Lead Quality Engineer

You may be a good fit if you have:

• 6+ years of experience in software quality engineering or test automation in a production SaaS environment
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright for end-to-end test automation, including page object patterns and CI integration
• Demonstrated experience defining and implementing quality gates within GitHub Actions pipelines
• Contract testing experience - Pact strongly preferred
• Proficiency in both Java and TypeScript/JavaScript for test implementation
• Experience with Testcontainers or equivalent integration test infrastructure
• A demonstrated ability to reduce test flakiness at scale in distributed systems and service-oriented architectures
• Active use of Claude Code or equivalent AI coding assistants for test generation, migration, and automation - with the judgment to evaluate and validate AI-generated test output rather than ship it blindly

Strong candidates may also have:

• Experience building or scaling a quality engineering function from scratch, including methodology definition and developer enablement programmes
• Familiarity with observability tooling - DataDog, OpenTelemetry - in the context of test health monitoring
• Experience with performance testing tools such as k6
• Hospitality technology industry experience

• Build something that defines the function. This is a lead-level role with real architectural authority over how quality engineering works at Duetto - the infrastructure you design and the standards you set will shape the organisation's testing practice for years.
• AI-first quality engineering, for real. With 50-70% of code AI-generated and Claude Code already in the daily workflow, you'll be pioneering what quality engineering looks like when the code generation model fundamentally changes - evaluating, validating, and building the practices that keep AI-generated code safe to ship.
• A system in active transformation. Live monolith decomposition, Playwright consolidation, contract testing infrastructure to build - the problems are real, consequential, and technically interesting.
• Coach, don't gatekeep. Duetto's hybrid guild model means your job is to make developers better at testing - not to own all the testing yourself. If that's how you see quality engineering, you'll fit right in.
• Modern tooling throughout. Playwright, Testcontainers, Pact, k6, GitHub Actions, DataDog - no legacy constraints, no compromise on the stack.

Duetto's quality engineering function is being built from the ground up - and this is the role that defines what it becomes. As Lead Quality Engineer, you'll architect the test automation infrastructure, quality gate logic, and shared tooling that make high-quality testing the path of least resistance for every engineering team. You'll be operating in a system actively in transformation: a live monolith-to-microservices migration, a consolidation to Playwright, and a codebase where 50-70% of code is AI-generated at scale. If you're a senior quality engineer who leads with coaching rather than gatekeeping and thrives on building things that last, this is your role.

• You'll architect quality gate logic within GitHub Actions CI pipelines - defining coverage thresholds, mutation score gates, contract test enforcement, flaky test quarantine rules, and automated result reporting - and build DataDog quality dashboards tracking test health, coverage trends, and flaky test rates across the engineering organisation.
• You'll spearhead the migration from Selenium and Cypress to a consolidated Playwright framework - owning the shared configuration, CI sharding strategy, and page object library design - while driving PR pipeline test execution toward the P90 target of under 15 minutes through systematic flakiness reduction and pipeline optimisation.
• You'll design and implement Pact contract testing for service boundaries created during the monolith-to-microservices extraction - managing the Pact broker, establishing consumer-driven contract testing as standard practice, and owning API contract testing across service boundaries.
• You'll design and maintain Testcontainers configurations for MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, LocalStack, and RabbitMQ to support reliable, reproducible integration test environments across the engineering organisation.
• You'll champion AI-augmented testing practices using Claude Code, CodeRabbit, and Augment - accelerating test generation, migration, and review at scale, and evaluating AI-generated test code for correctness, coverage gaps, and architectural fit within Duetto's evolving test strategy.
• You'll mentor developers on testing practices, automation patterns, and mutation testing using PIT (Java) and Stryker (JavaScript/TypeScript) - embedding quality thinking across engineering teams in a hybrid guild model where developers own testing and you enable them to do it well.

• Location: Remote - Spain, Croatia, or United Kingdom
• Department: Engineering / Quality

You don't need a hospitality background. If you're a senior quality engineer with strong automation and contract testing expertise, a coaching mindset, and genuine excitement about building a QE function in an AI-first engineering culture - we'd love to hear from you.