Join the Team
Serv, a global executive recruitment partner, is hiring on behalf of our client TakeProfitTrader for a Lead QA Developer.
Take Profit Trader is a high-growth proprietary trading firm handling hundreds of millions of dollars in trading volume. Dedicated to innovation, operational excellence, and empowering traders globally, they are hiring a Lead QA Developer to own the quality strategy end-to-end.
To learn more about TakeProfitTrader, visit: https://takeprofittrader.com
Position Overview
As the Lead QA Developer, you will be responsible for defining and driving the company’s QA vision, processes, and execution across all areas of testing—manual, automation, performance, and regression. You will lead a team of QA engineers, guide testing strategies for complex systems, and ensure a high-quality user experience across TakeProfitTrader’s products. This role requires a blend of hands-on technical expertise and leadership capability, with ownership of testing at every stage of the development lifecycle.
Position Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of QA engineers across manual and automation testing
- Define and continuously improve the overall QA strategy, test standards, and best practices
- Design, review, and maintain test plans, test cases, test scenarios, and test data based on functional and technical requirements
- Own and execute functional, integration, system, and regression testing for all releases
- Build, maintain, and scale automated test suites for UI, API, and backend workflows
- Plan and execute load, stress, and performance testing to validate system behavior under peak traffic
- Ensure defects are logged with clear reproduction steps, impact analysis, and prioritization
- Partner with developers to improve testability, automation coverage, and defect prevention
- Provide quality sign-off and risk assessment for production releases
- Establish QA metrics and reporting to track quality trends over time
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, with experience leading QA teams
- Strong hands-on experience in manual and automation testing
- Proven ability to define and scale regression testing strategies
- Experience testing complex web applications, APIs, and backend services
- Deep understanding of functional, regression, integration, and system testing
- Hands-on experience with modern test automation and performance testing tools
- Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum development and release cycles
- Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
Dream Teammate
Our ideal teammate:
- Is proactive and accountable
- Thinks strategically and executes consistently
- Communicates with clarity and confidence
- Brings a positive, growth-oriented mindset
- Is highly organized and dependable
- Embraces learning and feedback
- Cares deeply about doing great work
Compensation
- Starting at $145K + bonus
Location