Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Elios AI is seeking a Lead QA Automation Engineer to ensure quality in AI-accelerated engineering projects. This role involves leading a team of QA Automation Engineers, managing the quality assurance process, and directly engaging with clients to deliver high-quality software solutions.
Responsibilities
- Own the release-quality signal and keep a human accountable for it as AI accelerates every layer
- Lead two nearshore QA Automation Engineers: direct their work, review their tests, and hold the pod to a consistent quality bar
- Build and maintain Playwright end-to-end coverage in TypeScript with the Playwright MCP and Claude Code, using behavior-first test names and assertions tied to real user outcomes
- Run the agentic QA workflow: research the change, plan the risks, inspect the live product, turn scenarios into repeatable coverage, run it through a deterministic CLI, and diagnose failures (product bug vs test bug vs locator drift vs ticket drift)
- Hunt false coverage and fix the tests, not just the symptoms
- Maintain a coverage map and decision log, and pull QA earlier than the final pre-release checkpoint
Skills
- Around 5 years in QA and test automation with hands-on ownership of a suite
- Strong Playwright plus hands-on Playwright MCP for browser inspection and E2E automation
- Fluent in TypeScript for building and maintaining test suites
- Fluent with Claude Code (or equivalent) for AI-assisted test generation, repair, and diagnosis; AI fluency is essential, not optional
- Solid grasp of behavior-first testing and what makes coverage honest
- Prior experience leading or mentoring other automation engineers
- Prior client-facing or embedded consulting work, comfortable partnering closely with a client team
- Experience wiring automated suites into CI
- Performance and accessibility testing, familiarity with Jira
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