Lead Quality Assurance Analyst

About Our Client

The organization operates as an elite, globally dominant force within the marketing and advertising technology (MarTech / AdTech) industries, engineering a hyper-scale data abstraction and orchestration platform that solves the complex challenge of consumer data fragmentation. By consolidating multi-channel behavioral signals into a single, unified, and real-time view of the consumer, the enterprise empowers the world's leading brands to execute highly personalized, synchronized marketing campaigns. Processing an astonishing 400 billion consumer actions daily, the company leverages cutting-edge artificial intelligence, massive distributed systems, and proprietary technology to maximize advertising effectiveness. Backed by a global workforce of over 9,000 specialists, the organization is widely recognized as a premier industry leader and a benchmark for technological innovation.

About the Opportunity

The Lead Quality Assurance Analyst will step into a high-visibility, technically demanding leadership role engineered to serve as the primary guardian of software reliability, systemic performance, and deployment velocity across hyper-scale advertising platforms. This position takes comprehensive operational ownership of the end-to-end quality ecosystem, driving the strategic architecture of both manual validation protocols and continuous automated testing frameworks. Acting as a vital engineering catalyst within an advanced Agile environment, the Lead Analyst will spearhead framework expansion, direct multi-layer diagnostic investigations, and mentor a high-performing QA team—directly ensuring the zero-downtime stability of platforms processing billions of real-time transactions.

Responsibilities

• Architect, scale, and execute comprehensive manual and automated software testing pipelines to validate high-throughput application functionality and isolate edge-case regressions
• Design, code, and implement custom diagnostic tooling and test utilities to accelerate verification cycles and optimize early defect detection
• Maintain, optimize, and troubleshoot continuous integration (CI) test automation frameworks to guarantee high test reliability and minimize flaky test patterns
• Engineer automated, real-time system health monitoring solutions and conduct rigorous functional testing across distributed web applications
• Enhance existing test automation architectures continuously to increase code maintainability, minimize execution times, and expand boundary test coverage
• Lead, mentor, and technically elevate a dedicated team of QA engineers, establishing industry best practices for automation engineering and test design
• Perform deep-dive root-cause analysis on complex automation failures, microservice breakdowns, and high-priority environment issues
• Partner dynamically with development leads, system architects, and product managers during active Agile sprints to engineer robust test strategies from inception
• Research, benchmark, and integrate emerging software quality assurance utilities, artificial intelligence testing tools, and optimization techniques
• Participate actively in daily scrum cadences, sprint planning sessions, and retrospectives, delivering data-driven status visibility and workflow improvements

Qualifications

• Possession of a Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a closely related quantitative discipline, coupled with a minimum of three (3) years of progressive, professional software quality engineering experience
• Minimum of three (3) years of direct, hands-on experience developing, debugging, and scaling automated test suites using Selenium WebDriver and Java
• Proven architectural experience designing and maintaining structured test automation frameworks utilizing TestNG and Maven dependency management
• Strong technical proficiency in Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) methodologies, featuring direct experience authoring feature files and step definitions via Cucumber
• Extensive API testing experience, showcasing structural mastery of programmatic validation using REST-Assured, HttpClient, and Postman
• Demonstrated proficiency in performance, load, and stress testing architectures using enterprise tools such as JMeter and SoapUI
• Robust version control expertise using Git, demonstrating comfort with advanced branching models, continuous integration merges, and complex conflict resolution
• Verified capability to build and govern cross-layer test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing parameters
• Strong command of automated test reporting systems, dynamic data setup orchestration, and active leadership within cross-functional defect triage meetings

Pay and Compensation

Target baseline compensation framework: The comprehensive salary structure for this senior technical leadership role will be determined dynamically based upon a holistic evaluation of the finalist's specialized Java automation framework tenure, scale of historical backend API data testing, and geographic location. Total rewards portfolio combines a highly competitive baseline salary with performance-based incentive opportunities and a robust corporate benefits infrastructure engineered to support long-term professional upskilling, personal wellness, and wealth accumulation.

Benefits & Perks

• Premium medical, dental, and vision insurance options designed to provide comprehensive health and wellness protection for you and your dependents
• Secure future financial planning via an enterprise-sponsored retirement savings framework complete with competitive company matching contributions
• Highly progressive Paid Time Off (PTO) allocations alongside recognized company-paid holidays to support excellent work-life balance
• Dedicated corporate investment in your professional growth, featuring budget sponsorships for advanced software testing certifications, Java development courses, and tech leadership training
• Modern remote and hybrid workplace flexibility supported by state-of-the-art digital collaboration tools and technology setup allowances
• Immediate access to holistic well-being initiatives, including confidential mental health counseling and life-coaching resources via the corporate Employee Assistance Program (EAP)