Lead QA Engineer

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