Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. OpenMined is a nonprofit on a mission to build the public network for the world's non-public data. They are looking for a QA Lead to collaborate across teams to build their quality function, ensuring reliability, security, and data integrity in their products.
Responsibilities
- Own the delivery of engineering’s quarterly goals, ensuring consistent, high-impact delivery while effectively managing resources
- Work collaboratively in each product team’s codebase to access current test coverage, highest-risk surfaces, and its production readiness gap to produce a prioritized testing roadmap that engineers can see and execute against
- Establish testing patterns for a multi-language stack, implementing frameworks that make testing as easy as writing features
- Establish and socialize quality policies, minimum quality gates, and production-readiness standards collaboratively and iteratively with the product teams
- Spend regular time within each team’s workflow, pair on test design for complex features, review PRs for test quality, and making testing collaborative, not imposed
- Build and own what runs inside the CI/CD pipeline quality gates (testing suites, linting rules, reporting) supported by the Platform Lead
- Build automated PR checks and contributor CI gates to prepare for open-source contribution quality management
- Champion high-quality software delivery through the establishment of robust tools, processes, & methodologies, and by providing hands-on technical leadership via individual development contributions and code reviews
- Create technical documentation and processes that support high velocity and knowledge transfer
Skills
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience demonstrating capabilities to operate as an engineering peer within squads, not just as a testing specialist
- Python proficiency required
- Has integrated testing frameworks from zero in at least two ecosystems
- Has defined quality standards and production-readiness criteria for an engineering organization
- Fluency integrating CI/CD quality gates into engineering workflows to encourage adoption and sustained use
- Has introduced testing culture to one or more teams in order to establish a teams capabilities and best practices
- Located within ET +/- 1 to enable rapid team-oriented communication, learning, and feedback cycles as well as facilitate engagement with remainder of OpenMined engineering team, globally
- TypeScript and Go strongly preferred
Benefits
- US Healthcare Benefits: We offer healthcare benefits for employees located in the United States
- Mission-Driven Work: Be part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, focused on social impact rather than profit, offering the chance to make a meaningful difference in the world.
- Open Source Contribution: Make a real impact by contributing to an Open Source project that benefits a broad community.
- Collaborative Global Team: Join a dynamic, international team that values collaboration and diversity.
- Flexible Work Hours: Enjoy the autonomy to structure your work hours around what best fits your life and productivity.
- Fully Remote Work: Work from anywhere in the world—no office or commute required.
- Results-Driven Culture: Thrive in an environment that values efficiency and results over bureaucracy.
- Flexible Paid Time Off: Take the time you need with flexible vacation days, alongside recognition of local national holidays.
- Competitive Compensation: Receive competitive pay, with equity in salary across different regions.
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