Lead QA Engineer
Core
Lead QA Engineer guiding global quality strategy for hardware, firmware, mobile apps, cloud services, and AI-powered features using AI-based tools and intelligent automation.
Role type
Senior IC Lead QA Engineer (Hardware/IoT/AI)
Builds
Reliable consumer wearable devices (smartwatches) and companion mobile apps for families
Domain
Consumer Electronics / IoT / AI/ML
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Test strategy & leadership, AI/GenAI tooling for QA, Test automation (UI/API/Performance), DevSecOps, Risk-based testing, Agile/Waterfall, Hardware & OS testing, API testing (REST/gRPC/GraphQL), Microservices, Data pipelines
Preferred skills
ISTQB Advanced Test Manager, AWS DevOps Engineer, GCP Cloud Developer
Technologies
Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Robot Framework, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Bitrise
Responsibilities
Define and evangelize holistic QA vision blending manual, automated, and AI-augmented testing; Establish quality KPIs and continuously improve; Mentor and scale distributed QA team; Review specs and derive risk-based, AI-generated test scenarios; Build and maintain automated test suites; Pilot and integrate GenAI platforms for test-case authoring and defect triage; Enhance CI/CD pipelines for parallelized test execution; Implement security and privacy test automation.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities