# Quality Engineering Lead > Mindera · Blumenau, Brazil (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-06-11 **Workplace:** remote ## Description **ABOUT THE ROLE** A lot of teams have been told to "shift left" and have taken it to mean one thing: hand the entire testing pyramid to the developers and hope for the best. The result is familiar. Thin or non-existent QA support, unit tests written to satisfy a coverage gate rather than catch anything, brittle end-to-end suites nobody trusts, and CI pipelines that get slower and more expensive every quarter with nobody tending them. Our clients keep asking us for the same thing: a senior quality mind who can come in, work alongside their engineers, and genuinely change how the team thinks about quality. Not someone to write all the tests for them, someone who makes the whole team better at owning them. That is this role. You will embed with a client, often working across more than one of their development teams, and raise the quality bar from the inside: at the whiteboard before any code is written, in the test suites at every level of the pyramid, and in the pipelines that ship the work. You lead the quality discipline through influence, mentoring, and worked examples, not by taking the testing off anyone's plate. ## Requirements **WHAT YOU'LL DO** \- Shift quality left, properly. Help teams catch defects at the cheapest possible moment: during refinement and task definition, before a line of code exists. Join story-writing and design discussions, ask the questions that surface ambiguity and edge cases early, and coach teams to build testability and clear acceptance criteria into the work from the start. \- Lift the whole testing pyramid. Work with developers across the full range, from unit and integration tests through to end-to-end and system testing. Help them write tests that are fast, deterministic, and worth trusting; rebalance suites that are top-heavy or flaky; and establish what to test at each level, and why. \- Make pipelines fast and cheap. Treat CI as a product. Profile and optimise pipeline definitions, cut wasted compute, parallelise and shard test execution sensibly, and shorten feedback loops so teams get a trustworthy signal in minutes, not hours. Help them see the time and cost their pipelines actually incur, and bring both down. \- Bring AI into the quality toolkit. Help teams get real value from AI-assisted development: generating and maintaining tests, accelerating code review, and shortening feedback loops, while keeping a critical eye on what these tools produce so quality and trust do not slip. You champion these tools and show teams how to use them well. \- Mentor and enable. This is the heart of the job. Pair with engineers, run workshops, review test code and pipeline changes, and leave behind teams that hold a higher quality bar on their own after you have gone. Success is measured by how much better the team is, not by how much you personally produced. \- Own quality strategy across the SDLC. Assess where a team or programme stands, agree a pragmatic plan to improve it, and drive that plan through delivery: test strategy, environments and test data, release confidence, and the metrics that tell everyone whether quality is moving in the right direction. **WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR** \- Deep, hands-on quality experience across the entire testing pyramid, from unit tests to end-to-end and system testing, with well-reasoned opinions about what belongs where. \- A real engineer's grasp of code. You read and write it comfortably, review pull requests on their merits, and earn the respect of senior developers because you speak their language. \- Genuine fluency in Agile delivery and what shift-left means in practice: influencing quality at definition and design time, not only at the test phase. \- Solid CI expertise. You can pick apart a pipeline, find the waste, and make it faster, cheaper, and more reliable. Tooling varies across our clients, so we care that you understand the principles; experience with the likes of GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or CircleCI is the kind of thing we mean. \- Comfort across the testing toolbox, whatever the stack. We work tool-agnostically and value transferable depth over any specific badge. To give a sense of the territory: Playwright, Cypress or Selenium for end-to-end; Jest, Vitest, JUnit or pytest at the unit and integration level; k6, JMeter or Gatling for performance. \- A pro-AI outlook, backed by hands-on experience. You use AI-assisted development tools in your own work, understand where they help and where they bite, and can coach a team to adopt them without lowering the quality bar. \- Outstanding mentoring and communication skills. You can teach, persuade, and shift a team's habits without holding formal authority over anyone, and you can do it with client stakeholders as readily as with engineers. \- The seniority to walk into an unfamiliar team, quickly read where their quality really stands, and earn trust fast. **NICE TO HAVE** \- Experience in a consulting or client-facing setting, adapting to different teams, cultures, and codebases. \- Exposure to performance, security, accessibility, or contract testing. \- Familiarity with observability and what production telemetry tells you about quality. \- Contributions to the wider community: talks, writing, open source, or mentoring beyond your own team. ## Benefits **SOME OF THE DISTINCTIVE PERKS OF BECOMING A MINDER IN BRAZIL:** - Counseling and psychotherapy services - Free English lessons - Annual profit distribution, subject to company performance and board decision (only for CLT contracts) - Trainings and learning opportunities to grow within your role - Flexibility to choose where you work from - Parties, gatherings & trips **WHY MINDERA?** [](http://bit.ly/MinderaHandbook)We're thrilled to have the opportunity to share with you what it's like to be a part of the Mindera community. We're a group of friendly and talented individuals who work together to bring projects to life, in a fun, politics-free environment. Our culture is all about being adaptable and self-organized. We want Minders to take risks, make decisions, work together and feel free to be their most authentic selves, every single day. We work closely with our clients to truly understand their products and develop high-performance, resilient, and scalable software systems that make a real impact for their users and businesses, worldwide. We are proud of our work, we're always learning and growing in our Agile and collaborative environment, and we hope you'll love it here just as much as we do! Curious to know more? Check out our [Blog](http://mindera.com/blog) and our [Handbook](https://mindera.com/handbook.pdf)! 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