QA Tech Lead

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor automation engineers, provide technical guidance to the wider testing team, and foster a culture of quality excellence and continuous improvement.
• Support skill development across the team, including cross-training manual testers in automation (e.g., Playwright Codegen, low-code contributions, and AI-assisted scripting with tools such as Claude) and ensuring automation engineers understand product domain and end-user workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including Development, Customer Success, Product Management
• Design and Product
• Support across multiple time zones.
• Define the overall risk-based test strategy, focusing testing effort where regulatory and customer risk is highest, with clear criteria for which tests are automated, which remain manual, and what doesn't need a test at all.
• Own automation test plans and standards across all Xogene product releases.
• Create and maintain quality metrics, KPIs, and dashboards on testing progress and potential blockers, and provide regular updates to the Director of Engineering.
• Define test scope, objectives, success criteria, and time and resource estimates with stakeholders, and ensure comprehensive coverage through effective test case design and review.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate quality risks throughout each sprint cycle, including during pre-release dry runs.

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