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QA Lead (Manual & Automation)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Strong experience owning end-to-end QA strategy across both manual and automated testing
  • Experience defining test coverage, quality standards, and testing approaches across complex software environments
  • Hands-on experience with test case management platforms such as TestMo, TestRail, Zephyr, qTest, or equivalent
  • Strong experience designing and evolving test automation architectures, including framework selection, structure, scalability, and maintainability

Responsibilities

  • Own the QA strategy across maintenance and delivery, evolving manual and automated coverage into a reliable, risk-based quality practice
  • Define the automation architecture, release gates, traceability, and quality standards needed to improve release confidence across a complex and regulated software environment
  • Provide clear, client-facing quality reporting, communicating release readiness, risks, defects, and quality trends
  • Establish quality traceability and testing evidence within regulated, compliance-driven, or audited environments

Key facts

  • Remote from: Latin America
  • Full time
  • Senior (5-10 years)
  • QA Lead
  • English

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Leadership
  • Collaboration
  • Communication

About the company

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Cresteo

Computer Software / SaaS

Cresteo partners with companies to move beyond AI hype and into execution. Agentic AI systems and bespoke software are engineered to run in production, integrate with existing environments, and deliver measurable results in weeks, not quarters. Solutions remain fully client-owned, with controlled risk, no vendor lock-in, and a clear path from pilot to scale.

Company details

Company typeSME
IndustryComputer Software / SaaS
Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Our Essence:

Cresteo is on a mission to be the world leader in people-first and honest nearshore tech services. We prioritize a people-centered approach in an industry that often feels distant and impersonal. Our services are led by experienced, incredibly talented professionals who are changing the system from within - while collaborating with top global clients.

Our foundation is built on:

  • Deep expertise
  • Candid transparency
  • Profit-sharing
  • Fearless innovation

Our team stands out for their deep-rooted passion for corporate change, treating software development as a human sport and art form.

When it comes to recruitment, we won't box you into rigid questionnaires; we genuinely want to get to know you. Our interactions are not transactional but human-centered, seeking genuine understanding and connection.

You'll hear about our core values and experience them with us firsthand. They define our essence.

Join Cresteo and be part of the change we're championing!

Why You Belong Here

As a QA Engineer at Cresteo, you'll be more than just a developer; you will be part of transforming the tech industry through our honest, transparent, and people-centric approach.

Your role will be diverse and dynamic. You'll be instrumental in developing and maintaining our software solutions, working with a varied technology stack, and ensuring that our products are functional, efficient, reliable, and scalable.

By joining us, you're not just choosing a job; you're aligning with a vision that values the human side of tech, where your skills and passion are recognized, nurtured, and celebrated.

What We're Looking For

  • Strong experience owning end-to-end QA strategy across both manual and automated testing
  • Experience defining test coverage, quality standards, and testing approaches across complex software environments
  • Hands-on experience with test case management platforms such as TestMo, TestRail, Zephyr, qTest, or equivalent
  • Strong experience designing and evolving test automation architectures, including framework selection, structure, scalability, and maintainability
  • Hands-on experience with API testing, including REST APIs, authentication flows, and contract validation
  • Experience defining regression testing strategies and release quality gates
  • Strong defect management experience, including severity and priority frameworks, triage processes, and effective collaboration with engineering teams
  • Experience defining and implementing Definition of Done and quality acceptance criteria in collaboration with clients and delivery teams
  • Ability to provide clear, client-facing quality reporting, communicating release readiness, risks, defects, and quality trends
  • Experience establishing quality traceability and testing evidence within regulated, compliance-driven, or audited environments
  • Experience with Playwright or similar modern test automation frameworks is highly valued
  • Understanding of performance and security testing fundamentals
  • Familiarity with data pipeline testing and the ability to coordinate quality practices with Data Engineering teams and automated data testing frameworks such as dbt
  • Experience building or significantly improving a QA practice, particularly in environments with limited existing automated coverage
  • Ability to assess large existing manual test suites and progressively establish an effective, maintainable automation strategy
  • Strong ownership and quality mindset, using risk, coverage, release confidence, and production outcomes rather than test counts alone to evaluate quality
  • Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills across Engineering, Product, Data, and client stakeholders
  • Professional English communication skills and the ability to communicate quality decisions and risks clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Own the QA strategy across maintenance and delivery, evolving manual and automated coverage into a reliable, risk-based quality practice. Define the automation architecture, release gates, traceability, and quality standards needed to improve release confidence across a complex and regulated software environment.

Our Commitment to You:

  • 100% Remote
  • USD above-average salaries
  • Profit Sharing Policy
  • Unlimited PTOs after your first year (20 PTOs the first year)
  • Equipment for your setup
  • Great work/life balance
  • Honest, simple, and transparent culture
  • US-based clients and international teams

Everyone has a story. We're eager to hear yours and help you write the next chapter. 

Are you ready for a change?

#Wearethechange! 

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