Test and Quality Engineering Lead

RADAR•San Diego, CA

6h•$175,000 - $220,000

About The Position

We are seeking an experienced Test and Quality Engineering Lead to drive our quality culture and testing infrastructure across the organization. This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on shaping how engineering teams think about quality, building scalable test infrastructure, and establishing practices that ensure reliability at massive scale. You'll work across a complex distributed system processing over 100 billion events per day spanning cloud, edge compute, and mobile devices. This is an engineering leadership position without management responsibilities. You'll influence through expertise, coaching, and technical excellence by helping teams across the organization build quality into their development processes rather than testing it afterward. Your success will be measured by the growth and maturity of quality practices across engineering teams, not by how much you personally test.

Requirements

You have 7+ years of experience in software engineering with significant focus on testing and quality
You have proven experience building test infrastructure and frameworks for large-scale distributed systems
You have a strong background in testing systems that process massive data volumes (billions+ of events)
You have demonstrated ability to influence engineering culture and drive organizational change without formal authority
You have deep understanding of testing methodologies including unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, and chaos testing
You have experience coaching and mentoring engineers on testing and quality practices
You have strong understanding of software design principles and how they impact testability
You have excellent communication skills with ability to advocate for quality at all levels of the organization

Nice To Haves

You have experience with Java-based systems and testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito)
You have hands-on experience with GCP services and architecture
You have experience testing edge computing systems and mobile applications
You are familiar with CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or similar)
You have experience with performance testing tools and methodologies at scale
You have background in chaos engineering and resilience testing
You have experience with observability and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, or similar)
You have strong understanding of dependency injection, mocking, and test isolation patterns
You have experience in high-growth or scaling engineering organizations

Responsibilities

Drive and shape a culture of quality and testing across engineering teams through coaching and technical leadership
Design and build scalable test infrastructure for systems processing 100+ billion events per day
Coach teams to design for testability and observability from the beginning
Develop testing frameworks, tooling, and automated pipelines that engineers can easily adopt
Participate in design reviews with focus on testability and observability
Build comprehensive test reporting and analytics to provide visibility into quality metrics
Define quality KPIs and metrics that drive meaningful improvements across the organization