QA Strategist (AI)

Location: Fully remote, but must live within driving distance of the Toronto office; in-person attendance is required every quarter and occasionally for team get-togethers. All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

Salary: CAD 120,000–135,000 per year, plus equity compensation.

Company

hirify.global is a Toronto-headquartered B2B SaaS company building generative AI tax research software for accounting and tax professionals.

What you will do

• Advocate for end users during discovery, planning, and design by surfacing unknowns, clarifying requirements, and identifying overlooked use cases.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and domain experts to create test scenarios aligned with real-world user problems.
• Lead exploratory and regression testing for new features according to release-specific risks.
• Investigate bugs and user feedback, identify root causes with developers, and help develop solutions.
• Build lightweight testing tools, occasionally fix production code, and improve system observability and debuggability.
• Coach developers and expand LLM evaluation tools using production metrics to identify systemic and non-deterministic quality issues.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in a quality-focused role.
• Technical understanding of software systems beyond test cases, with the ability to read and debug production code.
• Ability to write maintainable tools to automate QA tasks and support testing efforts.
• Proficiency in writing scripts or SQL queries to analyze millions of rows and identify data anomalies.
• Strong ownership, initiative, prioritization, and independent work-management skills.
• Strong written and oral communication, including calm reasoning through high-stakes problems and concise documentation.
• User-first mindset focused on product impact rather than technical correctness alone.
• Must be eligible to work in Canada and live within driving distance of the Toronto office.

Nice to have

• Experience with large-scale data pipelines, especially with RAG systems.
• Experience with ingestion systems handling heterogeneous trusted and untrusted data.
• Experience with fault-tolerant, resilient, event-driven distributed systems.
• Experience in high-growth startups, scaleups, or agile environments.
• Interest in LLMs, prompt evaluation, and generative AI system challenges.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible hybrid environment with the option to work remotely most of the time, while attending quarterly in-person meetings and occasional team get-togethers.
• hirify.global covers travel and accommodation for the first three onboarding days when a new team member is based outside the local commuting area.
• Competitive salary, equity compensation, and a benefits package supporting employees and their families.
• Collaborative culture built around kindness, high standards, continuous learning, customer focus, and thoughtful system design.
• Informal leadership opportunity to shape quality practices and accelerate software delivery.

Hiring process

• Chat with the Senior Talent Acquisition Manager.
• Meet the Director of Engineering, connect with a prospective QA peer for a technical exercise, and meet the team.
• Final meeting with the CEO; accommodation support is available during the interview process upon request.