Engineering Quality Lead – AI & Product Quality (Not a QA Manager/Lead)

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!