Quality Lead

Quality Lead

About Brahma AI

Role Overview

Key Responsibilities

• Testing Architecture & Mentorship: Coach and enable Studio developers on designing comprehensive testing strategies-challenging them to think through integration workflows, system boundaries, and end-to-end failure paths.
• Standards & Accountability: Establish clear quality standards, test coverage expectations, and pre-release accountability across Studio feature streams.
• Shift-Left Integration: Partner with product and engineering leads during early architectural and PRD stages to ensure testability and quality criteria are defined prior to development.

• System & Environment Reliability: Define testing strategies and operational health checks to challenge engineering teams on verifying pipeline execution, job execution health, and infrastructure stability across compute environments.
• Subjective to Objective Benchmarking: Create structured frameworks to translate open-ended or subjective requirements-ranging from media output standards to UI responsiveness and executive performance targets-into measurable quality gates.
• Exploratory Testing Frameworks: Design structured exploratory testing practices that empower teams to uncover unhandled edge cases and unexpected system behaviors outside automated suites.

• Quality Systems Governance & Adoption: Define and govern the ecosystem for test management, quality gate tracking, and release health documentation-focusing on driving consistent team adoption, enforcing usage standards, and maintaining accurate documentation rather than managing technical infrastructure.
• Shared QA Integration: Architect clear, asynchronous test-case specifications and handoff protocols to collaborate efficiently with the shared QA team across time zones and organizational boundaries.
• Release Governance & Post-Mortems: Monitor pre-release quality gates, participate in release risk evaluations, and lead root-cause post-mortems to continuously refine engineering practices.

Must Haves

• Quality Leadership & Coaching: Proven track record as a Quality Lead or Quality Architect guiding engineering teams to adopt advanced testing methodologies, embrace end-to-end quality ownership, and challenge developers to uncover hidden system risks.
• Translating Ambiguous Requirements: Exceptional ability to turn subjective or qualitative goals (e.g., performance expectations, UX polish, output fidelity) into clear, repeatable testing standards and acceptance criteria.
• Process & Tooling Ownership: Experience selecting, structuring, and driving team-wide adoption of test management platforms, quality documentation workflows, and gate tracking metrics.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to build efficient, asynchronous workflows that align product development teams with shared QA resources across regions and time zones.

• System & API Architecture Awareness: Familiarity with web APIs, distributed systems, and backend integration flows-enough to effectively challenge engineers on edge cases, contract boundaries, and silent failures.
• Experience defining quality or performance baselines for complex media pipelines, AI-driven applications, or non-deterministic systems.
• Experience operating in scaling, high-growth engineering organizations undergoing rapid integration.