QA Lead

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<li>Drive and continuously improve QA processes, standards, and testing approaches across multiple teams.</li>
<li>Define and implement QA strategy, testing scope, quality standards, and risk assessment.</li>
<li>Participate in planning, requirements analysis, estimation, and release readiness.</li>
<li>Build and maintain testing documentation, including test strategies and quality standards.</li>
<li>Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and other stakeholders throughout the SDLC.</li>
<li>Lead distributed QA teams, mentor engineers, support their professional development, and conduct technical interviews.</li>
<li>Experience defining, collecting, and analyzing QA metrics to drive continuous improvement.</li>
<li>Collect and analyze quality metrics to identify improvement opportunities.</li>
<li>Participate in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.</li>
<li>Drive continuous improvements in engineering and QA practices across teams.</li>
<li>Support the integration of automation into the overall QA process and testing strategy.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><ul>
<li>3+ years of experience in a QA Lead or similar leadership role.</li>
<li>Proven experience improving QA processes and implementing quality standards.</li>
<li>Strong experience defining testing strategies across multiple teams and services.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of test design techniques and software testing methodologies.</li>
<li>Experience with functional, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing.</li>
<li>Solid experience with manual API testing using Postman, Swagger, or similar tools.</li>
<li>Experience analyzing database schemas and writing SQL queries to validate transactional data.</li>
<li>Understanding of event-driven architectures (Kafka, message queues) and API contract testing.</li>
<li>Experience with Jira, Confluence, and test management tools such as TestRail, Zephyr, or Xray.</li>
<li>Familiarity with logging and monitoring tools (Kibana, Grafana, ELK).</li>
<li>Experience integrating automation into QA processes.</li>
<li>Define automation testing approaches, levels, and tools, and drive their integration into QA processes.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban).</li>
<li>Experience leading distributed QA teams, mentoring engineers, and supporting their professional development.</li>
<li>Experience participating in production incident investigation and root cause analysis.</li>
<li>Strong analytical, communication, organizational, and leadership skills.</li>
<li>English level B2 or higher.</li>
</ul><h2>Nice to have:</h2><ul>
<li>Experience with gaming or transactional systems.</li>
<li>Experience with high-load distributed systems.</li>
<li>Experience building QA processes from scratch.</li>
<li>Experience with performance or load testing.</li>
<li>Background in test automation.</li>
</ul><h2>Benefits</h2><ul>
<li>20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly</li>
<li>Flexible start to the workday</li>
<li>Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist</li>
<li>Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events</li>
<li>Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities</li>
<li>Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support</li>
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