Lead Platform Quality Engineer- First Dollar (Remote)

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Take the next step in your journey at Inspira Financial. You will help businesses and individuals thrive today, tomorrow, and into retirement. Become part of a company that is people centric and client obsessed in every interaction; a community of forward-thinking individuals focused on driving results to deliver our mission with an unwavering commitment to integrity. Join us as we strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey -- relentlessly pursuing better outcomes for all. We believe in finding the best talent! While some roles are based at one of our office locations, remote roles can sit in any of the following states: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MI, MN, MO, NC, NE, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA and WV. Remote status and role locations are subject to change. Relocation is not provided.
Employees within a 90-minute radius of our Oak Brook, IL headquarters are required to adhere to the company in-office work guidelines of 4 days per month minimum from 10 am to 2 pm (1 of the 4 days must be a Monday or Friday).
This requirement does not apply to support specialist positions.
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Inspira Financial provides health, wealth, retirement, and benefits solutions that strengthen and simplify the health and wealth journey. With more than 7 million clients, representing over $62 billion in assets, Inspira works with thousands of employers, plan sponsors, recordkeepers, TPAs, and other institutional partners -- helping the people they care about plan, save, and invest for a brighter future. Inspira relentlessly pursues better outcomes for all with our automatic rollover services, health savings accounts, emergency savings funds, custody services, and more. Learn more at inspirafinancial.com .
We have been recognized for our remarkable growth on lists such as Crain's Fast 50 and Inc. 5000, and for our outstanding workplace culture and benefits with Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work and Gallagher's 2022 Best-In-Class Employer awards.
Job Summary & Responsibilities
The Lead Platform Quality Engineer will report to the Sr. Director, Software Engineering in First Dollar. This role is responsible for defining and driving the organization's quality vision and leading software quality initiatives throughout the product lifecycle for both front-end and back-end system components. The Lead Platform Quality Engineer is driving and implementing test automation frameworks, processes, and strategies. As well as leading the adoption of industry-standard quality practices while fostering a culture of quality across the organization.
At First Dollar, we believe in empowering engineers to build a smarter health benefits platform - one where human expertise is amplified, not replaced, by AI tools. We seek engineers who have demonstrated experience using AI responsibly to accelerate their development workflow, improve code quality, and solve complex problems more efficiently.

• Define and drive quality metrics, quality gates, and acceptance criteria for projects to align with business objectives
• Establish and continuously improve quality standards, tooling, and processes across teams and projects
• Build and foster a strong quality culture across the organization, including skill gap analysis, career pathing, and targeted development for QE team members
• Share knowledge and mentor other team members, ensuring the QE team's skills evolve to meet business needs
• Work closely with Product, Engineering, and leadership teams to influence product decisions, challenge requirements, and ensure quality is considered throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Design test cases and execute all types of testing (e.g. functional, integration, end-to-end) on a variety of platforms (e.g. mobile, web)
• Facilitate User Acceptance Testing
• Drive automated testing initiatives across different layers of the application (frontend, backend, data, infrastructure)
• Contribute to various elements of automated testing across different layers of the application (frontend, backend, data)
• Produce test estimates for testing activities and ensure alignment with project goals
• Participate in code and test case reviews and ensure requirements traceability & proper coverage
• Assist project team in determining appropriate quality goals and acceptance criteria
• Demonstrated experience using AI responsibly to accelerate their development workflow, improve code quality, and solve complex problems more efficiently
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications
Education & Experience:

• 7-10 years of experience in Software QE with at least three years as a Test Lead or Manager. Experience should extend across both manual and automated testing in a variety of Agile delivery models
• 5+ years of professional coding experience in TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, or Java with hands-on coding expected for automation and tooling development
• 5+ years of UI Test automation experience (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Skills & Abilities:

• Experience defining and implementing quality metrics, quality gates, and organizational quality standards
• Diverse experiences in leading test strategy, test planning, test case design, and execution
• Delivery leadership within Agile methodology projects (e.g. Scrum)
• Proficiency using common test management tools
• Proven experience across manual and automated testing in a variety of Agile delivery models
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Technical Proficiency and Skills:

• Proficiency in:
  • E2E testing using modern tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium
  • API Testing and automation
  • js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Apollo GraphQL
  • Git Version Control System
  • PostgreSQL
  • Google Cloud
  • Jest
  • CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with one or more cloud platforms, preferably GCP
• Experience with cloud-native testing approaches
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills
• Great attention to detail and organizational skills
• Experience delivering quality for individual and institutional client facing solutions; Web Portal(s), online payments, and third-party integrations
• Good understanding of Agile/Scrum methodolog
• Practical AI experience - Comfortable using tools like GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or Claude for prototyping, debugging, and problem-solving
• Leverage AI as a tool, not a replacement - Candidates are expected to understand that AI is a power productivity multiplier while maintaining engineering judgment, and ensuring AI generated code meets quality standards

Other Requirements:

• Infrequent travel (10%)
• Ability to occasionally work after hours
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer

Compensation & Benefits
$140,000-$160,000 per year