Head of Quality Engineering (Remote - Work from Anywhere)

Responsibilities

• Quality framework definition: own coverage standards (unit, service, integration, end-to-end), gate criteria, and the quality contribution to the function-level Definition of Done. Aligned with Head of Engineering on backend and Head of Frontend Engineering on client-side.
• Coverage baselines: define measurable coverage thresholds per service and per tribe, with trend visibility, and drive adoption across teams.
• Pre-release veto authority: hold and exercise the authority to block releases when quality gates are not met.
• Own the automated tooling that makes this veto self-triggering rather than dependent on a single person.
• AI-assisted test tooling: define and drive the framework for automated test generation, regression coverage, integration test tooling, and the agentic QA pipeline. You are the designer and driver; implementation is a cross-functional effort with Platform, backend, web, and mobile engineers.
• SAT enablement: produce the training, documentation, tooling, and templates that let Stream Aligned Team engineers do quality work themselves, without a separate QA function.
• Test environment strategy: partner with Head of Platform Engineering on dedicated QA environments, test data management, and integration test infrastructure.
• Quality posture reporting: own the metrics like defect escape rate, coverage trends, release veto rate, AI tooling adoption progress, and percentage of releases requiring no manual quality intervention.
• Security testing integration: partner with Security on SAST, DAST, and dependency scanning as components of the quality gate.

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