
Lead QA Automation Engineer
Moon • Glendale, California, United States
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Role & seniority
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Lead/manager of Quality (QA Automation / Platform Quality)
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Hiring as the leader of quality; mentors 1 junior QA engineer
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Stack/tools
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CI/CD pipeline automation (fully automated QA gates)
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Automated testing frameworks (production-grade test code)
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Monitoring/observability + alerting in coordination with DevOps
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Production quality analytics (escaped defects, regressions, dashboards)
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(No specific languages/tools named in text)
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Top 3 responsibilities
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Design and own automated QA protocols/gates in CI/CD (critical-flow suites, low-flake rate, trusted quality gates)
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Protect production: prevent buggy releases, major issues, and platform downtime
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Implement quality signals via monitors/production observability; analyze metrics (escaped defects/regressions) and support user-side QA triage
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Must-have skills
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6+ years in quality/test engineering at orgs shipping continuously
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Experience replacing manual QA sign-offs with automation; able to demonstrate impact
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Production-grade test coding + pipeline-oriented thinking (invariants over test plans)
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Ability to learn the customer application/workflows to expert level
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Calm, rigorous, outcome-focused execution
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Nice-to-haves
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Deep experience integrating QA results with DevOps monitoring/alerting
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Strong expertise in user-side QA triage and producing reliable repr
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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
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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.
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What you'll do
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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.
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Protect our customers' businesses from buggy releases and major issues - and the platform from downtime - as your explicit mandate.
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Put up monitors on the current application and work with DevOps on alerting, observability, and production quality signals.
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Become an expert on the customer application: know every workflow deeply enough to know what must never break.
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Build production quality analytics: escaped defects, regressions, and the metrics on every team dashboard.
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Run user-side QA: triage what real users report into engineering teams with clean reproductions.
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Mentor and grow the team's junior QA engineer.
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Qualifications
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6+ years in quality/test engineering at companies that ship continuously.
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Has replaced manual QA gates with automation - and can show the before/after.
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Writes production-grade test code; thinks in pipelines and invariants, not test plans.
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Deep product curiosity - learns applications to expert level fast.
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Calm, rigorous, and outcome-focused.