Habit Burger & GrillRemote
Director, Quality Engineering
United States
Full-time
1 week ago
$181,000 - $230,000 USD
H1B Sponsor
Key skills
Test automationAWS cloud servicesKubernetesNodeJSTypescriptGolangCI/CD pipelinesStakeholder managementLeadershipCommunicationObservability best practicesTypeScriptPlaywrightAWSDatadogCI/CDStakeholder Management
About this role
Habit Burger & Grill is looking for a Quality Engineering Director to lead a high-performing team of quality engineers. The role focuses on ensuring system stability, performance, and reliability while driving automation best practices across API, Web, and Mobile platforms.
Responsibilities:
- Refine existing practices and implement new quality assurance practices across the organization to ensure the highest quality deliverables reach our consumers
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of onshore and nearshore quality engineers
- Define and track key KPIs and quality metrics to evaluate system health, test coverage, and automation ROI
- Drive root cause analysis of production issues using observability tools such as DataDog, ensuring continuous system stability
- Guide the implementation and evolution of test automation frameworks for API, Web, and Mobile platforms
- Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize performance and quality in a cloud-native infrastructure
- Maintain a strong partnership with product and engineering leadership to align quality efforts with business goals
- Stay current on emerging technologies and industry best practices in quality engineering, DevOps, and cloud architecture
Requirements:
- 8+ years of proven experience leading distributed quality engineering teams, with a focus on strong focus on test automation
- At minimum bachelor's in CS, CIS, engineering, or equivalent experience
- Strong Computer Science fundamental knowledge including data structure and algorithms, system design
- Deep technical knowledge of code first test automation tools (e.g., Playwright, Appium, WebdriverIO, BrowserStack)
- Extensive hands-on experience with AWS cloud services and Kubernetes, including monitoring, scaling, and troubleshooting
- Excellent grasp of CI/CD pipelines, with the ability to integrate automated testing into deployment workflows
- Experience with observability, monitoring, and logging best practices in distributed systems
- Strong communication, leadership, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with NodeJS, Typescript, and Golang preferred