Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Functional Test Ownership
• Assume full accountability for functional test coverage of assigned applications, including the user interface, service layers, and integration points.
• Be hands-on across the full stack for assigned applications, including manual and exploratory testing, automation, and end-to-end integration testing.
• Define and maintain the application's test strategy, determining what is tested, at which layer, and at what cadence.
• Act as the quality authority for the application, providing evidence-based release readiness assessments to engineering and product leadership.
• AI-Enabled Quality Workflow
• Evaluate user stories, acceptance criteria, and design documentation to surface ambiguities, missing edge cases, and untestable requirements prior to development.
• Generate candidate test cases and scenarios from requirements, then apply engineering judgment to refine, consolidate, and prioritize them.
• Compare the implemented codebase against the existing test suite to identify uncovered paths, ineffective assertions, and divergence between specified and actual behavior.
• Assess each test for automation suitability based on stability, execution frequency, maintenance cost, and exploratory value, and make defensible recommendations on automated versus manual execution.
• Build and maintain Playwright automation, using AI tooling to accelerate authoring, refactoring, debugging, and long-term maintenance.
• Operate automated suites within CI/CD pipelines and conduct manual and exploratory testing where automation is not the appropriate instrument.
• Triage, reproduce, document, and drive defects to resolution, using AI-assisted analysis to shorten root-cause isolation.
• Produce clear, decision-ready reporting on coverage, execution results, defect trends, and release risk.
• Test Framework Development
• Contribute substantively to the organization's existing QA automation framework, extending its capability, improving stability, and strengthening maintainability.
• Design and implement a test automation framework from first principles when required, including architecture, page and component abstractions, fixtures, test data management, environment configuration, CI integration, and reporting.
• Establish and enforce automation standards and design patterns that keep test suites fast, reliable, and readable.
• Technical Leadership and Mentoring
• Mentor quality engineers on test design, automation architecture, and the effective and responsible use of AI tooling.
• Lead by example through code review, pairing, and hands-on guidance; identify skill gaps within the team and create opportunities for colleagues to close them.
• Serve as a resource for the broader engineering organization on quality practices and AI-assisted testing methods.
• Partner with software engineers, product managers, and DevOps to shift quality activities earlier in the delivery cycle.

Knowledge And Experience

• 7+ years of professional experience in software quality engineering, including substantial hands-on test automation work.
• Demonstrated depth with Playwright, extending beyond test authoring to suite architecture, flakiness mitigation, test data strategy, and execution at scale within CI.
• Practical, applied experience using AI-assisted engineering tooling as part of a routine development or testing workflow — for example, AI coding agents, AI-assisted test authoring, or AI-supported code and requirements analysis.
• Strong foundation in functional testing, including test design techniques, risk-based prioritization, boundary and negative testing, and structured exploratory testing.
• Proven experience building a test automation framework from the ground up, with the ability to articulate the architectural decisions involved.
• Proficiency in TypeScript or JavaScript, or comparable programming experience with the ability to become productive quickly.
• Experience owning both automated and manual testing for an application, with sound judgment regarding the appropriate application of each.
• Working knowledge of defect and test management tooling such as Jira, Xray, or equivalent.
• Experience integrating automated test execution into CI/CD pipelines.
• Prior experience mentoring or leading other engineers.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; test plans, defect reports, and quality summaries must stand on their own without narration.

Preferred Knowledge And Experience

• Hands-on experience with Claude Code or a comparable AI coding agent.
• Experience creating AI agent skills and custom agents, and using Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, including building MCP servers when existing tooling is not sufficient
• API test automation experience across REST or GraphQL, including contract testing.
• Experience introducing AI tooling to a quality organization and establishing team-wide standards for its use.
• Background in a regulated or high-reliability domain.

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.