QA Lead (AI)

Location: 100% remote with European working hours

Company

hirify.global is a fast-growing, multi-product EdTech company with 200+ professionals creating and scaling digital products for global markets.

What you will do

• Lead Manual and Automation QA teams with 5 direct reports, including workload planning, mentoring, feedback, performance reviews, onboarding, and hiring.
• Own QA strategy, testing standards, quality gates, regression approach, and the balance between manual and automated testing.
• Plan regression, smoke, functional, integration, and automated testing across frequent releases.
• Drive automation coverage for critical business flows and own release readiness, risk identification, and go/no-go communication.
• Track test coverage, production defects, defect leakage, and regression efficiency to guide quality decisions.
• Introduce AI-assisted QA practices where they deliver measurable impact without compromising quality.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience as a QA Lead with direct reports in both manual and automation testing, including workload distribution, mentoring, feedback, and performance reviews, gained in product IT companies.
• End-to-end ownership of test strategy, quality gates, regression planning, manual-versus-automated testing balance, release go/no-go decisions, risk-based testing, and quality metrics.
• Hands-on testing of frontend, backend, APIs, integrations, and E2E flows, with independent investigation using Chrome DevTools, network analysis, logs, HAR files, and monitoring.
• Confident use of Postman and Swagger/OpenAPI, including authentication, webhooks, retries, error handling, and data consistency.
• Experience testing payment and subscription flows involving Chargebee, Adapty, Payrails, Apple Pay, Google Pay, taxes, local currencies, and pricing.
• Understanding of test automation architecture, CI/CD, flaky tests, and maintenance cost, with practical familiarity with Playwright/TypeScript or a similar framework.
• Use of AI tools such as Claude, Cursor, or similar for test design, requirements analysis, and documentation, with critical evaluation of their output.
• Ability to communicate quality risks to engineering, product, and leadership, push back when needed, and build quality as a shared engineering responsibility.

Nice to have

• Hands-on development and maintenance of Playwright/TypeScript automated tests.
• Experience with funnel platforms, A/B testing, traffic allocation, experiment analytics, CRM and marketing integrations such as Reteno, or testing AI features and non-deterministic systems.
• Experience introducing AI-assisted QA and measuring its effectiveness.
• Experience managing QA in a fast-growing product company, ideally in B2C mobile subscriptions or EdTech.
• Experience with analytics validation, complex UI flows, responsive design, cross-browser testing, TestRail, Jira, and Confluence.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work with a globally distributed team across Europe and beyond.
• Company-provided medical expense compensation.
• AI subscription and other productivity tools.
• Flexible paid time off, including 21 days of annual leave and 10 bank holidays.
• Collaborative environment with direct impact on platform quality, revenue, and release speed.

Hiring process

• Send a CV or LinkedIn profile.
• A short note describing a QA process or team built and the results delivered is encouraged.