Automation QA Lead (.NET)

Location: Warsaw, Poland; hybrid work with 2 days in the office and 3 remote.

Salary: 24,000–29,000 PLN + VAT on a B2B contract, plus ESOPs.

Company

hirify.global builds financial intelligence software used by leading banks, serving 100M+ users across 30+ countries.

What you will do

• Write C# tests and build automation for functional, API, integration, regression, performance, load, and exploratory testing.
• Generate meaningful test coverage with Claude Code, Cursor, and similar AI tools across complex .NET codebases.
• Build and own CI/CD test automation so changes are verified automatically and failures provide useful signals.
• Design and run performance and load tests for database-heavy, high-volume systems, interpreting bottlenecks and results.
• Lead the QA Guild, establish technical standards, collaborate with engineers on testability, and turn production issues into preventive tests.
• Coach two Testers as they progress from manual testing toward automation and deeper engineering skills.

Requirements

• Strong production experience with C#/.NET, including writing real code and understanding complex services.
• Experience building test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines, not only maintaining scripts.
• Experience with API, functional, performance, load, and stress testing.
• Experience with MSSQL or PostgreSQL and testing data-heavy systems.
• AI-assisted development experience with tools such as Cursor or Claude Code.
• Ability to keep automation suites fast, stable, and trusted, with a focus on coverage, signal, and confidence.
• Ability to mentor and inspire a small team, collaborate closely with engineers, and make sensible risk-based business decisions.
• Ability to work effectively within demanding on-premises banking environments and real technical constraints.

Nice to have

• Playwright or Selenium.
• Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, or Python.
• Fintech experience.

Culture & Benefits

• B2B engagement with equity through ESOPs.
• Private healthcare, fitness support, and meal and phone allowances.
• Technical opinions are welcomed, with meaningful influence over quality practices.
• Software runs inside global banks and is used by millions of people daily.
• Most systems run on premises at client sites while migrating toward the cloud.

Hiring process

• 30-minute screening call covering real projects, decisions, and trade-offs.
• 15-minute meeting with the CTO.
• 90-minute onsite or call interview involving a C# test automation and test strategy problem, AI, performance and pipeline testing, and QA team leadership; AI tools are welcome.