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Lead QA Automation Engineer

Moon Glendale, California, United States

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Posted Jul 27, 2026
  • Role & seniority

    • Lead/manager of Quality (QA Automation / Platform Quality)

    • Hiring as the leader of quality; mentors 1 junior QA engineer

  • Stack/tools

    • CI/CD pipeline automation (fully automated QA gates)

    • Automated testing frameworks (production-grade test code)

    • Monitoring/observability + alerting in coordination with DevOps

    • Production quality analytics (escaped defects, regressions, dashboards)

    • (No specific languages/tools named in text)

  • Top 3 responsibilities

    • Design and own automated QA protocols/gates in CI/CD (critical-flow suites, low-flake rate, trusted quality gates)

    • Protect production: prevent buggy releases, major issues, and platform downtime

    • Implement quality signals via monitors/production observability; analyze metrics (escaped defects/regressions) and support user-side QA triage

  • Must-have skills

    • 6+ years in quality/test engineering at orgs shipping continuously

    • Experience replacing manual QA sign-offs with automation; able to demonstrate impact

    • Production-grade test coding + pipeline-oriented thinking (invariants over test plans)

    • Ability to learn the customer application/workflows to expert level

    • Calm, rigorous, outcome-focused execution

  • Nice-to-haves

    • Deep experience integrating QA results with DevOps monitoring/alerting

    • Strong expertise in user-side QA triage and producing reliable repr

Full Description

Role Overview You will build quality into Moon's platform without ever becoming a gate. There is no manual QA sign-off here - teams ship continuously. Your job is the protocols and automation that make that safe: fully automated QA testing in the CI/CD pipeline that protects our customers' businesses from buggy releases and major issues, and protects the platform from downtime. You will be expected to understand the product deeply - an expert on the customer application, as fluent in its workflows as the people who build it. About the role

  • You will join as the leader of quality for a platform with demanding reliability goals, with a junior QA engineer on your team to mentor and grow.

  • What you'll do

  • Design and own the protocols for fully automated QA testing in the CI/CD pipeline: critical-flow suites, quality gates, and the low flake rate that keeps them trusted.

  • Protect our customers' businesses from buggy releases and major issues - and the platform from downtime - as your explicit mandate.

  • Put up monitors on the current application and work with DevOps on alerting, observability, and production quality signals.

  • Become an expert on the customer application: know every workflow deeply enough to know what must never break.

  • Build production quality analytics: escaped defects, regressions, and the metrics on every team dashboard.

  • Run user-side QA: triage what real users report into engineering teams with clean reproductions.

  • Mentor and grow the team's junior QA engineer.

  • Qualifications

  • 6+ years in quality/test engineering at companies that ship continuously.

  • Has replaced manual QA gates with automation - and can show the before/after.

  • Writes production-grade test code; thinks in pipelines and invariants, not test plans.

  • Deep product curiosity - learns applications to expert level fast.

  • Calm, rigorous, and outcome-focused.

QA AutomationCI/CD PipelineTest EngineeringObservabilityProduction Quality AnalyticsMentoringTriageQuality GatesTest Code Developmentmulti-location

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