# Senior QE Lead, Infrastructure
**Company:** [Airbnb](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/airbnb)
**Location:** Remote
**Salary:** $132K-$154K
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Jira, Asana, Smartsheets, Google Docs, Scrum, Agile, Test Automation
**Posted:** 2026-06-26
> Lead QE efforts for Airbnb's Infrastructure org, driving test automation adoption, managing quality programs, and leading a distributed QA team. Requires 10+ years QA experience and strong people leadership.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Be accountable for planning and execution of the QE team's priorities.
- Work with QE leadership to define, launch, and execute multiple strategic and operational initiatives.
- Ensure quality is consistent across all projects and is represented during project planning, development, and launches.
- Drive the adoption of automated testing as a key strategic lever for ensuring efficient and effective testing.
- Clearly communicate program status and progress to large groups of project stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Effectively manage change by influencing and communicating with key stakeholders. Anticipate risks associated with change management, and ensure creative and effective mitigations are available.
- In collaboration with Product teams, identify opportunities and advocate for product improvements and/or tools that support the team's strategy and the needs of the customer.
- Work to quickly become well-versed in the engineering team's product/domain space.
- Coordinate and collaborate with 3rd party vendors and QE counterparts.
- Regularly assess project risks and opportunities. Leverage best practices and continually drive process improvements, but work creatively to drive execution and simplification.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of software quality assurance experience, with a proven track record of quality delivery.
- Experience with partnering with Quality Engineering teams to help advance test automation.
- Strong people leadership skills, including hiring, performance management, career development, and building a strong, happy team.
- Proactive communication and interpersonal skills; strong stakeholder management.
- Comfortable in a fast-paced environment, managing ambiguity and uncertainty.
- Ability to anticipate risks & issues and proactively mitigate them.
- Experience using collaborative project management tools and processes (e.g. JIRA, Asana, Smartsheets, Google Docs, scrum, agile).
- Passion for building and delivering high quality software.
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