Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

The role

You will coordinate QA activities across releases and stay hands-on with testing and test automation. You will also improve QA processes, mentor QA team members and help ensure reliable software.

What you will do

• Drive improvement of test automation frameworks and testing processes
• Support and improve automated testing within CI/CD pipelines
• Improve test coverage, reliability and overall product quality
• Evaluate and recommend testing tools, frameworks and technologies
• Help establish and maintain testing standards, documentation and QA best practices
• Promote effective use of AI tools in test automation and QA efficiency
• Coordinate QA activities across releases and lead test planning, execution and validation
• Monitor product quality, identify risks and support incident investigation and root cause analysis
• Give release readiness recommendations balancing delivery timelines with quality
• Mentor QA team members and partner with engineering, product and development teams

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of software QA or testing experience
• Strong experience with both manual and automated testing
• Experience coordinating, mentoring or leading QA teams
• Experience supporting software release cycles and cross-functional product teams
• Experience testing APIs, databases, workflows and web-based interfaces
• Proven track record of improving QA processes, automation coverage and product quality
• Strong expertise in test automation frameworks such as Playwright, Jest or similar tools
• Experience designing, maintaining and expanding automated test suites
• Strong understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, APIs and database interactions
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing workflows
• Familiarity with performance, load and exploratory testing methodologies
• Experience using and building AI Agents and AI tools

Nice to have

• JMeter, LoadRunner or other performance testing tools
• Accessibility testing
• Experience with fintech, subscription billing or eCommerce systems
• Experience leading distributed or remote QA teams
• Experience defining QA metrics, reporting and quality standards
• Experience testing payment systems or transaction flows

About the company

ThriveCart is a no-code sales platform for digital course creators, coaches, entrepreneurs and online businesses. It powers over 65,000 businesses and 12 million enrolled students.