Lead QA Automation Engineer

ABOUT US

At Vida, we help people get better- and we're helping the healthcare system get better, too.

Vida is a virtual, personalized obesity care provider that uses evidence-based treatment to help patients manage obesity and related conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, anxiety and depression. Vida's team of Obesity Medicine-Certified Physicians, Registered Dietitians, Expert Coaches and Licensed Therapists takes a whole-person approach to care, helping people lose weight, reduce stress and improve their overall health.

By combining advanced technology with top-notch healthcare providers, Vida is breaking down the barriers that have historically kept people from getting the best care. It's trusted by Fortune 100 companies, major national payers and large providers to enable their employees to live their healthiest lives.

**Vida is authorized to do business in many, but not all, states. If you are not located in or able to work from a state where Vida is registered, you will not be eligible for employment. Please speak with your recruiter to learn more about where Vida is registered.

Please note: Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. as Vida is unable to sponsor work visas for any position.
All Vida Employees must reside in/be able to work from the U.S.- international work is prohibited.

The Lead QA Automation Engineer is a critical technical leader within Vida’s Engineering Enablement Team. This role focuses on building the frameworks, environments, processes and tools that empower product teams to deliver reliable, high-quality software at scale. This person will architect automation frameworks, define quality processes, enable consistent release practices, mentor QA engineers and partner with engineering, DevOps and product teams to ensure our platform ships with confidence.

Responsibilities::
• Define requirements for and collaborate with DevOps/SRE to build and maintain a fully production-like staging environment that enables end-to-end, integration, regression and performance testing.
• Ensure staging includes all required systems including core APIs, backend services, microservices, cron jobs, queues, authentication and mobile/web builds and remains stable, predictable and reflective of production.
• Implement and maintain synthetic and/or de-identified data models across core member/provider/employer scenarios.
• Own automation around data seeding, refresh and reset workflows.
• Integrate automated test suites into staging deployments and ensure staging functions as the primary quality gate before releases.
• Architect, develop and optimize scalable, maintainable automation frameworks across web, mobile and API platforms.
• Define standards for test structure, code quality, reliability and maintainability within QA automation systems.
• Enable product engineers and QA contributors to build tests on these frameworks through clear patterns, documentation and reusable components.
• Ensure automation is deeply aligned with staging as the definitive test environment.
• Build core automated tests for foundational flows and critical infrastructure.
• Develop reusable test utilities, data factories and shared tooling.
• Partner with product teams to expand test coverage and integrate automation into their workflows.
• Diagnose failures, triage issues in frameworks or environments and reduce flakiness.
• Define Vida’s quality strategy with an emphasis on shift-left practices, early defect detection and automated quality gates.
• Own and evolve the release quality process, including quality gates, staging validation workflows and release-readiness criteria—while enabling product teams to execute the process independently.
• Track and improve key quality metrics (automation coverage, defect leakage, cycle time, reliability).
• Serve as a key stakeholder in release readiness reviews.
• Mentor QA engineers and product engineers in writing reliable automated tests, designing scenarios and contributing to shared frameworks.
• Conduct code reviews and drive best practices that promote quality ownership across engineering.
• Collaborate on prioritization and capacity planning for quality initiatives and automation roadmap.
• Partner with engineering leads, product managers, DevOps/SRE and clinical operations to ensure core user journeys and clinical workflows are validated in staging.
• Collaborate with product teams to integrate automation into feature development and define quality gates.
• Support UAT and customer-facing demo environments by ensuring staging reliability and test data availability.

Qualifications::
• Bachelors Degree at a minimum.
• 5-8+ years of QA engineering experience with 2+ years in senior/lead automation roles.
• Strong proficiency in automation tools and languages such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or Java.
• Experience with web, mobile and API testing frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Detox, etc.).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins).
• Experience creating and maintaining non-prod environments used for automation or integration testing.
• Solid knowledge of QA methodologies, test design, debugging best practices and automation principles.

Preferred::
• Experience operating in healthcare, regulated environments (HIPAA) or high-stakes compliance-driven industries.
• Experience building or managing staging/pre-production environments.
• Familiarity with AWS/GCP infrastructure, containers, microservices and Terraform or equivalent IaC.
• Experience with performance testing (k6, JMeter) and observability tools (Datadog, Sentry, Grafana).
• Experience with complex, multi-tenant data seeding strategies or synthetic data generation.

Vida is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

Diversity is more than a commitment at Vida—it is the foundation of what we do. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law.

We seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our platform and those we serve. Vida is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.

We do not accept unsolicited assistance from any headhunters or recruitment firms for any of our job openings. All resumes or profiles submitted by search firms to any employee at Vida in any form without a valid, signed search agreement in place for the specific position will be deemed the sole property of Vida. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Vida as a result of the unsolicited referral.

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