QA Automation Lead

Summary

Join Restore Hyper Wellness as their QA Automation Lead and drive the transformation of their quality assurance practices. In this hands-on leadership role, you will establish automation standards and frameworks using Playwright, contributing to automation development while mentoring a distributed QA team. You will collaborate with engineering and product teams, building QA processes from the ground up. This role requires strong programming skills, experience with various testing methods, and leadership experience managing distributed teams. The position offers a hybrid or remote work option in Austin, TX, with a salary range of $90k-$105k annually. Restore Hyper Wellness offers a variety of benefits, including comprehensive health insurance, 401k matching, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• 5+ years of QA/Test Automation experience with at least 2 years in a leadership or mentoring capacity
• Expert-level Playwright proficiency with demonstrated experience building automation frameworks from scratch
• Strong programming/scripting skills in one or more languages like JavaScript/ TypeScript, Python, or Go
• Quality Assurance Expertise including manual, unit, integration, regression, UAT, performance, and automated testing methods
• Non-Functional Testing experience covering performance, load, stress, security, accessibility, and usability testing
• Mobile app testing experience, including manual and automated testing for Android and iOS applications using tools like Appium, Detox, or XCUITest, with deployment and distribution via TestFlight, Google Play, and the Apple App Store
• Cross-Browser & Cross-Platform Testing to ensure consistent functionality and user experience across different browsers and devices
• CI/CD Integration Experience to integrate automated tests into pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions
• Database validation skills querying and validating data from SQL and NoSQL databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB or MongoDB
• Agile/Scrum expertise with proven ability to integrate QA processes seamlessly into sprint cycles and development workflows
• Leadership experience managing distributed teams, including remote/nearshore collaboration and cross-timezone coordination
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience

Responsibilities

• Establish Automation Framework: Design and implement comprehensive test automation standards using Playwright, creating scalable frameworks for web, mobile, and API testing across our technology stack
• Hands-on Development: Write, maintain, and optimize automated test scripts while contributing 60-70% of your time to direct coding and technical implementation
• Sprint Integration & Accountability: Drive QA excellence within Agile sprints by establishing testing timelines, quality gates, and sprint-specific QA processes that ensure testing never becomes a bottleneck to delivery
• QA Thought Leadership: Champion quality-first thinking across engineering teams, advocating for testability in design decisions, and ensuring QA considerations are embedded throughout the development lifecycle rather than treated as an afterthought
• Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a distributed QA team, providing technical guidance, code reviews, and professional development while fostering collaboration across time zones
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Partner closely with engineering, product, and DevOps teams to integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Process Documentation: Create comprehensive testing documentation, standards, and best practices that can be adopted across multiple development teams and technology platforms

Preferred Qualifications

• Healthcare or regulated industry experience with understanding of compliance and data security considerations
• Testing microservices and event-driven systems by validating APIs, message queues and using contract testing to ensure reliable service communication
• Exposure to data analytics tools and frameworks to derive testing insights and monitor application quality
• End-to-End testing for SaaS products, including scalability, reliability, and user experience validation
• Testing ecosystem experience with tools like Jira, TestRail, K6, JMeter, and Playwright's advanced features
• Knowledge of Container orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes, particularly in the context of automated QA pipelines

Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k match up to 4%
• Monthly fitness reimbursement
• Flexible PTO policy
• Complimentary and discounted access to all Restore therapies
• Professional development budget and growth opportunities
• Equity participation in a rapidly growing wellness company