Lead Quality Engineer

Location: Dallas, TX 75209, USA

Job Category: Technical Operations

Requisition Number: LEADQ002686

Schedule: Full-Time

Minimum Pay: $110,000 USD

Maximum Pay: $125,000 USD

Description: This Is How We Fly

At JSX, we’re not just a lifestyle carrier – we’re a lifestyle employer. Here, entrepreneurship meets determination, and excellence is our standard. We believe that the journey is just as important as the destination, and every day, we strive to create a Joyful, Simple eXperience for our Customers. Join us, and find your runway to growth, innovation, and success.

About the Role:

The Lead Quality Engineer is a hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping and advancing quality engineering practices across JSX’s software development organization. This role ensures that systems are built with reliability, observability, and testability from the start—not inspected after development.

You will define testing strategies, guide automation efforts, and partner closely with engineering, product, and business teams to ensure high-quality software delivery across web, mobile, and backend systems. This role plays a key part in evolving JSX’s quality engineering maturity, including leveraging automation, observability, and AI-assisted testing to improve coverage, velocity, and release confidence.

This role is based in Dallas, TX and requires on‑site work 4 days per week. Candidates must be local to the DFW area to be considered, as relocation assistance is not available.
A Day in the Life:

Your day will be highly collaborative and technical, focused on building scalable quality practices, improving automation, and ensuring reliable system performance across customer-facing platforms. Additional responsibilities include:

Define and promote quality engineering best practices including automation strategy, test design, and CI/CD integration

Establish standards for test coverage, defect management, and release readiness

Design and maintain scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and service layers

Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid feedback and reliable releases

Partner with engineering teams to ensure systems are designed for testability and observability

Identify opportunities to leverage AI-assisted testing tools and automation platforms

Define and track quality metrics including coverage, defect trends, and release readiness

Support UAT, release coordination, and validation of business-critical workflows

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure quality is embedded throughout the development lifecycle

Why You’ll Love This Role:

Shape Engineering Excellence: You’ll define and elevate how quality is built across the organization

High Impact Work: Your work directly impacts customer experience, reliability, and release confidence

Modern Tech Stack: Work with cloud-native systems, automation frameworks, and AI-enabled tooling

Collaborative Culture: Partner with Product, Engineering, and Business teams to drive meaningful outcomes

What Makes a Successful Lead Quality Engineer?

We’re looking for someone who is:

A Technical Leader: You guide teams and influence quality practices without formal authority

Quality-Driven: You believe quality is built in—not tested at the end

Analytical: You use data and metrics to drive decisions and improvements

Collaborative: You partner effectively across engineering, product, and business teams

Innovative: You embrace modern tools, automation, and AI to improve testing efficiency

Entrepreneurial: You take ownership, act decisively, and continually seek to improve.

Required Experience:

7+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Testing, or Software Development with a strong focus on automation

Experience designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks

Strong programming experience in Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Python

Experience testing APIs, microservices, and distributed systems

Experience integrating automation into CI/CD pipelines

Preferred Experience:

Experience with modern testing frameworks such as Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, or similar

Experience with cloud-native applications and microservices architecture

Experience with AI-assisted testing tools or automation platforms

Experience in airline, travel, e-commerce, or reservation systems

Skills, Licenses, & Certifications:

Strong understanding of QA methodologies, test design, and automation strategies

Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps

Ability to design systems for testability, observability, and reliability

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction

Pay & Perks:

Compensation is $110,000 to $125,000 annually. This was established after performing market research and is aligned with our approach to compensation.

Health Benefits: New Crewmember's become eligible for coverage on the 1st of the month following the start date, with medical plans beginning at just $110/month. 100% employer paid dental & vision, plus up to $2,100 annually for HSA contribution. Short-term and long-term disability coverage at no cost.

Travel Benefits: Enjoy free non-revenue standby travel on JSX, plus deeply discounted standby travel other major domestic & international airlines for you and your qualifying immediate family.

401(k) match: 50% of your first 8%

Generous PTO: Take time to recharge with our flexible PTO plan.

Additional Information:

May perform other responsibilities as assigned. Responsibilities and duties may change when circumstances dictate (emergencies, changes in workload, rush jobs, technical developments, etc).

JSX seeks to provide equality of opportunity in all aspects of employment, as well as to ensure that all personnel activities, such as the recruitment, selection, training, compensation, benefits, discipline, promotion, transfer, layoff and termination processes remain free of illegal discrimination and harassment based upon race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and national origin.

Ready to soar with us? Join JSX, where every day is a chance to be part of something eXtraordinary!

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