[Hiring] Head of QA @Smartcat

Role Description

As a Head of QA at Smartcat, your mission is to be a company-wide centre of QA excellence, elevating our product quality to match that of top-tier tech companies. You will innovate testing strategies, enhance cross-department collaboration, and lead the QA team towards excellence, ensuring Smartcat exceeds customer expectations in reliability and user experience.

Outcomes

• Build a quality management system to reduce the number of production bugs by 50%.
• Collaborate with Engineering Directors to create an effective automated testing process, including end-to-end, unit, and API tests.
• Develop a testing process with developers’ involvement to integrate testing into the development process.
• Define quality metrics and test strategies to develop testing procedures.
• Continuously implement AI-based QA approach.

Qualifications

• Have at least 10+ years of experience as a QA engineer, with 5+ years as QA lead of 5+ people.
• Established testing processes and supported them.
• Know and value standards of quality, software testing methodologies, and test design techniques.
• Have 5+ years of practical experience in test process automation with REST API and UI on any high-level programming language (C# is preferable).
• Know why and how to bring testing outside the boundaries of the QA team.
• Have experience with Selenium Webdriver, Git, and Allure. Knowledge of Docker and DevOps practices will be a considerable advantage.
• Ready to work in a dynamic atmosphere of a startup and bring something new to the table.
• Have no fear in making decisions and can provide results in set time frames.

Requirements

• Experience in hiring team members.
• Capability to motivate, teach, and help team members reach personal goals.
• Practical experience in integrating automating testing processes.

Benefits

• Fully remote team.
• Global team of 180+ enthusiastic people spread across 30 countries.
• Innovating the $50 billion language translation industry.
• High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations.
• Opportunity to transition from a post-Series B startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation.

Company Description

Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises. Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves.

• Founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content.
• Trusted by more than 1,000 global companies including 25% of the Fortune 500.
• Backed by leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces, and AI.
• Growing at 150% YoY, providing a unique combination of a hyper-growth environment with downside protection.