QA Engineering Lead, Product Quality Assurance

Meta•Menlo Park, CA

5d•$163,000 - $224,000

About The Position

Meta is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering Lead to shape quality strategy for core and business products, including Instagram, Facebook, Meta AI, WhatsApp, Ads, and Privacy. The role sets the vision for product quality across engineering organizations and drives it through complex, ambiguous programs spanning teams and geographic locations. It partners with engineering, infrastructure, and product leaders to improve quality at Meta's scale and influence senior stakeholders across regions on high-impact decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
10+ years of quality engineering and/or test engineering experience.
Experience leading quality strategies and complex programs across multiple teams and geographic locations, including distributed onsite and offshore teams.
Experience with QA processes and methodologies, including planning, designing, and executing tests, and knowledge of performance and stress testing.
Experience implementing and maintaining quality test automation for mobile and web applications.
Experience coding in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++, or an equivalent programming language.

Nice To Haves

Experience working across multiple global, cross-functional engineering teams spanning time zones and cultures.
Experience driving organization-wide quality initiatives and influencing engineering organizations at large scale.
Experience defining scope, setting priorities, and driving progress on projects with incomplete or evolving requirements.
Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, such as prompt/context engineering or agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
Experience leveraging data to improve product quality and drive measurable outcomes.
Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders at all organizational levels, including executive communications.
Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices, such as risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
Experience with industry-standard test automation tools and frameworks.

Responsibilities

Define and own multi-year product quality strategy across one or more product organizations, influencing direction beyond the immediate team.
Lead complex, cross-functional quality programs spanning multiple products and geographic locations, aligning teams across time zones, partners, and priorities.
Set the technical direction for test strategy on business-critical, high-ambiguity initiatives to ensure product correctness and reliability before launch.
Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to drive scalable automation strategies that prevent regressions and support long-term product reliability.
Identify systemic quality gaps and opportunities, and drive organization-wide adoption of processes, tooling, and a quality-driven engineering culture.
Establish quality metrics and standards to measure test effectiveness, efficiency, and overall product quality.
Assess non-functional product quality, including i18n, l10n, accessibility, performance, and stress, with specialized teams and translate findings into direction for product teams.
Mentor and grow quality and test engineers, raising the bar on quality practices across the organization.
Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership across geographies, to secure buy-in on critical quality decisions.