Quality Engineering Lead

About the company

At Thrill Labs, we're not just building a gaming company; we're creating a global sensation. We are the innovative force behind Thrill.com, a groundbreaking crypto gaming venture set to launch soon! Our mission? To build the world’s most epic gaming brand and craft magical experiences for millions of users. Backed by a world-class team, we’re here to redefine the future of gaming.

About the role

We are looking for a hands-on Quality Engineering Lead to own the quality of released functionality end-to-end across our product teams.

This is not a traditional tester-only role. You will work from early product specification through release validation and post-release learning. You will help identify gaps in product specs, define acceptance and regression coverage, maintain a clear view of what is and is not automated, and work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, Engineers, and data stakeholders to reduce quality risks before release.

This role also includes ownership of data integrity controls across our product and data pipeline. You will help ensure that backend changes do not silently break warehouse ingestion, financial precision is preserved, and critical data remains correct and consistent from services through to the warehouse.

What you will do

Own the quality of released functionality end-to-end across multiple product areas

Join product discovery and specification work early to identify ambiguity, missing edge cases, inconsistent behavior, and quality risks before development starts

Review, create (if necessary), and maintain acceptance test cases for new features and changes

Build and maintain regression test packs for manual execution

Perform structured manual verification before release, together with Product Managers and Engineers

Define feature release readiness criteria and provide a clear quality sign-off or risk assessment before the release

Maintain a centralized view of test coverage across frontend and backend, including what is automated, what is not, where the gaps are, and what should be prioritized next

Work with Engineering Managers and engineers to reduce blind spots in automation coverage

Contribute directly to Playwright-based test coverage where useful, and be comfortable reviewing existing automated tests

Read and understand backend tests written in Java and identify missing quality coverage in backend-heavy features

Help define a practical, risk-based test strategy for different types of product changes

Track defects by feature and product area, identify trends, and report on recurring quality risks

Analyze escaped defects and production issues, then turn the findings into better specifications, stronger regressions, and improved automation priorities

Drive automated data reconciliation workflows to verify that data in product services and the data warehouse remains consistent

Define and maintain data quality checks that go beyond row counts, including field-level diffing, decimal precision validation, currency/value consistency, and referential integrity checks

Help implement automated quality gates that detect schema drift and backend changes that could break warehouse ingestion before code is merged

Partner with backend engineers and the data warehouse engineer to identify high-risk data models and pipeline changes, and ensure they are covered by appropriate checks

What we are looking for

Strong experience in software quality, quality engineering, or test leadership in a product engineering environment

Experience owning end-to-end release quality, not only executing test cases

Strong understanding of how to test web applications across frontend, backend, APIs, and integrations

Ability to work from product specs and convert them into clear acceptance criteria, test scenarios, edge cases, and regression packs

Experience with automated testing for modern web applications

Practical experience with Playwright, including the ability to contribute to or extend existing tests

Ability to read and understand automated backend tests in Java

Strong structured thinking and ability to identify product, process, technical, and data quality risks early

Experience introducing quality metrics, reporting, and trend analysis that influence engineering and product decisions

Confidence working closely with engineers, Product Managers, Engineering Managers, and data stakeholders in a collaborative way

Good judgment on what should be automated, what should be manually verified, and how to balance speed with release confidence

Comfortable being hands-on while also improving processes across teams

Strong bonus points

Experience in fast-moving product companies or startups

Experience in defining quality gates and release readiness processes

Experience improving flaky end-to-end test suites

Experience with analytics or defect trend reporting

Experience designing or validating data reconciliation and data quality workflows

Experience working with financial or transaction-h