QA Lead

About the role

Sine Engineering is the leading global company developing advanced radio communication and navigation systems. We are building mission-critical infrastructure for the multi-million drone era.

We are looking for an experienced QA Lead Engineer to drive quality engineering initiatives across our products and services. This role combines hands-on test automation development with QA leadership responsibilities, including defining quality strategies, mentoring team members, and collaborating with globally distributed engineering teams.

The ideal candidate is a strong technical contributor who can build scalable automation frameworks while also acting as a quality leader, ensuring consistent testing practices and high-quality releases across multiple teams and locations.

The QA Lead Engineer will work closely with Software Engineers, Product Managers, and DevOps teams to ensure comprehensive test coverage and reliable CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities:

• Define and implement testing strategies that increase test coverage and reduce manual testing effort.

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for embedded products.

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable execution across environments.

• Establish quality metrics, dashboards, and reporting to track product health and testing effectiveness.

• Continuously improve automation coverage, test reliability, and execution performance.

• Mentor team members on quality engineering best practices and automation techniques.

• Collaborate with engineering, product management, and DevOps teams across multiple geographic locations.

• Communicate quality risks, testing progress, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance and test automation.

• Proven experience serving as a QA Lead, Test Lead, or senior quality engineering contributor.

• Strong programming skills in Python, C# and similar.

• Hands-on experience with modern test automation frameworks such as Robot framework, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, or similar technologies.

• Experience testing REST APIs and service-oriented architectures.

• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, test design techniques, and quality engineering principles.

• Experience of manual testing and understanding of it’s benefits.

• Experience of production automation testing.

• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or Jenkins.

• Experience working in Agile development environments.

• Ability to define quality strategies and drive quality improvements at the team and organizational levels.

• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, communication, and coordination skills.