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