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You’ll join a values-driven community where integrity guides decisions, relentless service sets the bar, and wethrive on big challenges together. We invest in your growth with enterprise-wide learning and mobility. We celebrate who you are, and we respect life beyond work with flexibility that’s recognized externally. Enabled by modern platforms and AI, you’ll do the most meaningful work of your career and see your impact at scale.\nJob Description:\nJob Title: Lead QA Engineer\nEmployment Type: Full-time\nLocation and Work Arrangement: [hybrid pattern]\nExperience: 8 to 12 years\nJob Summary\nThe Senior QA Engineer is responsible for defining and driving the quality strategy across one or more product teams or programmes. 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The Lead QA Engineer also guides QA Engineers, promotes shift-left quality practices, and helps improve engineering delivery confidence.\nEssential Job Responsibilities\nOwn and maintain the QA strategy, standards, and quality approach for assigned products or programmes.\nDefine risk-based test plans, release entry and exit criteria, and quality evidence required for release readiness.\nLead UI, API, integration, regression, exploratory, database, performance, security, and accessibility testing practices as appropriate.\nDesign, review, and govern test automation frameworks using modern tools and maintainable engineering patterns.\nEstablish CI/CD quality gates, automation reliability expectations, test reporting, and defect triage processes.\nPartner with Engineering teams to improve testability, observability, quality controls, and early defect prevention.\nReview open defects, unresolved risks, test coverage, and residual quality concerns before release decisions.\nMentor QA Engineers, support onboarding, improve capability, and help develop consistent QA practices across teams.\nUse quality metrics and trends to identify systemic issues and recommend practical improvements.\nCommunicate quality status, risks, decisions, and recommendations clearly to technical and business stakeholders.\nQualifications & Requirements\nTypically 8+ years of experience in software testing, quality engineering, or a comparable technical QA role.\nStrong hands-on experience with test automation for web applications, APIs, and integration points.\nExperience with modern automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Newman, xUnit, or similar frameworks.\nGood understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated quality gates, test reporting, and release validation.\nStrong SQL and database validation skills, preferably with PostgreSQL, MySQL, or comparable relational databases.\nExperience defining test strategies, test plans, defect processes, and release-readiness recommendations.\nAbility to review requirements, identify risks, improve acceptance criteria, and influence quality earlier in the delivery lifecycle.\nStrong communication skills with the ability to explain quality risks and recommendations to engineering and business stakeholders.\nExperience mentoring QA Engineers and supporting team capability development.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience\nYour specific salary will be determined based on several factors:\nLocation-based market rate for the role\n\nYour abilities in relation to the job specification\n\nPerformance during screening and interview\n\nPay parity with the wider team in the considered location\n\nFurther details about the package will be provided during the initial screening call with the Talent Acquisition Team.\nClick here to learn about Epiq's Benefits.\nEpiq Leadership Compass\nFosters Relationships & Collaboration\nBuilds trust and alignment through open communication, shared goals, and strong partnerships to drive collective success.\nBuild trust-based partnerships\n\nNurture long-term relationships\n\nRemove collaboration barriers\n\nCelebrate cross-team success\n\nEngages & Influences\nInspires action and alignment through clear communication, purposeful influence, and a compelling vision.\nUse storytelling to build buy-in\n\nAlign communication with organizational goals\n\nGuild alignment through strong engagement\n\nMaximizes Performance\nSets and reinforces performance standards that drive results, ensure accountability, and align with Epiq’s goals.\nUse data to identify improvement opportunities\n\nMake informed decisions\n\nAlign team goals with boarder strategy\n\nEmpower teams to manage their own goals\n\nTranslate vision into clear priorities\n\nPrepare for disruptions with strong change management\n\nAchieves Operational Success\nDrives continuous improvement and operational excellence through smart processes, data insights, and quality execution.\nImprove workflows for team efficiency\n\nUse clear documentation and expectations\n\nResolve issues quickly using data and feedback\n\nIt is Epiq’s policy to comply with all applicable equal employment opportunity laws by making all employment decisions without unlawful regard or consideration of any individual’s race, religion, ethnicity, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expressions, transgender status, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, marital status, age, national origin, genetic information, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, veteran or family status or any other basis protected by applicable national, federal, state, provincial or local law. Epiq’s policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on any of these impermissible bases, as well as any bases or grounds protected by applicable law in each jurisdiction. In addition Epiq will take affirmative action for minorities, women, covered veterans and individuals with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. Epiq is pleased to provide such assistance and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request. 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