QA Automation Lead role owning and evolving end-to-end QA strategy, with hands-on automation delivery and cross-functional leadership across Product, Engineering, and Customer Success. AquaPhoenix Scientific is a water testing kits and reagent manufacturing leader, and this role focuses on improving web and mobile quality, release readiness, and customer-critical workflows. Standout perks include bonus opportunities and strong benefits (health/dental/vision, 401k, generous PTO).
- Bonus opportunities
- Exceptional benefits and 401(k)
- Generous paid time off
We are seeking a QA Automation Lead to own and evolve our quality assurance strategy across the product lifecycle, ensuring it aligns with business priorities and customer outcomes. This role will report to a VP-level leader and work closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to deliver a high-quality, customer-centric experience. The position will also support quality efforts across both web and mobile experiences, helping ensure consistent test coverage across platforms and customer-facing workflows.
The ideal candidate is both hands-on and strategic, with experience building scalable, sustainable test automation practices and mentoring manual testing resources into higher-value quality work. This person will help shape a testing approach that prioritizes the workflows and product areas that matter most to users and the business.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design, development, and execution of a scalable QA automation strategy.
- Build and maintain automated test coverage using Playwright.
- Establish testing standards, frameworks, and best practices that support long-term maintainability.
- Mentor and develop manual QA resources, including helping transition appropriate work into automation.
- Partner with Product and Engineering early in the development cycle to define testability, risk areas, and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with Customer Success to understand customer pain points, production issues, and high-impact workflows.
- Review requirements, user stories, and release plans to identify quality risks and test coverage needs.
- Own regression strategy, release readiness, and test execution for key product areas.
- Improve test reliability, reduce flaky tests, and ensure automation runs are stable in CI/CD environments.
- Analyze defects, trends, and customer-reported issues to drive prevention and continuous improvement.
- Communicate quality status, risk, and priorities clearly to leadership and cross-functional partners.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of QA experience, including automation testing in a product/software environment.
- Hands-on experience with Playwright and/or Selenium.
- Strong understanding of test strategy, test case design, regression testing, and quality assurance best practices.
- Experience designing, building and improving scalable test frameworks, using patterns like reusable utilities.
- Experience testing mobile applications, including validating key user flows, regressions, and release readiness across iOS and Android environments.
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
- Proven ability to mentor QA team members, including manual testers.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with attention to detail and ability to work in a smaller team environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience leading QA efforts in a SaaS or customer-facing software environment.
- Familiarity with API testing, database validation, and test data management.
- Understanding of release management and production support processes.
- Exposure to performance, accessibility, or cross-browser and mobile testing.
- Experience working with remote or distributed teams.
What Success Looks Like
- A clear, documented, and sustainable QA strategy is in place.
- Automation coverage is improving in the areas that matter most to customers.
- Manual testing is being used more strategically, not as a bottleneck.
- Product quality, release confidence, and defect prevention improve over time.
- Cross-functional partners view QA as a proactive, trusted business partner.
- Influence quality culture across Product, Engineering, and Customer Success.
- Own release confidence and quality readiness for major product initiatives.
AquaPhoenix is driven by a company culture that inspires a flexible, fun, 'can-do' approach to business. You'll be joining a fast-paced, driven environment that's helping to build a cleaner and safer global water supply. AquaPhoenix is an industry leader in water testing kits and reagent manufacturing, as well as a distributor of thousands of testing products and supplies for a multitude of industries including industrial water treatment, cleaning & sanitation, oil & gas, environmental, and water conditioning.
If you are looking for a great work environment, competitive pay, bonus opportunities, career growth, and exceptional benefits that includes health, dental, vision, 401(k), STD/LTD, and generous paid time off consider a career with AquaPhoenix Scientific. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer that embraces diverse skills, perspectives and ideas that help our business grow. Minorities, females, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are urged to apply. For more information or to apply, please visit www.aquaphoenixsci.com.