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. 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. 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. 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. 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