Quality Platform Lead

This is a technical leadership role (Staff IC) reporting to the Director of Engineering. We are looking for a hands-on Quality Platform Lead to own Vio's quality strategy and automation platform across web, mobile, browser extensions, internal tooling and related surfaces. Product engineers own the tests for the features they build. The remit is the platform, the strategy and the enablement that make that work hold up at scale. There is no QA department and no plans to create one. Current stack includes Web: Playwright, Checkly, BrowserStack; Mobile: Patrol (Flutter). One insourced QA Engineer supports the role. Expect no direct people-management responsibilities in the near future.

Responsibilities

Own the quality strategy and the automation platform across products, covering direction, standards and day-to-day health; Decide whether to keep, evolve or replace the current tooling, with clear trade-offs on speed, maintainability and DX; Set coding standards and patterns for test code, and keep the suite focused on the tests that earn their place; Build automated release gates into CI/CD and define what protects the core journeys; Give Product, Engineering and leadership real-time quality telemetry on release readiness, risk and pipeline health; Put failure triage and flaky-test quarantine in place; Work with Product and Engineering to protect high-impact journeys and APIs; Retire flaky and low-value tests, and concentrate effort where the risk is highest; Act as the technical stakeholder for testability (hooks, mocks, contract tests, test data); Make it easy for product engineers to write, run and maintain tests locally and in CI; Embed quality into how teams plan and ship, and mentor the insourced QA Engineer; Drive a measurable increase in developer satisfaction with quality tooling and DX

Requirements

Track record of building or overhauling automation platforms (SWE / QE / SDET); Writes production-grade code across app, test and infra repos; Uses AI agents effectively in own engineering workflow and can judge where they belong inside a quality platform; Cross-platform web and mobile automation judgment, able to weigh unified toolchains against separate ones; Deep CI/CD and test infrastructure experience (GitHub Actions, device clouds, parallelisation, test data); Can translate quality risk into telemetry and decisions that Eng, Product and leadership act on; Hands-on builder who wants to code the platform yourself; Designs platforms developers adopt and prioritises risk-based coverage

Benefits

Plenty of chances to learn and grow within an open, diverse culture which promotes knowledge sharing, trust and transparency; A great compensation package, perks and benefits (including significant stock appreciation rights); Stock Appreciation Rights for all employees; Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need); Chance to work remotely; Catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, and occasional barbecues in the garden at the Amsterdam office; Company events in Amsterdam and abroad; Budget for your dream home office; Access to free mental health support via OpenUp