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QA Engineering Lead, Product Quality Assurance

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Compensation
$163–224K/yr
Location
Menlo Park, CA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

Meta seeks an experienced Quality Engineering Lead to shape product quality strategy across core and business products serving billions of people. The role sets technical direction, leads complex cross-functional programs, and partners with engineering, infrastructure, product, and specialized teams to improve reliability and quality at scale. It also involves influencing senior stakeholders and mentoring quality and test engineers across organizations and geographies.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Quality StrategyCross-Functional Program LeadershipTest StrategyQuality Test AutomationQA ProcessesTest PlanningTest DesignTest ExecutionPerformance TestingStress TestingMobile TestingWeb TestingPythonPHPJavaC/C++Global Team CollaborationOrganization-Wide Quality InitiativesProject PrioritizationPrompt EngineeringAgent OrchestrationData-Driven Quality ImprovementAI Workflow IntegrationStakeholder CommunicationResponsible AI PracticesTest Automation ToolsTest Automation Frameworks

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or Related Field or Equivalent Experience10+ Years Quality or Test Engineering Experience

Full job description

Summary:

Meta is seeking an experienced Quality Engineering Lead to shape the quality strategy for our core and business products (Instagram, Facebook, Meta AI, WhatsApp, Ads, Privacy). In this role, you will set the vision for product quality across engineering organizations and drive it through complex, ambiguous programs that span multiple teams and geographic locations, for products that serve billions of people worldwide. You will operate as a force multiplier, partnering with engineering, infrastructure, and product leaders to raise the bar on quality at Meta's scale, and influencing senior stakeholders across regions on high-impact decisions. If you enjoy solving quality challenges on products built with cutting-edge technology, we'd like to hear from you.

Required Skills:

QA Engineering Lead, Product Quality Assurance Responsibilities:

  1. Define and own the multi-year product quality strategy across one or more product organizations, influencing direction beyond your immediate team

  2. Lead complex, cross-functional quality programs that span multiple products and geographic locations, driving alignment across time zones, partners, and priorities

  3. Set the technical direction for the test strategy on business-critical, high-ambiguity initiatives to ensure product correctness and reliability before launch

  4. Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to drive scalable automation strategies that prevent regressions and ensure long-term product reliability

  5. Identify systemic quality gaps and opportunities, and drive organization-wide adoption of processes, tooling, and a quality-driven engineering culture

  6. Establish quality metrics and standards that measure test effectiveness, efficiency, and overall product quality

  7. Assess non-functional product quality (including i18n, l10n, a11y, performance, and stress) in partnership with specialized teams and translate findings into directions for product teams

  8. Mentor and grow quality and test engineers, raising the bar on quality practices across the organization

  9. Engage and influence stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership across geographies, to secure buy-in on critical quality decisions

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

  2. 10+ years of quality engineering and/or test engineering experience

  3. Experience leading quality strategies and complex programs across multiple teams and geographic locations, including distributed onsite and offshore teams

  4. Experience with QA processes and methodologies, including planning, designing, and executing tests, and knowledge of performance and stress testing

  5. Experience in implementing and maintaining quality test automation for both mobile and web applications

  6. Experience coding in Python, PHP, Java, C/C++, or an equivalent programming language

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Experience working across multiple cross-functional engineering teams globally, spanning time zones and cultures

  2. Experience driving organization-wide quality initiatives and influencing engineering organizations at a large scale

  3. Experience defining scope, setting priorities, and driving progress on projects with incomplete or evolving requirements

  4. Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development (e.g., prompt/context engineering, agent orchestration) and staying current with emerging AI technologies

  5. Experience leveraging data to improve product quality and drive measurable outcomes

  6. Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize/redesign workflows and drive measurable impact (e.g., efficiency gains, quality improvements)

  7. Experience communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization, including executive communications

  8. Experience adhering to and implementing responsible, ethical AI practices (e.g., risk assessment, bias mitigation, quality and accuracy reviews)

  9. Experience with industry-standard test automation tools and frameworks

Public Compensation:

$163,000/year to $224,000/year + bonus + equity + benefits

Industry: Internet

Equal Opportunity:

Meta is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Meta participates in the E-Verify program in certain locations, as required by law. Please note that Meta may leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies in connection with applications for employment.

Meta is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please let us know at [email protected].

How this job compares

Set against the 1,115 open Quality Engineering jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$163–224K/yr
  • California median$129–195K/yr123 salary ranges
  • US median$116–184K/yr659 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $194K, is 19% above the California median midpoint ($163K) — in the middle half of Quality Engineering salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 192 open Quality Engineering jobs in California and 1,115 across the US. 7% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Quality Engineering postings that state a minimum ask for 7 years at the median (844 postings).
Education
456 of the 1,115 open Quality Engineering jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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