QA Lead, Software Development, Software Testing

Baselane is a rapidly growing banking and financial management platform for individual landlords and real estate investors. We are backed by leading Fin Tech investors, including Activant Capital, Collaborative Fund, Conversion Capital, Diagram Ventures, Thom Vest, and many Fin Tech leaders from Pay Pal, eBay, Google, and more. We are building the future of financial services for the 12+ million individual landlords and real estate investors who own over 25 million homes in the United States.

Our mission is to empower landlords with financial services, automated tools, and actionable insights to help them save time, increase their returns, and grow their investment portfolios. We are a seasoned team with deep experience in financial services and technology. We have previously worked at companies including The Boston Consulting Group, Morgan Stanley, Plaid, Harry’s, Better, Wealth Simple, RBC Ventures, Affir

We operate in an AI-first engineering environment, where AI-powered development is at the core of how we design, build, and deliver software. As our engineers ship faster with AI coding agents, quality has to keep pace, and that means automation. We’re looking for a hands-on QA Lead who is equally comfortable writing Playwright tests and leading a team of both manual and automation testers.

This is a player-coach role: you’ll spend a significant part of your time building automation yourself, while guiding our manual QA team as they grow into automation, and help the engineering team write better test cases. Expect roughly half your time hands-on in the codebase, building new automated tests, healing flaky or broken ones, and helping our engineers write better tests for the features they ship.

You’ll set the quality strategy, lead by example, and work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and Dev Ops to help our engineers own quality end-to-end. The other half focused on building the QA team and practice. Our stack:
React, Type Script, Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Our test stack is built around Playwright.

• 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 Dev Ops 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.

• 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 Type Script/JavaScript. You still enjoy…