QA Lead Engineer

Deepgram•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

You’ll be the technical backbone of the QA function—building automation, running tests, and ensuring every release is qualified. As QA Lead Engineer, you’ll directly protect product reliability and customer trust while raising the bar for testing across engineering.

Requirements

4–6 years experience in QA or Software Engineering
Strong background in test automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, PyTest, Jenkins)
Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps tooling
Solid understanding of exploratory testing and edge case design
Ability to communicate clearly with product and engineering teams
Detail-oriented, systematic, and motivated to prevent regressions

Nice To Haves

Audio compression, codec or analysis experience is a bonus

Responsibilities

Test Execution & Evaluation: Run daily/weekly test cycles across multiple products and environments
Automation Ownership: Build, maintain, and extend automated test frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines
Test Case Management: Author, update, and optimize test cases across product lines
Cross-Product Quality Support: Partner with product squads to enable feature validation and regression coverage
Release Candidate Signoff: Participate in release readiness reviews and provide test evidence for release evaluation and qualification
Edge Case & Exploratory Testing: Hunt for failure modes beyond the “happy path"
Metrics & Reporting: Contribute to QA dashboards and track product-level KPIs
Customer Feedback Integration: Help map production issues into regression tests