Lead QA Engineer

Job Description

Hello, We're Built In

What We're Up To

Built In is creating the largest global platform for tech professionals a place where millions come every month to stay ahead of trends, grow their careers, and discover companies they believe in. We're not just a job board we're the go-to destination for tech talent to engage with the future of their industry.

Our community spans the globe, and our 1,800+ customers range from breakout startups to Fortune 100 giants. They partner with us to tell authentic stories about their cultures, showcase opportunities, and attract the most in-demand talent whether local, global, or remote. In doing so, Built In fuels the hiring pipelines of the world's most innovative companies and advances the tech industry's ability to shape a better future.

What You'll Be a Part Of

While we've been around for 14 years, we operate with the urgency and ambition of a startup shipping fast, staying close to customers, and constantly evolving. As a category leader in the tech talent marketplace, we're looking for a sales leader who can drive performance, scale what's working, and coach a team that's core to our next chapter of growth.

You'll be joining a team that values curiosity, accountability, and being good humans first. Our leadership team has worked together for 4 to 10+ years, and we've built a culture rooted in trust, transparency, and shared success. If you're looking to do the best work of your career alongside people who care deeply about the mission and each other you'll fit right in.

We're looking for a Lead QA Automation Engineer (Offshore - India)

As the Lead QA Automation Engineer, you will take ownership of the quality assurance efforts, leading a team of engineers and driving innovation in test automation and quality processes. You will mentor junior team members, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and develop automation strategies that enable scalability and improve testing efficiency

How you'll contribute

- Own and evolve the end-to-end quality strategy, balancing test coverage, risk mitigation, and velocity. You'll set direction for test architecture, frameworks, and AI-powered automation initiatives that scale with the business.
- Lead Agile QA practices across multiple teams, ensuring test efforts are seamlessly integrated into iterative development cycles and aligned with product priorities and customer impact.
- Architect, implement, and maintain advanced automation frameworks (primarily using Playwright) that support UI, API, mobile, performance, and cross-browser/email testing in CI/CD pipelines.
- Design and deploy AI/ML-enhanced capabilities including LLM-driven test generation, self-healing locators, test flakiness prediction, and intelligent test selection based on code coverage and user behavior data.
- Spearhead testing initiatives across accessibility, performance, and regressionowning quality gates that span the entire release lifecycle, not just isolated test cases.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, and SRE to embed quality as a shared responsibility, ensuring that quality metrics and signals are integrated into planning and deployment decisions.- - Champion best practices in test engineering by creating reusable libraries, internal tools, and standards that reduce duplication, improve test reliability, and raise engineering maturity.
- Continuously evaluate and adopt emerging tools and technologies in AI automation, telemetry, and observability to improve test speed, signal, and maintainability.
- Mentor and upskill QA engineers and developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and experimentation in intelligent automation and modern quality

What you need

- 6+ years of progressive experience in QA automation and test engineering, driving strategy, architecture, and execution for automation at scale.
- Deep expertise in modern test frameworks, with a strong preference for Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) in complex web environments. Experience with complementary tools like Cypress or Postman is a plus.
- Proven track record designing, building, and evolving automation frameworks that operate reliably in CI/CD pipelinesemphasizing modularity, maintainability, and parallel execution at scale.
- Hands-on experience with AI-augmented testing practices, such as:
- Using LLMs (e.g. GPT-4, Claude) for test case generation and documentation.
- Implementing ML-based test prioritization or flaky test detection.
- Building intelligent test selection or orchestration systems using production analytics or code coverage data.
- Strong testing breadth: Front-end (DOM/UI flows), back-end (API contracts, service logic), mobile, email, performance, and security/compliance.
- Experience mentoring and leading QA or SDET teams, with the ability to coach engineers in advanced test automation, advocate for quality culture, and influence engineering practices across orgs.
- Fluency in Agile or Kanban environments, with experience embedding automation into iterative delivery and release pipelines.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills, with a strong bias toward root cause analysis and system-level thinking.

What We Value

We're revolutionizing tech recruitment. So we question everything, because the best answers sit just to the right of a question mark. That's our heritage as a disruptive company as a company whose future depends on our capacity to innovate with a sense of drive, purpose and urgency. If you join Built In, you will work from this set of values:

Be Inclusive, Always. We're committed to a culture where all people are respected, have a say and can be their whole selves. We will uplift and advocate for one another. Always.

Be Unreasonably Passionate. Our passion is borderline obsessive, and we're ok with that. No one ever built anything great on a meh. We work with outsized passion to fulfill our mission.

Be Humble. You don't have all the answers. Luckily, you don't have to. Don't worry about being right. Be humble instead.

Stay Curious. Curiosity is a springboard to the future. It can transform the wisp of an idea into a breakthrough. We ask what if. We work with wonder. It's how we innovate.

Lead with Solutions. Question everything. But offer solutions as you do. Raise issues. But propose a few answers. For every hole you poke, offer a way to patch it up.

Own the Result. We have no time for blame or shame. When you stumble, own it, learn from it + get back to business.

Do More. Do more than your job description. Take initiative. Take charge. No job is beneath you, and no job is too big. Be a leader and do more do whatever it takes.

Be Inclusive, Always

Research shows that women and other marginalized groups tend to apply to roles only when they check every point on a job description. We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of qualifications and this role is aligned with your career trajectory.

Built In is an equal employment opportunity employer. Qualified candidates are considered for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Built In is guided by principles of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). We are committed to this work over the long-term, but here's some of what's in place today:

We have five thriving ERG groups: Built In For The People, BuiltOut, United We Parent, Women United in Tech and Built In Tribe.

We have a dedicated Director, HR + Inclusion who oversees our DEI roadmap, which provides our annual metrics, goals and initiatives.

We are proud to be led by a woman CEO and founder, and that more than half of our managers and employees identify as women

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