Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Frontends Development ; Remote

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Frontends Development

United States (Remote)

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As the Lead Quality Assurance Engineer on the Frontends Development team, you will be a key leader in our mission to empower product squads to design and build modern, scalable, and accessible front-end apps. Your work will have a deep impact on how we operate in a key area of our business—front-end quality. You'll be given general problems and be left to your own devices to define and implement solutions.

Your focus will be on the months and quarters ahead, and you'll have ownership over automation of the product and the technical solutions.

You will have an in-depth understanding of the current state of automation, using data to measurably improve reliability and coverage. You will coach and guide product squads to find defects earlier, all while evangelizing your favored solutions and defending your approach to other leaders. You will not only be a technical expert but also a coach who fosters an environment where your teammates can grow and succeed.

Your priorities will include:

• Communication and Team Alignment: You'll lead the charge in shifting testing left, using data to identify and solve defect trends in our front-end systems. This involves coaching squads on new automation approaches while confidently advocating for your quality vision among other leaders.
• Squad Quality
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  You will have full ownership over squad quality, using data to solve problems and reduce defect leakage into production. You'll proactively identify ways to prevent defects from ever reaching the codebase, focusing specifically on challenges within our monorepo structure. You will be given general quality problems and will have complete ownership to define "done" and implement a solution.
• Automation Leadership: You will have full ownership over the technical excellence and strategy of our automation, ensuring it keeps up with development speed. You'll proactively research and implement new technologies while coaching and leading your team on major automation initiatives.
• Cross-team collaboration: You’ll work across departments to drive alignment on front-end quality initiatives, ensuring scalable solutions meet long-term strategic objectives while also maintaining focus on immediate technical excellence.
• Proactive quality assurance: By anticipating quality risks and organizational needs, you’ll proactively identify and address potential obstacles to prevent defects before they arise.
• Strategic execution: You’ll own long-term quality and engineering objectives while ensuring day-to-day execution aligns with delivering high-quality, reliable and efficient solutions.
• Industry advancements. You’ll leverage technical expertise and industry insights to drive continuous improvement, ensuring our quality processes and frameworks evolve with technological advancements.

Our priority is to hire someone for this role who lives near our office in Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska, but we're also open to remote candidates who live in the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, , IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, NE, NH, NC, NV, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI, WY.

• Coach: You know how to influence and coach teams even though they don't report to you. You are skilled at guiding developers to adopt best practices, like integrating components into Storybook and writing resilient tests. You…