Lead Software QA Engineer

The title uses 'Lead' which maps to Senior on the seniority ladder; the 7+ years requirement and scope (setting practices, coaching teams, owning quality strategy) are consistent with a Senior-level individual contributor, not a people-manager role.

Automation tooling (Cypress, Playwright, Selenium) is listed in the Background Profile as a hard requirement; the three tools are presented as interchangeable alternatives, so Cypress is the primary with the others in alternatives.

AI tools experience is listed in the Background Profile with firm language ('Demonstrated use of AI tools') — treated as a hard gate, though no specific AI product is named.

SaaS industry experience is 'strongly preferred' per the posting — not a hard gate.

Bachelor's degree is explicitly 'preferred,' not required, so the degree requirement is set to None.

The comp range is stated as '$130K–$150K+'; the '+' suggests upside beyond $150K but no firm upper bound is given, so $150,000 is used as the stated maximum.

The role requires US citizenship or Green Card; no visa sponsorship is available — noted here as it affects the eligible candidate pool but is not a field in the schema.

The alternative occupation code 15-1252 is noted because the role has a strong automation-engineering and tooling-build dimension, but the primary framing is quality/QA strategy and testing.