Lead QA Automation Engineer

Moon

$155K — $195K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years in quality/test engineering at companies that ship continuously.
  • Experience replacing manual QA gates with automation, demonstrating before/after success.
  • Proficient in writing production-grade test code, focusing on pipelines and invariants.
  • Quick learner with a deep product curiosity, mastering applications to expert level.
  • Calm, rigorous, and outcome-focused individual.

Responsibilities

  • Design and own protocols for fully automated QA testing in the CI/CD pipeline.
  • Protect customers' businesses from buggy releases and downtime.
  • Implement monitors on the current application and collaborate with DevOps on alerting and observability.
  • Master the customer application workflows to identify critical failure points.
  • Build production quality analytics, tracking escaped defects and metrics for team dashboards.
  • Perform user-side QA by triaging reports from real users to engineering teams.
  • Mentor and grow a junior QA engineer within the team.

Benefits

  • Flexible work arrangements to enhance work-life balance.
  • Professional development opportunities including mentoring and training.
  • Collaborative work environment promoting knowledge sharing and growth.
  • Access to the latest technology and tools relevant to the role.
Full Job 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.

The pay range for this role is:

155,000 - 195,000 USD per year (Moon HQ)

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