H-1B Visa Quality Engineering Lead Jobs
H-1B visa jobs for Quality Engineering Lead roles are concentrated at employers in aerospace, automotive, semiconductor, and software sectors, where degree-level engineering expertise drives specialty occupation eligibility. Sponsors file a Labor Condition Application with DOL and an I-129 with USCIS, granting H-1B status in three-year increments, extendable to six years total.
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NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone the No. 1 comprehensive academic medical center in the country for three years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently placed nine of its clinical specialties among the top five in the nation. NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across 6 inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and over 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. With $14.2 billion in revenue this year, the system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise with over $1 billion in active awards from the National Institutes of Health.
Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Quality Engineering Lead.
We are looking for a Quality Engineering Lead who will serve as a strong hands-on technical resource across enterprise projects. This role is focused on technical testing, automation, framework evaluation, AI in Quality, technical innovation, and stakeholder engagement. The role is intended for someone who can quickly understand the existing QA landscape, identify technical gaps and opportunities, and help the QA organization adopt better tools, frameworks, and engineering practices.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own QA delivery, quality outcomes, timelines, and release readiness for assigned enterprise projects.
- Define the technical testing strategy, approach, scope, priorities, and execution plan.
- Manage, guide, and oversee offshore QA resources throughout project delivery.
- Provide technical direction to offshore resources and ensure execution aligns with defined testing standards, automation strategy, quality expectations, and project objectives.
- Monitor offshore execution, identify risks and blockers, and drive issues to resolution.
- Remain technically hands-on and provide expertise in technical testing, automation, API, integration, backend, database, and end-to-end testing.
- Assess existing automation frameworks, architecture, tools, and technical challenges; identify opportunities to enhance or introduce new solutions, conduct POCs to validate technical approaches, and provide recommendations that improve the overall QA capability.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise to design, develop, enhance, and implement automation solutions and frameworks across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing, including complex enterprise applications, integrations, backend systems, databases, and distributed architectures.
- Support and drive QA delivery across enterprise-level technology transformation programs, modernization initiatives, and other complex enterprise programs.
- Define, build, and continuously evolve the organizations AI QA capabilities and AI Quality Engineering framework, establishing the strategy, technical architecture, standards, governance, use cases, and implementation approach for applying AI across the testing lifecycle.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise to develop, validate, and implement AI-enabled QA capabilities, including AI-assisted test design, test generation, automation, test data, defect analysis, regression optimization, quality insights, and other emerging AI testing applications.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve QA efficiency, automation, coverage, quality, and engineering practices.
- Work directly with business, technology, architecture, product, and program stakeholders.
- Strong performance testing / performance engineering expertise, including workload modeling, scripting, execution, monitoring, bottleneck analysis, and performance reporting.
- Communicate technical risks, findings, recommendations, and opportunities clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide technical guidance, thought leadership, and recommendations to the broader QA team.
- Stay current with modern automation, testing, AI, and quality engineering practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a 5 years experience in Software Quality Assurance. Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
NYU Langone Health provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.
At NYU Langone Health, we are committed to supporting our workforce and their loved ones with a comprehensive benefits and wellness package. Our offerings provide a robust support system for any stage of life, whether it's developing your career, starting a family, or saving for retirement. The support employees receive goes beyond a standard benefit offering, where employees have access to financial security benefits, a generous time-off program and employee resources groups for peer support. Additionally, all employees have access to our holistic employee wellness program, which focuses on seven key areas of well-being: physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care. The benefits and wellness package is designed to allow you to focus on what truly matters. Join us and experience the extensive resources and services designed to enhance your overall quality of life for you and your family.
NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration. We require applications to be completed online.
View Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal.
NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $121,792.21 - $158,997.67 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
INTRODUCTION
NYU Langone Health is a fully integrated health system that consistently achieves the best patient outcomes through a rigorous focus on quality that has resulted in some of the lowest mortality rates in the nation. Vizient Inc. has ranked NYU Langone the No. 1 comprehensive academic medical center in the country for three years in a row, and U.S. News & World Report recently placed nine of its clinical specialties among the top five in the nation. NYU Langone offers a comprehensive range of medical services with one high standard of care across 6 inpatient locations, its Perlmutter Cancer Center, and over 320 outpatient locations in the New York area and Florida. With $14.2 billion in revenue this year, the system also includes two tuition-free medical schools, in Manhattan and on Long Island, and a vast research enterprise with over $1 billion in active awards from the National Institutes of Health.
Position Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Quality Engineering Lead.
We are looking for a Quality Engineering Lead who will serve as a strong hands-on technical resource across enterprise projects. This role is focused on technical testing, automation, framework evaluation, AI in Quality, technical innovation, and stakeholder engagement. The role is intended for someone who can quickly understand the existing QA landscape, identify technical gaps and opportunities, and help the QA organization adopt better tools, frameworks, and engineering practices.
Job Responsibilities:
- Own QA delivery, quality outcomes, timelines, and release readiness for assigned enterprise projects.
- Define the technical testing strategy, approach, scope, priorities, and execution plan.
- Manage, guide, and oversee offshore QA resources throughout project delivery.
- Provide technical direction to offshore resources and ensure execution aligns with defined testing standards, automation strategy, quality expectations, and project objectives.
- Monitor offshore execution, identify risks and blockers, and drive issues to resolution.
- Remain technically hands-on and provide expertise in technical testing, automation, API, integration, backend, database, and end-to-end testing.
- Assess existing automation frameworks, architecture, tools, and technical challenges; identify opportunities to enhance or introduce new solutions, conduct POCs to validate technical approaches, and provide recommendations that improve the overall QA capability.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise to design, develop, enhance, and implement automation solutions and frameworks across UI, API, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing, including complex enterprise applications, integrations, backend systems, databases, and distributed architectures.
- Support and drive QA delivery across enterprise-level technology transformation programs, modernization initiatives, and other complex enterprise programs.
- Define, build, and continuously evolve the organizations AI QA capabilities and AI Quality Engineering framework, establishing the strategy, technical architecture, standards, governance, use cases, and implementation approach for applying AI across the testing lifecycle.
- Provide hands-on technical expertise to develop, validate, and implement AI-enabled QA capabilities, including AI-assisted test design, test generation, automation, test data, defect analysis, regression optimization, quality insights, and other emerging AI testing applications.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve QA efficiency, automation, coverage, quality, and engineering practices.
- Work directly with business, technology, architecture, product, and program stakeholders.
- Strong performance testing / performance engineering expertise, including workload modeling, scripting, execution, monitoring, bottleneck analysis, and performance reporting.
- Communicate technical risks, findings, recommendations, and opportunities clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Provide technical guidance, thought leadership, and recommendations to the broader QA team.
- Stay current with modern automation, testing, AI, and quality engineering practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
To qualify you must have a 5 years experience in Software Quality Assurance. Qualified candidates must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
NYU Langone Health provides its staff with far more than just a place to work. Rather, we are an institution you can be proud of, an institution where you'll feel good about devoting your time and your talents.
At NYU Langone Health, we are committed to supporting our workforce and their loved ones with a comprehensive benefits and wellness package. Our offerings provide a robust support system for any stage of life, whether it's developing your career, starting a family, or saving for retirement. The support employees receive goes beyond a standard benefit offering, where employees have access to financial security benefits, a generous time-off program and employee resources groups for peer support. Additionally, all employees have access to our holistic employee wellness program, which focuses on seven key areas of well-being: physical, mental, nutritional, sleep, social, financial, and preventive care. The benefits and wellness package is designed to allow you to focus on what truly matters. Join us and experience the extensive resources and services designed to enhance your overall quality of life for you and your family.
NYU Langone Health is an equal opportunity employer and committed to inclusion in all aspects of recruiting and employment. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply and will receive consideration. We require applications to be completed online.
View Know Your Rights: Workplace discrimination is illegal.
NYU Langone Health provides a salary range to comply with the New York state Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $121,792.21 - $158,997.67 Annually. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, specialty, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding H-1B Visa Sponsorship in Quality Engineering Lead
Map your credentials to SOC codes
Quality Engineering Lead roles most often map to SOC 17-2112 (Industrial Engineers) or 17-2199 (Engineers, All Other). Pull the O*NET profile for your target code and confirm your degree field aligns before applying, since USCIS uses that match to evaluate specialty occupation.
Verify prevailing wage before negotiating offers
Run your target title, SOC code, and worksite ZIP through the OFLC Wage Search to find the Level II or III prevailing wage. Your offered salary must meet or exceed the certified LCA wage, so knowing the floor before negotiations protects you from offers that cannot support a valid H-1B visa petition.
Target employers with active LCA filing history
Use Migrate Mate to identify employers with verified H-1B LCA filings for engineering and quality roles. Prioritizing companies already familiar with the LCA certification and I-129 process reduces the risk of delays caused by first-time sponsors unfamiliar with DOL and USCIS requirements.
Clarify multi-site work arrangements upfront
Quality Engineering Leads frequently travel to supplier or production facilities. Each worksite requires its own certified LCA posted at that location. Raise multi-site work expectations with HR before the offer stage so your employer files blanket or multiple LCAs covering every location you'll regularly work.
Document degree-to-role alignment in your application materials
USCIS scrutinizes whether a Quality Engineering Lead role genuinely requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, quality science, or a directly related field. Your resume and cover letter should explicitly connect your degree coursework to the technical duties listed in the job description, giving your sponsor stronger grounds for the specialty occupation argument.
File premium processing if your start date is firm
If you have an H-1B cap slot and a fixed project start date, ask your employer to file Form I-907 alongside the I-129 for premium processing. USCIS targets a 15-business-day adjudication window under premium processing, which matters when a production program or launch schedule depends on your availability.
H-1B Visa Quality Engineering Lead: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Quality Engineering Lead role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, Quality Engineering Lead roles typically qualify as a specialty occupation because the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in engineering, industrial engineering, materials science, or a closely related field to perform duties like root cause analysis, measurement system validation, and process capability studies. Your employer must document that the role's core responsibilities are degree-level in nature when filing the I-129 petition with USCIS.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring H-1B visas for quality engineering roles?
Search on Migrate Mate, which surfaces employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history by role type and location. Prioritize companies in automotive, aerospace, semiconductor fabrication, and contract manufacturing, since those sectors file LCAs for quality engineering titles most frequently. Employers already experienced with the LCA and I-129 process move faster and make fewer filing errors than first-time sponsors.
What happens to my H-1B status if my Quality Engineering Lead role moves to a different facility?
Your employer must file a new certified LCA for each worksite where you'll work, and in many cases must also file an amended I-129 petition with USCIS. This applies even for temporary assignments exceeding a few weeks at an unlisted location. Confirm with your employer's immigration counsel whether an amended petition is required before you relocate or begin work at any site not covered by your current LCA.
Can I switch employers while on H-1B sponsorship for a Quality Engineering Lead position?
Yes, H-1B portability under AC21 lets you start working for a new H-1B sponsor once they file a non-frivolous I-129 petition on your behalf, as long as your current petition has been approved and you've been in valid H-1B status for at least 180 days. Your new employer must still obtain a certified LCA for the new worksite before filing the transfer petition with USCIS.
How long does H-1B status last for a Quality Engineering Lead, and what are the extension options?
USCIS grants initial H-1B status for up to three years, with one extension available to reach a six-year maximum. After six years, you generally must leave and recharge unless you have an approved I-140 immigrant petition or a PERM labor certification that has been pending for at least 365 days, which can unlock one-year extensions beyond the six-year cap under AC21.