Lead Platform Quality Engineer

Remote from: USA
Annual salary: Undisclosed
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Department: Software Engineering
Employment type: Full Time,
Job posted: 12 Sep 2025
Apply before: 12 Oct 2025
Experience level: Senior
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The Lead Platform Quality Engineer will report to the Sr. Director, Software Engineering in First Dollar. This role is responsible for defining and driving the organization’s quality vision and leading software quality initiatives throughout the product lifecycle for both front-end and back-end system components. The Lead Platform Quality Engineer is driving and implementing test automation frameworks, processes, and strategies. As well as leading the adoption of industry-standard quality practices while fostering a culture of quality across the organization.

Define and drive quality metrics, quality gates, and acceptance criteria for projects to align with business objectives
Establish and continuously improve quality standards, tooling, and processes across teams and projects
Build and foster a strong quality culture across the organization, including skill gap analysis, career pathing, and targeted development for QE team members
Share knowledge and mentor other team members, ensuring the QE team’s skills evolve to meet business needs
Work closely with Product, Engineering, and leadership teams to influence product decisions, challenge requirements, and ensure quality is considered throughout the delivery lifecycle
Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g. functional, integration, end-to-end) on a variety of platforms (e.g. mobile, web)
Facilitate User Acceptance Testing
Drive automated testing initiatives across different layers of the application (frontend, backend, data, infrastructure)
Contribute to various elements of automated testing across different layers of the application (frontend, backend, data)
Produce test estimates for testing activities and ensure alignment with project goals
Participate in code and test case reviews and ensure requirements traceability & proper coverage
Assist project team in determining appropriate quality goals and acceptance criteria
Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education & Experience:

7-10 years of experience in Software QE with at least three years as a Test Lead or Manager. Experience should extend across both manual and automated testing in a variety of Agile delivery models
5+ years of professional coding experience in TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, or Java with hands-on coding expected for automation and tooling development
5+ years of UI Test automation experience (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Skills & Abilities:

Experience defining and implementing quality metrics, quality gates, and organizational quality standards
Diverse experiences in leading test strategy, test planning, test case design, and execution
Delivery leadership within Agile methodology projects (e.g. Scrum)
Proficiency using common test management tools
Proven experience across manual and automated testing in a variety of Agile delivery models
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Technical Proficiency and Skills:

Proficiency in:
- E2E testing using modern tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium
- API Testing and automation
- js
- React
- TypeScript
- Apollo GraphQL
- Git Version Control System
- PostgreSQL
- Google Cloud
- Jest
- CI/CD Pipelines
Experience with one or more cloud platforms, preferably GCP
Experience with cloud-native testing approaches
Excellent communication and teamwork skills
Great attention to detail and organizational skills
Experience delivering quality for individual and institutional client facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third-party integrations
Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodology