Quality Engineer Lead

At Zeelo, we’re on a mission to revolutionize how frontline workers commute by delivering reliable, sustainable, and scalable transportation solutions. We partner with global leaders like Amazon, Barclays, and UPS, and we’re expanding after a successful Series B raise. If you’re passionate about building solutions, working in a scaling organization, and seeing the direct impact of your work—this is your seat on the bus.

About the role:

We are looking for a Quality Engineering Lead / Test Platform Lead to join our engineering team and own the systems, frameworks, and tooling that make it possible for every engineer at Zeelo to ship safely and with confidence.

This is not a traditional QA gatekeeper role. You won't be the person who "owns quality" or approves releases. Quality at Zeelo is owned by the engineering teams. Your job will be to make that ownership practical - by building the test infrastructure, automation frameworks, AI-powered agents that make high-quality delivery the path of least resistance.

What you'll do:

You will design and maintain the test platform that underpins our engineering teams. You will build tools and frameworks that engineers across teams use daily with a focus on developer experience - not test suites that sit in isolation, or that require reading reams of documentation and complex environment configuration - but integrated systems that plug into CI/CD, surface failures efficiently, and make it easy to understand what went wrong and why.

This role requires strong technical ability, a platform-thinking mindset, and the drive to multiply the effectiveness of every engineer around you.

Some manual testing will be expected in order to support existing QA processes, learn how the product works and understand how our customers use it. These skills will facilitate the building of more effective automation, better test coverage strategies, and tooling that reflects real-world usage patterns.

Key responsibilities:

• Own and evolve Zeelo's test automation infrastructure - the shared frameworks, libraries, and tooling that engineering teams build on
• Design and maintain CI/CD integration for testing, ensuring automated tests run reliably and efficiently on pull request and deploy pipelines
• Build failure detection and triage systems that surface broken tests, flaky tests, and regressions with clear, actionable context
• Build and maintain AI-powered testing agents that accelerate test generation, improve coverage analysis, and augment developer workflows
• Create self-serve tooling and documentation that enables any engineer to write, run, and debug tests without specialist support
• Establish patterns and standards for test automation that teams adopt because they make life easier and don’t introduce friction
• Collaborate with engineering teams to identify quality gaps and build targeted solutions
• Track and communicate quality metrics, test health, and software reliability to engineering leadership
• Evaluate and introduce new testing tools, frameworks, and approaches as the platform and organisation scale and as the industry changes

Required skills and experience:

• Experience in a software quality engineering or SDET role with a strong focus on tooling and infrastructure over manual test execution
• Proficiency with TypeScript and experience building well-structured test frameworks and automation tooling that other engineers consume
• Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and integrating test automation into deployment pipelines
• Proficiency with Git for version control and collaborative engineering workflows
• Experience building or maintaining test infrastructure - test runners, reporting, flaky test detection, parallel execution, test environments, data seeding
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development tools and agents to accelerate test generation and quality workflows
• A platform mindset: you measure success by how effectively the team can ship with confidence, not by how many tests you write
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively in English (spoken and written)

Nice to have:

• Experience with containerisation and AWS for managing test environments
• Familiarity with message-driven or distributed systems and the testing challenges they present (race conditions, eventual consistency, message ordering)
• Experience with performance or load testing tools
• Knowledge of database querying (SQL) for test data management and validation
• Experience building internal developer tools or platforms
• Experience with Playwright and Maestro testing frameworks

Why Zeelo:

• Mission-driven work: Every commute we power helps reduce CO₂ emissions and makes work more accessible especially in areas with limited public transport
• Global exposure: Be part of a 120+ person team across the US, UK, and Spain
• Best-in-class tech: Our platform is redefining how organizations move their people