Software Quality Architect

About Coalesce

Coalesce is on a mission to make the modern data stack effortless for everyone. Our platform powers data modeling, transformation, and governance for some of the world's most important analytics teams. Customers rely on Coalesce as the core platform for running their data operations, powering everything from day-to-day BI to regulatory reporting and machine learning pipelines.

About the Role

We’re looking for a software quality architect to drive the long-term quality strategy at Coalesce. This is a strategic IC role with high impact and visibility across engineering. You’ll set testing direction, understand and measure testing coverage, prioritize automation initiatives, and scale our QA function. While technical fluency is important, this role is ultimately tasked to ensure that the Coalesce engineering organization continues to deliver with high quality.

You’ll partner closely with developers, DevEx, Infrastructure, Product, and Customer Support to shape how we test our product on data warehouse platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, etc. and in all of our product’s enterprise configurations—ensuring our QA efforts surface software quality concerns as product complexity grows.

What You’ll Do

• Own the QA roadmap: set vision, priorities, and success metrics for test automation

• Design and evolve a long-term automation strategy that aligns with evolving product functionality and realistic customer usage

• Define and track quality KPIs (e.g., automated coverage, flake rate, PR feedback time)

• Build and champion a robust test pyramid (unit, integration, infra) across teams

• Lead realistic testing efforts around dogfooding, performance, and scale

• Build best practices and processes for understanding release quality in production

• Lead and mentor QA engineers, while influencing engineering teams to write more meaningful, maintainable tests

• Provide technical guidance to QA contributors and coach engineers on writing better tests

• Collaborate with DevEx on CI feedback times, test sharding, and flake detection

• Evaluate and roll out new automation frameworks and AI-driven testing tools

• Act as the go-to person for software quality strategy, tooling, and automation best practices

• Advocate for quality as a shared responsibility across engineering

Who You Are

• 7+ years of experience in QA engineering or software engineering with a passion for quality and automation, including 2+ years as a software quality leader

• Deep understanding of automated testing methodologies and tools, including unit, integration, UI, and performance testing

• Deep knowledge of testing frameworks (Jest, Vitest, Playwright) and experience building custom testing harnesses and libraries

• Strong technical fluency with modern programming languages (TypeScript, Python, Java, etc.).

• Experience with production observability and telemetry - OTEL, DataDog, Cloud Logging

• Experience building and scaling QA programs in fast-paced enterprise SaaS environments

• Adept at using metrics to drive decisions and measure impact

• Computer Science or related degree preferred

Bonus Points

• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure)

• Familiarity with enterprise SaaS features: RBAC, PrivateLink, Audit Logging, SSO, SCIM, SAML, OAuth, REST APIs

• Experience or interest in working with SQL data warehouse platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, Fabric, Redshift, BigQuery)

• Experience working with mission critical high availability SaaS services

• Experience with software products that involve performance and scale

Since founding Coalesce in 2020, our mission has remained the same: to improve the lives of data professionals by helping them transform data as efficiently as possible. We aim to bring an end to the days of arduous manual coding and inflexible GUIs by providing a best of both worlds solution.

Coalesce is a fully remote and culture-first company. We believe that our culture is what allows us to not only recruit world-class talent, but also retain it. At Coalesce, you can expect to experience radical honesty, trust in the workplace empathy for yourself and others, and support for continuous learning and improvement.

US Benefits: Coalesce offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: Medical insurance; Dental insurance; Vision insurance; Life, AD&D, and Disability Insurance; Unlimited Paid Time off, Paid Sick Time, Equity, Internet Reimbursement, WFH Office Set-Up Reimbursement, 401(k) retirement plan, and Company Annual Leave between December 26- January 2.

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