Lead QA Engineer
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Job Description
Job Description
We are looking for an experienced hands-on QA Lead to guide quality assurance across several Scrum teams. This is a hybrid role: you will mentor QA engineers shape QA strategy and stay hands-on with testing to keep our releases stable and our codebase healthy.
What Youll Do
- Lead & Mentor: Support QA engineers across Scrum teams with onboarding coaching and growth. Occasionally participate in hiring.
- QA Strategy: Define and drive a clear QA plan that improves product quality and influences key DORA metrics. Promote early testing and best practices in a trunk-based CI/CD environment.
- Hands-On Testing: Stay close to the product by spending 50% of your time on functional regression exploratory and smoke testing. Lead by example.
- Release Readiness: Oversee QA during release cyclesset criteria assess risk and ensure smooth deployments without gatekeeping.
- Collaboration: Work with developers product managers and the automation team to plan and test features effectively.
How We Work
- Frequent small releases in a trunk-based CI/CD setup.
- Automation handled by a dedicated team you guide priorities review coverage and contribute where needed.
- Focus on outcomes over ceremony: we value clarity speed and quality.
Qualifications :
Must-Haves
- 5 years in software QA with proven team leadership or management experience.
- Strong people management skills: coaching feedback and team development.
- Expertise in API & integration testing.
- Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum and experience with CI/CD and trunk-based development.
- Familiarity with tools like Jira Git and a test reporting/management platform (e.g. Allure TestOps).
- Fluent Russian and good English (B2).
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with test automation (e.g. Playwright).
- Background in accounting or fintech.
- Familiarity with AI tools.
- Performance/load testing experience (e.g. k6 JMeter).
- Knowledge of observability tools like ELK Stack Sentry or Grafana.
Additional Information :
What we offer:
- Growing international business with 10000 subscribers
- Regular performance-based compensation reviews
- 100% paid 20 business vacation days
- 100% paid 10 sick leave days
- Remote work flexible hours
- Health & Wellness program - a bonus payment which will cover 50% up to a total of 500 Euro annually of the amount spent on the following activities: medical services (except regular health insurance) fitness sports activities (excluding sports equipment) stress management body massage weight management yoga traveling etc.
- Reimbursement of co-working space
- Reimbursement of professional development courses
Remote Work :
Yes
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Remote
Company Industry
Department / Functional Area
Engineering
Key Skills
- Change Management
- Corporate Communications
- Apache Commons
- Compensation
- Civil Quality Control
