[Remote] Lead QA Automation Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HealthCentral is a health experience company at the intersection of media, community, and culture. They are seeking a Lead QA Automation Engineer to own and improve the quality assurance process across their web and mobile products, ensuring high standards of quality and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Own, maintain, and improve automated testing pipelines for our media websites and mobile applications
• Build, update, and maintain automated tests using Playwright or similar browser automation frameworks
• Improve test reliability, reduce flaky tests, and optimize automated test execution time
• Maintain and improve CI test workflows using GitHub Actions
• Expand automated coverage for critical user flows, regression areas, and high-risk product functionality
• Establish standards for how automated tests are written, reviewed, organized, and maintained
• Work with Engineering to ensure applications are testable and automation-friendly
• Investigate failed test runs, identify root causes, and coordinate fixes with Engineering when needed
• Define and improve QA processes across web and mobile products
• Collaborate with Engineering leads on release quality standards, defect triage, regression planning, and QA workflow
• Determine the appropriate balance between automated testing, manual testing, exploratory testing, and smoke testing
• Create practical QA guidelines for feature validation, regression testing, release readiness, and production verification
• Improve visibility into product quality through test reporting, defect trends, and release risk communication
• Help establish useful quality gates that improve confidence without unnecessarily slowing down delivery
• Manage, support, and mentor the existing manual QA tester
• Plan and coordinate manual QA work across active development, regression cycles, and releases
• Ensure manual test cases are well organized, current, and mapped to meaningful product coverage
• Use Testiny to manage test cases, test runs, QA documentation, and regression coverage
• Help onboard and mentor additional QA team members as the team grows
• Create a QA operating model that works for a small team now and can scale over time
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, risks, and acceptance criteria
• Participate in sprint planning, feature reviews, bug triage, and release planning
• Communicate quality risks clearly and proactively
• Help identify gaps in requirements, edge cases, and user experience issues before release
• Advocate for quality while balancing speed, pragmatism, and business priorities
• Support QA efforts for the Drops app and related mobile experiences
• Use Sauce Labs or similar tools for cross-browser, cross-device, and mobile testing
• Help define supported device, browser, and operating system coverage
• Ensure critical experiences are validated across the environments most important to our users

Skills

• 5+ years of professional QA experience, including hands-on experience testing web applications
• 3+ years of experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production applications
• 2+ years of experience with modern browser automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. Playwright experience is strongly preferred
• 1+ year of experience leading QA work, mentoring QA testers, managing QA execution, or owning QA process across a product or engineering team
• Experience writing or maintaining automated tests in JavaScript or TypeScript
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions
• Experience with test case management tools such as Testiny, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar
• Experience with cross-browser and cross-device testing tools such as Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, or similar
• Strong understanding of regression testing, smoke testing, exploratory testing, release validation, and defect lifecycle management
• Ability to troubleshoot failed automated tests and distinguish between test issues, environment issues, and application defects
• Experience collaborating directly with Engineering, Product, and Design teams
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain QA risks, test coverage gaps, and release concerns
• Ability to operate independently and bring structure to a QA function that is still growing
• Experience testing mobile applications
• Experience testing consumer-facing media, publishing, content, advertising, subscription, or e-commerce products
• Experience with API testing
• Experience with accessibility testing, visual regression testing, or performance testing
• Experience improving or rebuilding an existing automated test suite
• Experience helping grow a QA team from an early-stage or small-team environment
• Familiarity with analytics, tracking, attribution, or ad-related QA workflows
• Experience creating QA dashboards, test reports, or release quality metrics

Benefits

• HealthCentral provides a welcoming, positive work environment.
• HealthCentral has been recognized as a Great Place To Work® certified company!
• HealthCentral offers a flexible remote working culture allowing employees to work from agreed upon work locations.
• We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive medical/dental/vision benefits, 401K, 21 days PTO, 6 Wellness Days, 2 Volunteer Days, 2 Floating Holidays, and an extensive holiday schedule along with Summer Fridays.

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