baselane - QA Lead
Requirements
• 7+ years in software quality, including 2+ years leading QA teams while remaining hands-on. • Strong, current hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks with Playwright (or Cypress, Selenium, or similar), using TypeScript/JavaScript. You still enjoy writing tests every week. • Experience testing web applications and APIs (GraphQL for main product, REST for partner endpoints), including test data management and environment setup. • Proven track record coaching manual testers into automation and integrating tests into CI/CD workflows. • Hands-on experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to write and maintain tests, with the judgment to validate their output. • Strong communication skills and the ability to influence quality practices across engineering and product. • Experience testing AI/LLM-powered features: building eval sets (golden datasets), defining pass criteria for non-deterministic output, and running evals in CI to catch regressions from prompt or model changes. • Experience in FinTech, banking, payments, or integrations with Stripe, Plaid, or BaaS providers. • Experience with performance, load, or security testing. • Experience with visual regression, contract testing, or test observability tooling.
Responsibilities
• Build automation hands-on: Write, review, and maintain Playwright tests yourself, covering critical user flows, APIs, and regression suites. You’ll be one of the most active contributors to our test codebase. • Coach and grow the QA team: Lead our manual QA team through pairing, code reviews, and hands-on mentorship, upskilling team members into automation and setting clear expectations for quality ownership. • Own the automation framework: Define the architecture, patterns, and conventions of our test framework so it stays fast, reliable, and easy for both QA and engineers to contribute to. • Integrate quality into delivery: Embed automated tests into CI/CD pipelines so every change is validated before it reaches production, and partner with DevOps on test environments and data. • Test with AI agents: Use tools like Claude Code and Cursor to accelerate test creation, maintenance, and debugging while owning the reliability of the output, and teach the team to do the same. • Define quality standards: Establish acceptance criteria, test plans, and release readiness standards with Product and Engineering, and track meaningful quality metrics (coverage, escaped defects, flakiness, cycle time). • Protect what matters most: Ensure high confidence in money-movement, banking, and compliance-sensitive flows where correctness is non-negotiable.
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