QA Lead

• Drive and continuously improve QA processes, standards, and testing approaches across multiple teams.
• Define and implement QA strategy, testing scope, quality standards, and risk assessment.
• Participate in planning, requirements analysis, estimation, and release readiness.
• Build and maintain testing documentation, including test strategies and quality standards.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
• Lead distributed QA teams, mentor engineers, support their professional development, and conduct technical interviews.
• Experience defining, collecting, and analyzing QA metrics to drive continuous improvement.
• Collect and analyze quality metrics to identify improvement opportunities.
• Participate in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.
• Drive continuous improvements in engineering and QA practices across teams.
• Support the integration of automation into the overall QA process and testing strategy.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in a QA Lead or similar leadership role.
• Proven experience improving QA processes and implementing quality standards.
• Strong experience defining testing strategies across multiple teams and services.
• Strong knowledge of test design techniques and software testing methodologies.
• Experience with functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing.
• Solid experience with manual API testing using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools.
• Experience analyzing database schemas and writing SQL queries to validate transactional data.
• Understanding of event-driven architectures (Kafka, message queues) and API contract testing.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, and test management tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray.
• Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, ELK).
• Experience integrating automation into QA processes.
• Define automation testing approaches, levels, and tools, and drive their integration into QA processes.
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).
• Experience leading distributed QA teams, mentoring engineers, and supporting their professional development.
• Experience participating in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.
• Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and leadership skills.
• English level B2 or higher.

Nice to have:

• Experience with gaming or transactional systems.
• Experience with high-load distributed systems.
• Experience building QA processes from scratch.
• Experience with performance or load testing.
• Background in test automation.

Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
• Flexible start to the workday
• Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
• Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
• Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
• Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support

Originally posted on Himalayas