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Quality Engineering Lead roles qualify as H-1B visa specialty occupations when the position requires a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field. Employers file a Labor Condition Application before sponsoring, and the annual H-1B cap and lottery apply unless the hiring company is cap-exempt.
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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 Quality Engineering Lead Jobs
Align your credentials to specialty occupation standards
Your degree must directly relate to quality engineering, not just engineering broadly. A computer science or industrial engineering degree paired with QA-specific roles in your work history strengthens the specialty occupation argument your employer makes in the LCA.
Use O*NET to frame your role accurately
O*NET profiles quality engineering roles under industrial and manufacturing engineering. Pull the task list that matches your actual responsibilities before interviews so your job description aligns with what USCIS expects for a specialty occupation petition.
Target employers with cap-exempt filing history
Universities, nonprofit research institutions, and government-affiliated entities are cap-exempt, letting employers file H-1B petitions outside the annual lottery. Quality engineering roles exist in medical devices and defense research at institutions that meet this threshold.
Find verified sponsoring employers on Migrate Mate
Migrate Mate lists employers with confirmed LCA filing history for quality engineering roles, searchable by location. Use it to identify companies that have sponsored this job title before rather than guessing from general job postings.
Verify prevailing wage tier before accepting an offer
Run your offered title and location through the OFLC Wage Search to confirm which of the four wage levels applies to your role. Employers must certify the offered wage meets or exceeds the prevailing wage in the LCA, so a mismatch can stall or invalidate the filing.
Clarify PERM timing if you need green card sponsorship
Some Quality Engineering Lead positions qualify for EB-2 sponsorship if the role requires an advanced degree. Ask during offer negotiations whether the employer will initiate PERM labor certification, since backlogs for India-born applicants make early filing critical.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Quality Engineering Lead role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes, as long as the position requires at least a bachelor's degree in a directly related field such as industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, or computer science. Generic titles like 'lead' don't disqualify it. What matters is whether the job duties require that specific theoretical and practical knowledge, which USCIS evaluates at the petition stage.
Which visa types realistically cover Quality Engineering Lead sponsorship?
H-1B is the most common path and covers up to six years of status, subject to the annual cap and lottery. Australian citizens can apply for the E-3 visa, which has a separate cap and no lottery. Canadian and Mexican nationals may qualify under TN visa if the role maps cleanly to an engineering profession on the USMCA list. For senior roles requiring exceptional recognition, O-1A is also possible.
What degree does an employer need to see for H-1B sponsorship in this role?
USCIS requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a field directly related to quality engineering. Degrees in industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, computer science, or systems engineering typically satisfy this. A general business or unrelated science degree usually won't, even with years of QA experience, unless the employer can document an established industry requirement for that specific field.
How do I find Quality Engineering Lead jobs where employers are already willing to sponsor?
Migrate Mate shows employers with verified LCA sponsorship history for quality engineering roles, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already committed to this process rather than approaching employers cold.
Can a Quality Engineering Lead role support a green card application, and how long does it take?
Yes. Most employers sponsor through the EB-3 skilled worker or EB-2 categories depending on degree requirements. Both require PERM labor certification from DOL before USCIS can adjudicate the immigrant petition. Applicants born in India or China face significant priority date backlogs, making early employer commitment to PERM filing a meaningful factor when evaluating job offers.
What is the prevailing wage requirement for sponsored Quality Engineering Lead jobs?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.