Full-Time

QA Automation Lead

Posted on 10/7/2025

Qu

Qu

51-200 employees

Unified commerce platform for enterprise restaurants

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
QA & Testing (2)
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Required Skills
JavaScript
Postman
Java
Docker
TypeScript
C#
AWS
Playwright
Google Cloud Platform
Requirements
  • 10+ years in QA with proven record of hands-on automation delivery.
  • At least 3 years in a QA lead/architect role, combining leadership with technical contributions.
  • Expertise in UI automation (Playwright, Cypress) and API testing (Postman, RestAssured, KarateDSL).
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (Java, JS/TS, or C#).
  • Strong experience in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Experience with containerized environments and cloud platforms (e.g., Docker, AWS, GCP).
  • Evidence of successfully introducing shift-left testing practices.
  • Track record of delivering visible results within the first 90 days of a new role.
Responsibilities
  • Define and deliver end-to-end automation initiatives, ensuring outcomes are visible within the first 90 days.
  • Personally contribute by writing automated test cases, building pipelines, and fixing flaky/broken tests.
  • Drive measurable increases in regression coverage, pipeline stability, and reporting accuracy.
  • Champion a shift-left approach: integrate automated checks into PR pipelines and CI/CD so testing happens earlier in development.
  • Partner with developers and product team to prioritize automation of business-critical and high-risk flows.
  • Track not just coverage, but product quality outcomes (e.g., fewer escaped defects, faster feedback cycles, reduced manual effort).
  • Build and maintain maintainable, scalable automation frameworks (UI + API).
  • Ensure CI/CD-ready pipelines are stable, efficient, and monitored continuously.
  • Introduce and enforce automation coding standards and best practices across teams.
  • Provide hands-on coaching by pairing with engineers on automation and test design.
  • Build trust with QA engineers and developers through delivery, not just oversight.
  • Hold teams accountable for quality while motivating them with clear direction and support.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering leads to make QA progress visible.
  • Communicate progress in terms of action plans, risks, and results — not just observations.
  • Ensure automation efforts are aligned with release schedules and business priorities.
  • Establish KPIs that measure both execution (new tests, stability, coverage) and quality outcomes (defects prevented, cycle time reduced).
  • Deliver automation dashboards and reports that clearly show value to the business.
  • Guarantee every sprint produces tangible QA deliverables tied to product quality.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience cleaning up large, fragile test suites and making them maintainable.
  • Strong communicator who frames problems as solutions and action plans.
  • Performance testing (JMeter, Gatling, K6) and observability tools experience is a plus.
  • Knowledge of microservices and event-driven systems.

A unified commerce platform for enterprise restaurant chains that merges digital and in-store orders, loyalty, and kitchen operations into one system. It uses a single menu management system across all channels, consolidates on-premise and off-premise orders, and normalizes data for reporting and analytics. It differentiates itself by serving large multi-channel restaurants with a single admin backend and bi-directional API integrations to third-party delivery providers. Its goal is to help enterprise restaurants run multi-channel guest experiences efficiently, streamline order flow and food production, and improve decision-making with centralized data.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$12.9M

Headquarters

Bethesda, Maryland

Founded

2012

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Roy Rogers deploys Qu across 38 locations, achieving 80% faster peak order processing.
  • OAKBERRY selects Qu for U.S. expansion to 250+ sites, cutting onboarding 75%.
  • Six years of 50%+ YoY growth fueled Deloitte Fast 500 ranking and C-suite hires from Twilio, NewStore.

What critics are saying

  • Toast steals enterprise clients with superior cloud scalability, eroding Qu's growth by November 2026.
  • Square undercuts pricing with zero hardware costs, forcing Roy Rogers switch by August 2026.
  • Fourtop integration delays double ICP churn to 25% among Golden Corral by August 2026.

What makes Qu unique

  • Qu's Intelligent Commerce Platform embeds edge AI directly in restaurants via Qube for real-time decisions.
  • QuFlex combines POS and self-service kiosks into one unit for QSR efficiency.
  • Qu unifies in-store, digital orders, and kitchen ops with single menu management across enterprise brands.

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Benefits

Remote Work Options

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-1%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

1%
Boland Hill Media, LLC
Feb 26th, 2026
Ziosk Partners with Gringo's Tex-Mex and Jimmy Changas; Qu POS Lands Roy Rogers Restaurants

Ziosk partners with Gringo's Tex-Mex and Jimmy Changas; Qu POS lands Roy Rogers Restaurants. Ziosk, the restaurant-technology platform for Dallas-based fintech Tabletop Media LLC, is working with restaurant chains Gringo's Tex-Mex and Jimmy Changas to provide its Drop & Pay payment technology across all locations. The two chains, which are part of Ybarra Franchising Group, have a combined 21 locations throughout Texas. Drop & Pay is a portable tablet-based payment solution that enables diners to review their check, make payment, and provide real-time feedback at the table. Since implementing Drop & Pay, Gringo's and Jimmy Changas have seen a 96% pay-at-the-table rate, a 23% increase in loyalty participation, and 45% guest survey engagement. In addition, both chains say Drop & Pay has enabled them to gather real-time insights that help refine service, improve satisfaction, and drive repeat visits. In addition to payments, Ziosk's core product suite enables ordering, loyalty, guest engagement, guest feedback, and advanced data collection and analysis. The Ziosk platform processes more than $17 billion in transactions and engages more than 1 billion guests per year, the company says. "Originally, we thought Ziosk was only a tabletop platform, but this handheld payment solution is tailored perfectly to significantly improve service efficiency while catering to our guests' needs," Heather McKeon, chief operating officer for Gringo's Tex-Mex, says in a statement. "With Drop & Pay, our guests can pay at their convenience, sign in for their loyalty and rewards, and leave us direct feedback. The results have been positive, and we've seen high adoption by team members and guests very quickly." In related news, Roy Rogers Restaurants, which operates 38 locations nationwide, is partnering with Qu POS Inc. to upgrade its ordering and kitchen systems across all locations. Roy Rogers will implement Qu's platform to serve as its core ordering and fulfillment systems. In addition, the restaurant chain will implement Qu Notify for operational communications and Qu Flex for in-store kiosks. Qu's platform allows restaurants to process payments and transactions, manage kitchen workflows during network disruptions, and give corporate teams centralized control over menus, pricing, and configurations across company-owned and franchised locations. Roy Rogers is expected to deliver 80% faster order-processing times, especially during peak periods, Qu says.

PR Newswire
Feb 5th, 2026
Qu adds CRO and CFO to leadership as growth hits 50% yearly for six consecutive years

Qu, a restaurant unified commerce platform, has appointed Steve Melamed as chief revenue officer and Joel Abdinoor as chief financial officer. The hires strengthen the company's leadership as it enters its next growth phase following six consecutive years of over 50% year-over-year growth. Melamed brings over 20 years of experience from companies including DoubleClick, Responsys and Twilio, where he helped scale annual recurring revenue from $280 million to over $400 million. He will oversee sales, partnerships and go-to-market strategy. Abdinoor has more than 20 years in finance and operations, most recently serving as CFO at NewStore. He previously held senior roles at DataXu and AVG Technologies. At Qu, he will manage finance, legal and human resources whilst supporting scalable growth.

RestaurantNews.com
Jan 15th, 2026
Global Açai Brand OAKBERRY Taps Qu's Unified Commerce Platform to Anchor U.S. Expansion

Global açai brand OAKBERRY taps Qu's unified commerce platform to anchor U.S. Expansion. Qu's POS, kiosks, kitchen displays, and edge computing bring operational simplicity, resilience, and scalability to the açaí chain's growing U.S. footprint Arlington, VA (RestaurantNews.com) Qu, the pioneer of the restaurant industry's first unified commerce platform, today announced that OAKBERRY, a global leader in premium açaí and smoothies, has selected Qu to support the brand's U.S. rollout. "Our growth ambitions in the U.S. require a platform that can scale with speed and accuracy while keeping operations consistent across every location," said Tatiana Favery, Head of U.S. & Canada at OAKBERRY. "Qu's open API provides the flexibility to integrate the tools and partners we already rely on, while delivering enterprise-level resilience." From the guest experience to kitchen operations, Qu's platform equips OAKBERRY with: * POS + Notify: Provides managers with real-time performance insights, custom alerts, and mobile reporting, allowing franchisees to monitor KPIs and make decisions from anywhere. * Kiosks: A hybrid setup of standalone and Qu Flex units gives guests control over their orders while easing staff pressure during peak hours. Other Qu customers report kiosks paired with cross-sell tools average up to 22% higher check sizes than counter service. * Kitchen Display System (KDS): Standardizes kitchen workflows, reduces errors, and protects margins through improved order accuracy and prep times. * Qu Business Edge(TM): The industry's first AI-enabled edge computing platform for restaurants, delivering 99.99% uptime and ultra-fast order processing - even during internet or cloud outages. Nicknamed Qube(TM), it can support future-ready capabilities like predictive kitchen prep and real-time energy and equipment monitoring at the device level. * Restaurant-first ecosystem: Qu is built to support a best-of-breed technology stack, enabling OAKBERRY to integrate leading platforms for digital ordering, loyalty, and labor while keeping core operations unified and stable as the brand grows. By deploying Qu, OAKBERRY is already achieving measurable gains, including: * An easy-to-learn, gesture-driven POS that speeds employee onboarding by up to 75% * Improved order accuracy and faster service across digital and in-store channels * Operational continuity with Qube's local processing * Centralized control for multi-unit operations across the U.S. "OAKBERRY has more than 900 locations globally and is expanding quickly in the U.S.," said Sean Brennan, director of sales at Qu. "Qu gives high-growth brands a single operational workflow that supports scale and drives measurable revenue lift." OAKBERRY's deployment of Qu comes as part of a broader expansion strategy. In 2024, OAKBERRY raised $67 million in Series C Funding, noting a focus on growth in the U.S. The brand currently operates more than 50 locations and has a development pipeline of more than 250 planned locations nationwide. About OAKBERRY OAKBERRY is the superfood brand that is delicious, fun to eat, and accessible to everyone. Since its start in Brazil in 2016, OAKBERRY has reimagined the quick-service restaurant model by unleashing the power of açaí and other superfoods as a modern indulgence. OAKBERRY's refreshing menu of açaí bowls and smoothies are served up in its signature layers, with customizable, unlimited toppings. OAKBERRY's açaí is responsibly-sourced from Brazil's Amazon Rainforest and is an abundant source of energy, rich in antioxidants and is certified organic with no high fructose corn syrup or artificial colors added. A fast-growing brand with over 900 locations across 45 countries, OAKBERRY'S fully verticalized business model provides flexibility and operational efficiencies. Qu is the unified commerce platform helping quick-service and fast-casual restaurants boost efficiency and grow revenue. Purpose-built from the ground up with smart cloud technology, Qu puts real-time intelligence where it's needed most - right in the restaurant - through its proprietary Business Edge, Qube(TM). The result: streamlined operations, stronger margins, and memorable guest experiences. On a mission to propel restaurants beyond today's limitations, Qu is a long-term technology partner trusted to deliver solutions that are as reliable as they are revolutionary, and intuitive as they are impactful. Based in Arlington, Virginia, Qu is backed by leading restaurant entrepreneurs and investors, including Cota Capital, Enlightened Hospitality Investments, Bobby Cox Companies, and NRD Capital. Serve smarter with Qu. Learn more at QuBeyond.com and linkedin.com/company/qupos.

PR Newswire
May 30th, 2025
Qu Named Only "Excellent" Pos In Doordash'S New Preferred Integrations Program

Highest-rated partner recognized for unmatched reliability and order orchestrationARLINGTON, Va., May 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Qu , the leader in unified commerce for enterprise restaurants, has been named as the only point-of-sale (POS) platform to earn the highest possible rating of "Excellent" in the new DoorDash Preferred Integrations Program, launched last week.As delivery continues to play a larger role in the restaurant landscape, this program evaluates technology partners based on real-world system performance, error rates and integration depth. Qu emerged as the only POS to achieve exceptional scores across the board, delivering a 99.8% order success rate — more than 3x better than the industry average — with no need for middleware or manual workarounds. For restaurants, that means fewer headaches and more fulfilled orders, ultimately improving profitability through more sales and revenue growth.Unlike some unified commerce or traditional POS platforms, Qu injects orders directly from third-party marketplaces into the POS and KDS, enabling a seamless, automated order flow with significantly lower failure rates, real-time updates, centralized control and dynamic pricing across all delivery platforms. More importantly, merchants can update menus and pricing for all order channels from Qu's unified menu management platform and gain full visibility into performance, without the integration chaos."For too long, restaurant operators have had to sacrifice either speed or stability. We built Qu on the belief that they shouldn't have to choose," said Amir Hudda, CEO of Qu. "This recognition from DoorDash validates our mission to simplify the complex and bring harmony to restaurant operations

Boland Hill Media, LLC
Apr 16th, 2025
CPI's Digital Wallet Push and other Digital Transactions News briefs from 4/16/25

Restaurant technology provider Qu Inc. said it acquired Fourtop, a restaurant insights platform.

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