Job description
About Us
At Zyte, we eat data for breakfast and you can eat your breakfast anywhere and work for Zyte. Founded in 2010, we are a globally distributed team of over 250 Zytans working from over 28 countries who are on a mission to enable our customers to extract the data they need to continue to innovate and grow their businesses. We believe that all businesses deserve a smooth pathway to data
For more than a decade, Zyte has led the way in building powerful, easy-to-use tools to collect, format, and deliver web data, quickly, dependably, and at scale. And today, the data we extract helps thousands of organizations make smarter business decisions, secure competitive advantage, and drive sustainable growth. Today, over 3,000 companies and 1 million developers rely on our tools and services to get the data they need from the web.
The Head of Quality Engineering (QE) plays a strategic leadership role in defining and driving Zyte’s overall quality vision across the entire product portfolio, with a strong emphasis on agile delivery methodologies, automation and technical leadership. This role oversees and mentors the QA team, sets high-level quality standards and ensures the seamless integration of automated testing within CI/CD pipelines. This position requires hands-on involvement with code and automation alongside management responsibilities, focusing on resource allocation, cross-team alignment, and continuous improvement of QA processes, tools and methodologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, focusing on resource allocation, cross-team alignment, and fostering professional growth
- Define implement and adjust Zyte’s quality vision in collaboration with senior management and key stakeholders
- Design and implement automated API testing and regression testing strategies for product releases
- Develop and manage test data solutions to support comprehensive and scalable automated testing
- Establish and refine QE best practices, metrics, and test case management methodologies
- Drive the evaluation, selection, and implementation of quality engineering technologies and tools
- Ensure seamless integration of automated testing within CI/CD pipelines
- Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to align quality strategies with business goals
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in software quality assurance, with at least 4 years in a leadership role
- Proven hands-on experience with test automation tooling (e.g. Selenium, Playwright)
- Strong development background and coding skills in a Tier1 programming language and experience implementing automated testing solutions
- Experience in implementing full stack automated testing solutions
- Deep knowledge of API testing tools and methodologies
- Experience with building and maintaining scalable test environments
- Experience with designing CI/CD workflows
- Demonstrated expertise in test data management
- Strong understanding of load and performance testing methodologies
- Experience with bug tracking and issue reporting systems (Jira, Linear, Sentry)
- Proven ability to build and lead high-performing, cross-functional QE teams
- Excellent understanding of web technologies, APIs, and data extraction systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of security and vulnerability scanning tools
- Experience with static code analysis tools and methodologies
- Familiarity with mobile app testing tools and frameworks
- Experience with visual regression testing tools
- Experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
What We Offer
- Opportunity to shape the automation strategy for a leading data extraction company
- Collaborative and innovative work environment
- Professional development and growth opportunities
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Remote-friendly work culture with flexible scheduling options
