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We help clients migrate from legacy circulation systems to a modern reliable platform that handles everything from recurring billing and payment processing to USPS postal fulfillment and access control.\nWere a small high-impact team that values initiative ownership and getting things right.\nThe Role\nWe need a senior hands-on QA leader who will own quality across the entire platform. That means setting the standards establishing key metrics and holding yourself and the team accountable to all of it. Youll lead a team of 2 QA engineers and partner closely with engineering product and client-facing teams.\nIf youve built a QA function before or restructured one that was struggling this is your kind of challenge.\nWhat Youll Own\nThe entire QA function: vision process playbooks metrics and execution.\nTest strategy across the full SDLC from requirements through deployment not as a gatekeeper at the end.\nQA team leadership: mentoring and assessing performance of your team.\nIdentifying gaps in error reporting logging and observability and building a roadmap to steadily improve coverage and signal quality.\nKey QA metrics (defect escape rate test coverage regression pass rates cycle time) defining them tracking them and using them to drive continuous improvement.\nTest plans test cases and regression suites in TestRail.\nAutomated testing strategy and implementation.\nMust-Haves\nDemonstrable experience leading a team of QA engineers.\nExperience with AI tools (Claude Code preferred).\nGreat attention to detail.\nUI/UX sensibility ability to spot inconsistencies broken flows and poor user experience beyond just does it work.\nExperience with automated testing frameworks (e.g. Cypress Playwright or Selenium).\nSolid understanding of REST APIs and ability to test backend services independently (Postman cURL etc.).\nExperience testing payment/billing flows (Stripe strongly preferred).\nComfortable working with MySQL to validate data integrity and investigate issues.\nExperience writing and maintaining test plans test cases and regression suites in TestRail.\nStrong written communication bug reports that engineers can act on without back-and-forth.\nAbility to identify gaps in error reporting logging and observability and build a roadmap to steadily improve coverage and signal quality across the platform.\nAbility to define implement and own key QA metrics (defect escape rate test coverage regression pass rates cycle time etc.) and use them to drive continuous improvement.\nExperience embedding QA into the full SDLC not a gatekeeper at the end but a partner from requirements through deployment.\nVery Nice to Have\nClient-facing experience able to join calls reproduce reported issues and communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders.\nExperience with OpenSearch Bugsnag and Sentry for log analysis and error triage.\nExperience with subscription/SaaS platforms or recurring billing logic.\nFamiliarity with PHP and/or codebases (enough to read code and pinpoint where things break).\nExperience with CI/CD pipelines and integrating automated tests into deployment workflows (GitHub Actions etc.).\nFamiliarity with Asana for defect tracking and sprint workflows integrated with TestRail for test management.\nPerformance testing experience (load testing APIs identifying bottlenecks).\nExperience running QA retrospectives and blameless post-mortems to turn production incidents into process improvements.\nFamiliarity with SOC 2 or other compliance frameworks and how QA documentation supports audit readiness.\nBenefits\nCompetitive salary based on experience\nFully remote work environment\nStrong opportunities for growth ownership and career progression\nOpportunity to work on a high-growth SaaS product with real impact\nCollaborative team with strong ownership culture\nIn person team activities and offsites\n\nNext Steps\nAs a next step please create a brief video (via Loom or an equivalent platform) introducing yourself and discussing your experience. 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