and execution across Lirio’s platform, leading a shift-left quality approach, and mentoring QA engineers to ensure reliable software releases.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Health CareInformation TechnologyMachine Learning

Comp. & Benefits

No H1B

Responsibilities

Lead the design, implementation, and execution of comprehensive test strategy across APIs, services, event-driven workflows (Kafka), and UI surfaces

Own and evolve automated test coverage (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end) and maintain a risk-based manual test strategy where automation is not practical

Ensure test coverage for functional, regression, integration, performance, and reliability testing (timeouts, retries, idempotency, failure modes)

Advocate for quality engineering practices (TDD where appropriate, CI quality gates, code review standards, and testability in design)

Define and maintain quality gates in CI/CD (e.g., minimum coverage thresholds, contract test pass, critical path E2E pass, vulnerability scan pass where applicable)

Partner with Cloud/SRE to validate release readiness via observability (logging, metrics, tracing) and operational dashboards

Embed quality and testability considerations into feature and system design by reviewing application logic, APIs, data models, event contracts, and UI workflows in partnership with engineers

Establish and enforce standards for automation quality, including flakiness reduction, stabilization practices, clear ownership, and expectations for timely remediation of broken or unreliable tests

Define and document QA processes and best practices

Collaborate with product owners and developers to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria

Participate in backlog refinement and sprint planning to ensure testability of features

Facilitate agile ceremonies as needed

Build and maintain shared QA practices, documentation, and knowledge-sharing mechanisms (playbooks, training, cross-coverage) to avoid single points of failure across squads and releases

Standardize testing approaches for event-driven systems, including message schema validation, backward compatibility, replay scenarios, idempotency, ordering assumptions, and failure handling (Kafka and similar messaging technologies)

Stay current with industry trends, tools, and technologies in software testing

Promote continuous improvement and innovation within the QA team

Evaluate and adopt tooling that improves cycle time (local test environments, ephemeral environments, test data management)

Support production releases, participate in incident triage, and drive root cause analysis with Engineering, SRE/Cloud, and Customer Operations

Track defect escape trends and drive corrective actions (test additions, gating changes, process improvements)

Triage and resolve defects, collaborating with development and support teams

Qualification

Test automationUI automationPerformance testingObservability toolingCI/CD toolsVersion controlCloud platformsScripting languagesAgile methodologiesLeadership skillsOrganizational skillsCommunication skillsProblem-solving skillsAdaptability