Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

About PrePass

PrePass® is North America's most trusted weigh station bypass and toll management platform. We’re transforming how the transportation industry operates—creating solutions that keep trucks moving safely, efficiently, and compliantly. This means making bold decisions and building systems that support not only fleets but the broader economy. It all starts with enabling commercial vehicles to keep rolling with seamless toll management, weigh station bypass, and safety solutions. It’s what we do best, and we do it to meet the demands of the road every day.

That’s why people join us: our solutions are implemented in real-time, on highways and interstates across the nation, helping fleets go farther, faster. This work challenges and rewards, presenting complex problems that need ambitious answers. We hire bold thinkers with a heart for impact, a passion for progress, and the optimism to shape the future of transportation.

About the Role

The Lead Quality Assurance Engineer will be instrumental in evolving and scaling our automation frameworks, tools, and testing practices. In this role, you will design and lead automation strategies across web, API, and mobile platforms while mentoring QA engineers to align with PrePass’s quality standards and goals. You’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams including development, product, and DevOps to ensure efficient, high-quality software delivery. This is hybrid position based out of our downtown Phoenixoffice

Essential Responsibilities

Test Automation Leadership

• Lead the design and development of scalable automation frameworks for web, mobile, API, and backend systems supporting functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing.
• Define and maintain automation best practices, ensuring alignment with industry standards and compliance requirements.
• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to QA engineers, promoting consistent testing standards and high-quality delivery.

Automation Development & CI/CD Integration

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test scripts using tools such as Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress, and perform API testing using Postman, ReadyAPI, Karate, or Rest Assured.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI.
• Collaborate with DevOps to enhance test automation efficiency and ensure robust integration across environments.

Collaboration & Agile Practices

• Partner with developers, product owners, and managers to proactively identify and resolve defects early in the development cycle.
• Participate in Agile (Scrum) processes, applying TDD and BDD principles to maximize test coverage and quality outcomes.
• Contribute to sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives, providing QA insights and feedback.

Quality Oversight & Process Improvement

• Develop and manage test cases, test data, and defect tracking in tools such as Azure DevOps or JIRA-Xray.
• Track and report key QA metrics, including test coverage, defect leakage, and test cycle times.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies to enhance QA effectiveness.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software quality assurance, including 5+ years in test automation.
• Strong knowledge of QA methodologies, automation frameworks, and CI/CD practices.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages: Java, Python, C#, or JavaScript.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cypress, Playwright, Appium (for mobile), and Postman/REST Assured/Karate/ReadyAPI.
• Experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks from scratch.
• Familiarity with test frameworks such as JUnit, TestNG, Pytest, or Mocha.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD environments (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI).
• Strong understanding of relational databases (SQL Server, MySQL, or SQLite).
• Experience designing and executing test strategies, reporting defects, verifying fixes, and conducting root cause analysis.

Bonus Points For

• Experience in load, stress, or performance testing.
• Knowledge of API performance and security testing.
• Familiarity with contract testing and mobile application testing.
• Exposure to Docker, Kubernetes, or NoSQL databases such as Cosmos DB.

Desired Characteristics

• Strategic thinker with a proactive, problem-solving mindset.
• Strong communicator who fosters collaboration across teams.
• Detail-oriented with a commitment to continuous improvement.
• Self-motivated and adaptable to evolving technologies and processes.
• Passionate about mentoring and driving team-wide quality initiatives.

How We Will Take Care of You

• Robust benefit package that includes medical, dental, and vision that start on date of hire.
• Paid Time Off, to include vacation, sick, holidays, and floating holidays.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Company-funded “lifestyle account” upon date of hire for you to apply toward your physical and mental well-being (i.e., ski passes, retreats, gym memberships).
• Tuition Reimbursement Program.
• Voluntary benefits, to include but not limited to Legal and Pet Discounts.
• Employee Assistance Program (available at no cost to you).
• Company-sponsored and funded “Culture Team” that focuses on the Physical, Mental, and Professional well-being of employees.
• Community Give-Back initiatives.
• Culture that focuses on employee development initiatives.