# Lead QA Engineer

Adventure is Our Culture. Join a team that celebrates a lifestyle as bold as the terrain we love. At Backcountry, we are rooted in adventure, recognition, and wellbeing - on and off the mountain. We spotlight employee stories, celebrate milestones, and offer exclusive outdoor perks. Whether you are at HQ, in a retail store, or remote, you will be part of a team that thrives on energy, exploration, and connection. Reports to: Director of Engineering Location: Costa Rica (remote) About the Role As ourLead QA Engineer, you will own QA strategy and execution across Backcountry’s digital properties across web, API, and mobile with an AI-first approach. This is a high-ownership role built for someone who wants to lead with craft: raising automation coverage, strengthening release confidence, and influencing how quality is woven into every stage of the development lifecycle. In your first six months, you’ll establish Playwright as the primary automation framework and define repeatable release validation standards that support our weekly deployment cadence. By month twelve, the expectation is measurable improvement in regression stability, defect trends, and test coverage with targeted ini

- **Id**: 4285582
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/csc-generation-lead-qa-engineer>
- **Role**: QA
- **Role family**: QA
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: remote
- **Remote scope**: stated_countries
- **Remote scope basis**: posting_text
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Costa Rica
- **Countries**: CR
- **Hiring countries**: CR
- **Hiring countries total**: 1
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2025-11-26T21:27:07Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2025-11-26
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T21:40:59Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 352
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6388
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: E-commerce Platforms, Retail & Shop Systems

## Company

- **Id**: 8524
- **Name**: CSC Generation
- **Domain**: cscgeneration.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/csc-generation>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 81
- **Open postings**: 111
- **Ghost share**: 0.009
- **Stale share**: 0.532
- **Repost share**: 0.009
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 69
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 115000
- **Max**: 145000
- **Currency**: CAD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 101662

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **Appium** — Optional: no
- **BrowserStack** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Cypress** — Optional: no
- **Gatling** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Jira** — Optional: no
- **JMeter** — Optional: no
- **PassKit** — Optional: no
- **Playwright** — Optional: no
- **Postman** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Selenium** — Optional: no
- **Shift-Left Security** — Optional: no
- **TestRail** — Optional: no
- **ArgoCD** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 352

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **Costa Rica** — Iso: CR; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-13T21:40:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 12
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.42
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 352
- **Expected fill days**: 69
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-13T22:19:19Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 101662
- **Is top pay**: no

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