Lead, mentor, and coach the QA team, conducting one-on-ones and career development planning.
Manage the allocation of QA engineers across squads, implementing a rotation strategy.
Design and implement a robust automation roadmap, prioritizing regression tests to maximize platform stability.
Build and maintain automated flows that simulate real user behavior in web and desktop environments (using Python or Java).
Continuously increase automated test coverage to proactively identify edge cases and prevent production incidents.
Optimize the "development to delivery" window by refining validation processes without compromising quality standards.
Act as the focal point for incident management, triaging bugs with developers and ensuring rapid resolution and root cause analysis.
Collaborate closely with the engineering team to ensure QA processes are mature, robust, and aligned with agile delivery cycles.
Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) via Jira, such as response times, validation cycles, and defect leakage.
Evangelize QA best practices within the engineering team to ensure quality is a shared responsibility.
Provide regular reports to senior management on area health, automation progress, and product stability.

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field
Hands-on experience in software test automation (5+ years)
Proven experience leading and scaling QA teams
Experience with at least one programming/scripting language (Python or Java)
Experience testing web and desktop applications
Communicates clearly and with collaborative humility
Acts boldly and insists on high standards to deliver with speed and confidence.
Familiarity with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)
Familiarity with test automation tools such as Postman, Selenium, Playwright, Behave
Experience developing automated pipelines (preferably with GitHub Actions)
Experience with Atlassian Jira
Experience working with MS Office/Excel, Google Suite, Notion
Portuguese
Fluent
English
Advanced
Availability to travel as needed to support events and meet the team.

QA Lead

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