[Hiring] QA Lead @Baselane

Role Description

We operate in an AI-first engineering environment, where AI-powered development is at the core of how we design, build, and deliver software. We’re looking for a hands-on QA Lead who is equally comfortable writing Playwright tests and leading a team of both manual and automation testers. This is a player-coach role:

• Spend a significant part of your time building automation yourself.
• Guide our manual QA team as they grow into automation.
• Help the engineering team write better test cases.

Expect roughly half your time hands-on in the codebase, building new automated tests, healing flaky or broken ones, and helping our engineers write better tests for the features they ship. You’ll set the quality strategy, lead by example, and work closely with Engineering, Product, Design, and DevOps to help our engineers own quality end-to-end. The other half focused on building the QA team and practice.

Our stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, NestJS, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and AWS. Our test stack is built around Playwright.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software quality, including 2+ years leading QA teams while remaining hands-on.
• Strong, current hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks with Playwright (or Cypress, Selenium, or similar), using TypeScript/JavaScript.
• Experience testing web applications and APIs (GraphQL for main product, REST for partner endpoints).
• Proven track record coaching manual testers into automation and integrating tests into CI/CD workflows.
• Hands-on experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to write and maintain tests.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence quality practices across engineering and product.
• Experience testing AI/LLM-powered features.

Requirements

• Experience with test data management and environment setup.
• Judgment to validate AI coding agents' output.
• Experience building eval sets (golden datasets) and defining pass criteria for non-deterministic output.
• Running evals in CI to catch regressions from prompt or model changes.

Benefits

• $100,000 - $130,000 a year.
• This is a remote first role.
• Competitive salaries and benefits.
• Opportunity to help build a new product and culture from the ground up.