**Objective** Lead the end\-to\-end quality strategy for web, mobile, and API solutions built on a .NET microservices architecture, ensuring functional, technical, and operational excellence in distributed environments deployed on Kubernetes. **Core Responsibilities** * Define and lead testing strategies for functional, regression, smoke, integration, and end\-to\-end scenarios. * Analyze complex business flows and engage early in feature design to identify risks and prevent regressions before development begins. * Validate interactions across microservices, contracts, events, and data consistency involving SQL, Redis, and messaging systems. * Own the definition of edge cases, failure scenarios, and boundary conditions for critical features. * Advise engineering teams on acceptance criteria, quality standards, and best practices during implementation. * Design and maintain quality artifacts: risk matrices, test plans, acceptance criteria, and functional documentation. * Investigate issues using logs, metrics, and distributed tracing to identify root causes across multiple services. * Collaborate with DevOps and Architecture teams to validate deployments, behavior in multi\-stage environments, and post\-release resilience. * Promote a quality\-first mindset, mentor other QA engineers, and drive continuous improvements to the testing process. **Key Soft Skills** * Clear communication with both technical and business stakeholders. * Leadership through influence, strong ownership, and collaborative decision\-making. * Critical thinking and a preventive mindset focused on avoiding defects rather than detecting them late. * Ability to analyze and reason about complex, distributed system behaviors. **Desired Technical Profile** **Core (Required):** * Advanced functional testing across APIs, UIs, and cross\-service workflows * Solid understanding of microservices, contracts, messaging patterns, and data flows * SQL for data validation and analysis * Observability fundamentals: logs, metrics, and distributed tracing **Nice to Have – Automation Experience:** *Not mandatory, but a strong plus if able to improve or maintain existing suites.* * Playwright, Cypress, Postman/Newman * xUnit, NUnit, Jest, Testing Library * k6 or Gatling for performance testing **Infrastructure / DevOps (Nice to Have):** * Kubernetes, Helm, Docker * GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps * Service Bus, Event Hub, Redis **Related Tech Stack:** * .NET 7/8, React, React Native Job Type: Full\-time Pay: $50,000\.00 \- $60,000\.00 per month Work Location: Remote