Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

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Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - HP IQ

Description -
Who We Are
HP IQ is HP's new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP's global scale, we're building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates.

We're assembling a diverse, world-class team-engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds-focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP's portfolio. Together, we're developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless.

We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful-always with a human-centric mindset.

By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we're expanding what's possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work.

Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work.

About The Role
The Quality Engineering team ensures every HP IQ experience is robust, reliable, and delightful to use. We are looking for a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to lead test strategy and quality initiatives across software and hardware teams. You'll define and scale test automation, influence architecture for testability, and partner across disciplines to raise the bar for what quality means in the AI era.

What You Might Do

• Design comprehensive test strategies that align with product goals, technical architecture, and customer experience.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks for functional, regression, and integration testing.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration with engineers, product managers, UX, and design to embed quality from ideation through release.
• Define and drive key quality metrics, triage defect patterns, and surface actionable insights through dashboards and reports.
• Establish standards for test planning, execution, and documentation, mentoring QA engineers and championing best practices across teams.
• Build tooling and infrastructure to support continuous integration, faster feedback cycles, and scalable test coverage.
• Proactively identify future testing needs across cloud, edge, and device interfaces-shaping the long-term QA roadmap.

Essential Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software quality engineering, with a proven record of raising quality bars in complex systems.
• 4+ years leading QA projects or frameworks, including mentoring or coaching peers.
• Strong background in both manual and automated testing for customer-facing applications. Proficiency with test automation tools and scripting (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Python, or similar).
• Deep understanding of QA methodologies, metrics, and test architecture design.
• Experience programmatically validating product behavior and analyzing diagnostic signals from CI pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred Skills

• Experience testing AI-powered or edge-connected applications.
• Familiarity with backend service testing, distributed systems, and API validation.
• Strong communication skills that emphasize collaboration, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Knowledge of cloud-based infrastructure and CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or CircleCI).
• Passion for user experience, accessibility, and long-term product health.

Salary range: $150,000 - $210,000
Compensation & Benefits (Full-Time Employees)
The salary range for this role is listed above. Final salary offered is based upon multiple factors including individual job-related qualifications, education, experience, knowledge and skills.

At HP IQ, we offer a competitive and comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance

• Generous time off policies, including;

• 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure

• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave (US benefits overview)

Job -
Engineering

Schedule -
Full time

Shift -
No shift premium (United States of America)

Travel -
Relocation -
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