Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HealthCentral is a health experience company at the intersection of media, community, and culture. They are seeking a Lead QA Automation Engineer to own and improve the quality assurance process across their web and mobile products, ensuring high standards of quality and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Own, maintain, and improve automated testing pipelines for our media websites and mobile applications
- Build, update, and maintain automated tests using Playwright or similar browser automation frameworks
- Improve test reliability, reduce flaky tests, and optimize automated test execution time
- Maintain and improve CI test workflows using GitHub Actions
- Expand automated coverage for critical user flows, regression areas, and high-risk product functionality
- Establish standards for how automated tests are written, reviewed, organized, and maintained
- Work with Engineering to ensure applications are testable and automation-friendly
- Investigate failed test runs, identify root causes, and coordinate fixes with Engineering when needed
- Define and improve QA processes across web and mobile products
- Collaborate with Engineering leads on release quality standards, defect triage, regression planning, and QA workflow
- Determine the appropriate balance between automated testing, manual testing, exploratory testing, and smoke testing
- Create practical QA guidelines for feature validation, regression testing, release readiness, and production verification
- Improve visibility into product quality through test reporting, defect trends, and release risk communication
- Help establish useful quality gates that improve confidence without unnecessarily slowing down delivery
- Manage, support, and mentor the existing manual QA tester
- Plan and coordinate manual QA work across active development, regression cycles, and releases
- Ensure manual test cases are well organized, current, and mapped to meaningful product coverage
- Use Testiny to manage test cases, test runs, QA documentation, and regression coverage
- Help onboard and mentor additional QA team members as the team grows
- Create a QA operating model that works for a small team now and can scale over time
- Work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, risks, and acceptance criteria
- Participate in sprint planning, feature reviews, bug triage, and release planning
- Communicate quality risks clearly and proactively
- Help identify gaps in requirements, edge cases, and user experience issues before release
- Advocate for quality while balancing speed, pragmatism, and business priorities
- Support QA efforts for the Drops app and related mobile experiences
- Use Sauce Labs or similar tools for cross-browser, cross-device, and mobile testing
- Help define supported device, browser, and operating system coverage
- Ensure critical experiences are validated across the environments most important to our users
Skills
- 5+ years of professional QA experience, including hands-on experience testing web applications
- 3+ years of experience building and maintaining automated test suites for production applications
- 2+ years of experience with modern browser automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium. Playwright experience is strongly preferred
- 1+ year of experience leading QA work, mentoring QA testers, managing QA execution, or owning QA process across a product or engineering team
- Experience writing or maintaining automated tests in JavaScript or TypeScript
- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions
- Experience with test case management tools such as Testiny, TestRail, Zephyr, or similar
- Experience with cross-browser and cross-device testing tools such as Sauce Labs, BrowserStack, or similar
- Strong understanding of regression testing, smoke testing, exploratory testing, release validation, and defect lifecycle management
- Ability to troubleshoot failed automated tests and distinguish between test issues, environment issues, and application defects
- Experience collaborating directly with Engineering, Product, and Design teams
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain QA risks, test coverage gaps, and release concerns
- Ability to operate independently and bring structure to a QA function that is still growing
- Experience testing mobile applications
- Experience testing consumer-facing media, publishing, content, advertising, subscription, or e-commerce products
- Experience with API testing
- Experience with accessibility testing, visual regression testing, or performance testing
- Experience improving or rebuilding an existing automated test suite
- Experience helping grow a QA team from an early-stage or small-team environment
- Familiarity with analytics, tracking, attribution, or ad-related QA workflows
- Experience creating QA dashboards, test reports, or release quality metrics
Benefits
- HealthCentral provides a welcoming, positive work environment.
- HealthCentral has been recognized as a Great Place To Work® certified company!
- HealthCentral offers a flexible remote working culture allowing employees to work from agreed upon work locations.
- We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive medical/dental/vision benefits, 401K, 21 days PTO, 6 Wellness Days, 2 Volunteer Days, 2 Floating Holidays, and an extensive holiday schedule along with Summer Fridays.
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