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Lucio

Posted 28 Aug 2026

QA Lead

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
28 Aug 2026

About the role

Responsibilities:

  • Design and implement the QA strategy from scratch, including frameworks, tools, processes, and standards.
  • Build and maintain automated test suites (functional, regression, performance, security).
  • Set up and own QA within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Perform and oversee API, UI, and end-to-end testing for AI-powered legal products.
  • Define and track quality metrics and reporting for leadership.
  • Work directly with founders, engineers, and product managers to embed quality into every sprint.
  • Hire and mentor junior QA engineers as the team scales.
  • Own bug tracking workflows using JIRA or equivalent.
  • Evaluate and decide on tooling and budget for the QA function.


Requirements:

  • 4-8 years of QA experience, with at least 1-2 years in a senior or lead capacity.
  • Proven experience building QA processes from scratch (startup experience strongly preferred).
  • Hands-on with automation tools: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, or Appium.
  • Strong in API testing, Postman, REST Assured, or equivalent.
  • Comfortable with CI/CD pipelines and Git.
  • Experience testing AI/ML-powered products is a big plus.
  • Exposure to performance and security testing.
  • An excellent communicator can translate QA insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • In an entrepreneurial mindset, you see gaps and fix them without being asked.

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