Engineering Quality Lead – AI & Product Quality (Not a QA Manager/Lead)
Pulsora · India
Founded in 2021, Pulsora the “Enterprise Sustainability Platform”, is a well-funded Silicon Valley software startup. It is dedicated to empowering purpose-driven enterprises to manage and improve their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and overall sustainability footprint with an integrated, comprehensive, flexible, and innovative technology platform built for compliance, tracking, and insight. We are well funded, have amazing customers across industries and geographies, established strategic partnerships with leading ERP and consulting firms, and are growing fast!
Role Overview
The Engineering Quality Lead is a hands-on software engineering leader responsible for improving product quality across the entire software development lifecycle. This role combines software development leadership, AI-assisted engineering, automation, and quality strategy to reduce production defects, improve engineering practices, and build a culture where quality is engineered into every release.
Unlike a traditional QA Lead or QA Manager, this role focuses on preventing defects before they reach customers by combining software engineering expertise, AI-assisted development, intelligent automation, and engineering leadership.
What You'll Do
AI-Driven Engineering Quality
Analyze Jira issues, incidents, support tickets, and production defects
Use AI to trace issues to root causes in the codebase
Review pull requests and production code using AI
Identify recurring defect patterns
Build defect taxonomies
Recommend architectural improvements
Identify technical debt
Improve engineering practices
Build engineering quality dashboards
Create AI workflows that improve engineering effectiveness
AI-Powered Test Automation
Generate Playwright tests using AI
Review AI-generated tests
Improve automation quality
Generate API tests
Generate integration tests
Generate regression tests
Generate edge-case tests
Analyze production incidents and automatically generate regression tests
Integrate automation into CI/CD
Improve automation coverage across engineering teams
Engineering Leadership
Lead engineering teams to build quality into every release
Coach developers on engineering best practices
Coach QA engineers on AI-assisted automation
Drive engineering accountability
Conduct root cause reviews
Challenge poor engineering practices
Improve release readiness
Define engineering standards
Improve engineering quality metrics
Drive measurable reductions in production defects
Product Quality Improvement
Analyze escaped defects
Identify recurring engineering issues
Define corrective actions
Define preventive actions
Improve engineering processes
Improve code review quality
Improve release quality
Reduce customer-reported defects
Improve engineering productivity using AI
What You'll Bring
8+ years of professional software engineering experience
4+ years of hands-on software development (coding) experience
Experience leading software engineering teams that include both software developers and QA engineers
Demonstrated success using AI (Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.) to improve engineering practices and product quality
Experience managing both software developers and QA engineers
Experience using AI and Playwright to create, review, and maintain automated tests
Experience analyzing production defects, identifying root causes, and implementing preventive engineering improvements
Strong Java and/or Python development experience
Strong understanding of software architecture
Strong understanding of CI/CD
Strong debugging skills
Strong root cause analysis skills
Experience improving engineering quality
Willingness and ability to work core India business hours, plus collaborate with global teams
Why Pulsora
This is an opportunity to shape the quality culture of a rapidly growing AI-powered enterprise software company. The Engineering Quality Lead will influence engineering standards, establish quality systems, and help Pulsora scale with confidence and reliability.
Why work at Pulsora?
We believe that progress happens by bringing together people from all walks of life who have the drive and the influence to improve our world now and for the next generations!
Ideally have industry and market knowledge of ESG and sustainability
The company will pay with salary, equity, and benefits
You’ll get to work on problems that are hard and important
You get to work on a solution that helps the planet and helps us all
You’ll be joining an extraordinary team at the beginning of an extraordinary journey
Hybrid-friendly work environment, in office 2-3 times per week (for those in New York, San Francisco Bay Area, and Munich)
Pulsora Core Values
Compassionate candor
Transparency
Embrace diversity and cultivate belonging
Make a positive impact
Delight customers
Join us and become a driver for positive change!