[Hiring] QA Lead @Arionkoder

Role Description

We are looking for a Quality Lead experienced in leading quality efforts - not only for their own testing output, but for the team achieving its quality objectives. This is a hands-on leadership role: you remain a practicing quality engineer, equally comfortable designing manual and exploratory test scenarios as writing and maintaining automated suites in CI, while also setting the quality direction, planning the work, and creating the conditions for others to do their best work.

The QA Lead is the primary quality reference. You define the quality strategy for the products in scope, make or facilitate the key quality decisions, keep visibility over what everyone is working on, surface risks and blockers early, and ensure no significant quality risk stays invisible.

You bring an AI-first mindset to the craft - using AI tools to accelerate test design, automation, triage, and reporting, with the judgment to know when to trust the output and when not to - and you push that way of working into the team. You also own quality for LLM-powered features (assistants, RAG, agents, etc.) where “pass/fail” is a judgment you have to operationalize through evals: curated datasets, graded criteria, baselines, and regression thresholds.

This is not a role for someone who waits for tickets to be marked "ready for QA", nor for someone who leads only from a spreadsheet. We need a lead who challenges unclear requirements, asks the uncomfortable questions early, coaches others to do the same, and treats production confidence as a team deliverable — measured in fewer surprises in production, faster releases, and a stronger quality culture across the teams you work with.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional Quality Engineering / QA experience in modern software products, with demonstrable depth in both manual and automation.
• 2+ years leading a QA effort or a team - owning the quality objective for a product or team.
• 5+ years designing test cases, test plans, and test strategies for non-trivial systems.
• 4+ years building and maintaining automated test suites in production-grade CI environments.
• Strong experience with at least one modern UI automation tool and at least one API testing approach.
• Working knowledge of test case management tools and bug tracking tools.
• CI/CD fluency: comfortable wiring automated tests into pipelines.
• Scripting/programming proficiency in at least one language.
• Solid understanding of software testing fundamentals.
• Strong release readiness mindset.
• Planning and estimation skills.
• Coaching and feedback abilities.
• Stakeholder communication skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Senior judgment: ability to operate autonomously.
• AI-first working style: hands-on, daily use of AI tools.

Requirements

• Be accountable for the team achieving its quality objectives.
• Maintain visibility into what each team member is working on.
• Identify blockers, risks, and deviations early.
• Plan and distribute quality work across the team.
• Ensure quality decisions are made at the right level.
• Create an environment where team members participate in decisions.
• Evaluate team members against the expectations of their role.
• Improve the team's quality practices, tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Establish and communicate a coherent quality vision.
• Define test strategies based on product risk, release goals, and business impact.
• Influence quality upstream by reviewing requirements and designs.
• Identify non-functional risks and ensure they are addressed.
• Define and maintain the team's quality standards.
• Run and lead structured exploratory sessions.
• Document findings clearly.
• Design and review test cases covering various scenarios.
• Build and maintain smoke tests, regression suites, and release checklists.
• Guide the automation approach and contribute to it hands-on.
• Own defect triage and prioritization across the team.
• Produce concise release quality reports.
• Own release validation and define quality gates.
• Use AI tools daily to accelerate various QA processes.

Benefits

• 💵 Monthly USD Service Fee
• 🌴 20 business days of paid Agreed Time Off—Annual + 6 Local Holidays
• 🐣 Caregiver Time Off
• 💻 A dynamic remote work culture. You can work from anywhere!
• 🚀 An entrepreneurial environment.

Company Description

In 2010, our founders dreamed up a company that could positively impact the world. Since then, we've been in permanent evolution: from business consulting to innovation and design, and now to building amazing digital products powered by AI. We scaled globally, launched AI Labs and Reshape Studios, and claimed our space as an AI consulting firm — helping organizations move from pilots to production through accountable AI. Today, we're expanding our impact across industries, driving real AI adoption through accountability, governance, and value at scale. Dreamers first, builders always.