Lead Software Development Engineer in Test
Core
Lead QA governance and technical validation across frontend, middleware, and backend layers for a complex onboarding platform, ensuring independent quality validation and evidence traceability.
Role type
Senior Lead Software Development Engineer in Test (QA)
Builds
Technical governance frameworks, API contract testing architectures, and comprehensive evidence dossiers for client handoff.
Domain
Software Quality Assurance / API Testing / Data Traceability
Required skills
API contract testing architecture, layered system validation, knowledge graphs, entity-relationship modeling, QA leadership, cross-functional coordination, technical evidence synthesis, dependency management, stakeholder communication, automation testing, manual testing
Preferred skills
Security assessment engagements, complex multi-week QA leadership, evidence modeling expertise
Technologies
API contract testing tools, knowledge graph platforms, entity-relationship modeling tools, automation frameworks, network evidence analyzers
Responsibilities
Define and enforce QA delivery standards and quality gates across workstreams; Own and guide the architecture of API contract testing; Review frontend constraint dictionaries and FSM/state-model outputs; Review API schema reconstructions and network evidence for accuracy; Coordinate QA Analysts, SDETs, and Test Operations teams; Manage dependency resolution and cross-layer reconciliation; Serve as escalation point for technical discrepancies; Compile and quality-check technical evidence dossiers; Identify evidence gaps and drive rework; Monitor delivery health and technical risks; Prepare technical evidence packages for client handoff; Provide mentorship to SDETs and QA Analysts.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities
