Qa Team Lead

Summary

Join PandaDoc's Web Engineering team as a QA Lead and guide a team of engineers in automation testing. You will be responsible for leading the technical agenda, enforcing quality gates, reviewing test coverage, and contributing to strategic QA planning. Your duties include developing comprehensive test plans, collaborating with developers, and actively participating in test planning and execution throughout the development lifecycle. This role requires 5+ years of testing experience (2+ as a QA Lead), a Master's degree in a related field, and expertise in API and UI automation testing. PandaDoc offers a competitive salary, work-from-anywhere flexibility, and a supportive culture that prioritizes professional development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in testing, of which 2+ as a QA Lead
• Master's degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field
• Automation activities ownership or leadership experience in a QA automation role
• Experience with the Web tech stack
• Expertise in API, UI automation testing
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Gitlab
• Strong analytical skills, creativity, and attention to detail
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal
• A team player with a proactive, get-it-done attitude and a quick learning ability

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the QA Team inside Web Engineering org
• Lead technical agenda and mentor a team of Web QA engineers, providing guidance and expertise in automation testing
• Enforcing quality gates based on the QA and Release Strategies
• Reviewing the test coverage of Test Cases and User Stories
• Together with the Web Engineering leadership team, work and execute QA strategic planning/developing roadmap
• Monitor and control QA tasks/issues estimations in Weekly releases and sprint activities
• Develop comprehensive test plans including functional, end-user, stress performance, reliability, and usability testing
• Work closely with Developers and Delivery Team on new features, system integration, and performance testing
• Actively participate as an SME in: Test planning for releases, including manual, automation, and non-functional testing
• Actively analyze requirements from a quality engineering perspective and write automated tests
• Execute tests throughout the entire development lifecycle (from development to pre-release and release phases)
• Release scope planning and execution
• QA capacity possibilities for testing provided for different projects (Public Website/Localization/Content changes/A/B Tests etc)
• Bug flow processes improvement and control
• Smoke tests scope development and updating
• Regression tests scope development and execution

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with the Playwright framework
• Experience with Docker/Kubernetes
• Experience with cloud environments such as AWS

Benefits

• An honest, open culture that emphasizes feedback and promotes professional and personal development
• An opportunity to work from anywhere — our team is distributed worldwide, from Lisbon to Manila, from Florida to California
• 6 self care days
• A competitive salary