Lead Quality Engineering for a large-scale digital commerce and loyalty modernization program. Define QA strategy, lead automation-first testing across microservices, APIs, event-driven systems, and cloud-native AWS workloads. Drive CI/CD continuous testing, environment and test data management, performance/resiliency/security testing, and mentor QA teams while collaborating with product, architecture, DevOps, and program leadership to ensure release readiness and production reliability.
QA Lead – Digital Commerce & Loyalty Platforms
Location: Atlanta, GA (Mon to Thu in Office)
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced QA Lead to define, drive, and execute the Quality Engineering strategy for a large-scale digital platform modernization and integration orchestration program within the Quick Service Restaurant (QSR) and e-commerce ecosystem.
This role will lead end-to-end quality assurance efforts across cloud-native microservices, API gateways, event-driven architectures, loyalty platforms, identity services, and commerce integrations, ensuring production readiness, scalability, security, reliability, and exceptional customer experiences.
The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in automation-first testing practices, API and integration testing, AWS-native systems, CI/CD-driven quality engineering, observability-led testing, and Agile delivery models. Experience in e-commerce platforms, loyalty ecosystems, customer engagement journeys, and high-volume transaction systems is highly desirable.
Key Responsibilities
Quality Strategy & Leadership
- Define and own the end-to-end Quality Engineering strategy, roadmap, governance model, and execution framework across discovery, development, integration, testing, and production rollout phases.
- Establish quality standards, testing methodologies, quality gates, and release readiness criteria aligned with enterprise delivery objectives.
- Lead QA planning, estimation, staffing, risk assessment, and execution across multiple Agile teams and workstreams.
Functional, Integration & API Testing
- Lead testing efforts across cloud-native microservices, RESTful APIs, middleware orchestration services, identity platforms, loyalty systems, and third-party integrations.
- Design and execute comprehensive test strategies covering functional, integration, regression, system, user acceptance, and end-to-end testing.
- Validate complex customer journeys including account creation, authentication, loyalty enrollment, rewards redemption, digital ordering, checkout, payment processing, and customer engagement workflows.
Event-Driven & Cloud-Native Testing
- Develop testing approaches for event-driven and asynchronous architectures, including message queues, event streams, and API gateway integrations.
- Validate event propagation, message reliability, ordering, fault tolerance, retry mechanisms, and system resiliency.
- Ensure seamless interoperability between cloud-native services, external platforms, and enterprise systems.
Test Automation & Continuous Testing
- Drive an automation-first quality engineering culture across the program.
- Design and implement scalable automation frameworks for:
- API Automation
- UI Automation
- Integration Testing
- Contract Testing
- Regression Testing
- Establish continuous testing practices integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
- Enable automated validation for feature flags, progressive releases, canary deployments, and production rollouts.
Environment & Test Data Management
- Establish test environment management strategies for cloud-native applications and integrated ecosystems.
- Define test data management, masking, synthetic data generation, and service virtualization approaches.
- Ensure stable and scalable testing environments supporting continuous delivery objectives.
Stakeholder Collaboration & Reporting
- Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Architects, Engineering Leads, DevOps teams, Business Analysts, and Program Leadership.
- Embed quality guardrails and governance controls throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
- Provide executive-level reporting on quality metrics, defect trends, release readiness, risks, and mitigation plans.
Team Leadership & Mentorship
- Lead and mentor QA engineers and automation specialists.
- Establish testing best practices, reusable assets, standards, and quality engineering frameworks.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives focused on efficiency, automation coverage, and quality outcomes.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 10–15 years of experience in Quality Engineering, with at least 3+ years in a QA leadership role supporting enterprise-scale digital platforms.
- Strong experience testing: Microservices architectures; REST APIs; API Gateways; Event-driven systems; Distributed applications
- Proven expertise in test automation frameworks and tools such as: Selenium; Playwright; Cypress; Rest Assured; Karate; Postman/Newman; JMeter; Similar modern automation platforms
- Hands-on experience implementing CI/CD-driven continuous testing using: Jenkins; GitHub Actions; GitLab CI/CD; AWS DevOps Toolchain; Comparable platforms
- Strong experience testing cloud-native applications on AWS, including containerized and serverless workloads.
- Experience validating loyalty platforms, identity management solutions, and digital commerce workflows.
- Strong understanding of: E-commerce customer journeys; Checkout and payment processing; Customer engagement platforms; Loyalty lifecycle management; Omnichannel digital experiences
- Experience implementing performance, resiliency, security, and chaos testing strategies.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, analytical, and leadership skills.
- Experience working within Agile, Scrum, and SAFe delivery frameworks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in QSR, restaurant technology, retail, hospitality, or high-scale consumer-facing digital platforms.
- Hands-on experience validating: Feature Flags; Progressive Rollouts; Canary Releases
- Experience testing high-volume transactional systems with strict latency and availability SLAs.
- Certifications such as: ISTQB; Agile Testing Certifications; AWS Certifications; DevOps Certifications; SAFe Certifications
Compensation, Benefits and Duration
Minimum Compensation: USD 52,000
Maximum Compensation: USD 182,000
Compensation is based on actual experience and qualifications of the candidate. The above is a reasonable and a good faith estimate for the role.
Medical, vision, and dental benefits, 401k retirement plan, variable pay/incentives, paid time off, and paid holidays are available for full-time employees.
This position is available for independent contractors
No applications will be considered if received more than 120 days after the date of this post.
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