Principal Quality Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Take charge of and enhance LawnStarter's comprehensive quality engineering roadmap.

• Create a quality accountability framework that outlines responsibilities for engineers, Engineering Managers, and Product Managers.

• Develop testing strategies encompassing unit, component, contract, API, end-to-end, mobile, performance, load, and accessibility testing.

• Design and improve AI-driven quality tools for test generation, code review, and quality guidance.

• Manage CI/CD and testing infrastructure, which includes quality gates, end-to-end and visual regression pipelines, performance budgets, and mobile test automation.

• Determine which checks should block deployments versus those that can run asynchronously while maintaining efficient pipelines.

• Integrate monitoring with incident response and create actionable quality dashboards.

• Offer technical mentorship to QA engineers across teams and provide input to their Engineering Managers for performance evaluations.

• Direct the technical trajectory of the QA squad and standardize quality practices across departments.

• Enhance test stability, reduce pipeline costs, and balance synchronous versus asynchronous execution.

• Release new AI-driven quality features and promote ongoing improvements in quality engineering.

⛳️ Requirements

• Experience in AI-driven quality engineering, particularly in using AI for test generation.

• Proficiency in establishing agentic tooling such as Claude Code or MCP-based workflows.

• Background in designing testing approaches suited for team maturity levels.

• Practical experience in building and maintaining component, contract, API, end-to-end, and performance test suites.

• Familiarity with CI pipelines, test automation, and testing infrastructure.

• Capability to coach engineers on testing methodologies and conduct enablement sessions.

• Skill in hands-on development of tooling and CI pipelines.

• Ability to influence and mentor QA engineers across teams without initially managing headcount.

• Experience in hiring, coaching, and performance management for a QA or engineering team is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment.

• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): Assessed based on outcomes rather than hours worked.