QA Team Lead – Cyber & AI

Location: Tel-Aviv, Israel

Company

hirify.global is a sovereign AI and national cyber-defense company building fully sovereign security solutions for governments, including AI-native resilience against advanced persistent threats across posture, cyber threat intelligence, and detection and response.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of approximately five QA engineers through feedback, coaching, and professional development.
• Own QA planning and delivery across multiple features, balancing capacity, release timelines, product risks, dependencies, and delivery priorities.
• Drive testing end to end, including requirements clarification, scope definition, environment and dataset planning, execution tracking, defect triage, and release-readiness communication.
• Define and review test strategies and plans covering functional, exploratory, regression, integration, end-to-end, and API scenarios.
• Remain hands-on with complex testing and technical investigations using APIs, logs, and system behavior to isolate failures and support root-cause analysis.
• Establish AI-assisted QA workflows, prioritize automation coverage, improve testing standards and documentation, and support production issue investigations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of software quality assurance experience, including at least 3 years of direct team management.
• Strong hands-on experience with manual and exploratory testing of complex web applications, REST APIs, client-server systems, and distributed applications.
• Experience leading testing from planning through release across multiple stakeholders, including priority, dependency, and delivery management.
• Experience mentoring QA engineers, reviewing their work, providing actionable feedback, and developing their technical capabilities.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies, risk-based testing, and the software development lifecycle.
• Strong API testing experience with Postman, Swagger/OpenAPI, or similar tools, plus understanding of HTTP/HTTPS and networking concepts.
• Experience troubleshooting in Linux and Kubernetes environments, including inspecting pods, collecting logs, and investigating system behavior.
• Familiarity with CI/CD workflows and tools such as Jenkins, as well as test management and issue-tracking tools.
• Practical experience using AI tools in QA workflows, with the ability to critically evaluate outputs and guide team adoption.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, collaboration, and ownership skills, including the ability to turn ambiguous requirements into actionable testing plans and drive work across teams.
• Ability to balance thorough testing with delivery needs in a fast-paced Agile environment.

Nice to have

• Experience with cybersecurity, networking, or security-related products.
• Experience with scripting or test automation using Python, TypeScript, Playwright, or similar tools.
• Experience with SQL or other database-querying tools for data validation and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with AWS or Azure and observability tools such as Grafana, Kibana, or Datadog.
• Experience testing performance, scalability, and reliability in distributed systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on sovereign AI and national cyber-defense products for governments.
• Collaborate with AI researchers, cyber operators, government experts, development, product, and automation teams.
• Contribute to cybersecurity systems designed to defend against advanced threats at national scale.