Staff Engineer QA, PC Apps

TL;DR

Staff Engineer QA, PC Apps: Defining and driving Software Quality Assurance (SQA) strategy across a portfolio of consumer-facing, client-side applications used at global scale with an accent on designing scalable test and automation frameworks. Focus on influencing engineering and product decisions across multiple teams and mentoring senior SQA and software engineers.

Location: Dublin, Ireland

Company

hirify.global is a leader in entertainment innovation, revolutionizing how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide.

What you will do

• Define and evolve Software Quality Assurance (SQA) strategy, standards, and long-term direction across multiple PC applications.
• Design, own, and evolve scalable SQA automation frameworks and validation strategies.
• Establish quality metrics, benchmarks, and release criteria to enable predictable, high-quality delivery.
• Identify systemic quality risks and lead cross-team SQA initiatives to address them.
• Partner with software engineering, product, and leadership to influence quality and delivery decisions.
• Mentor senior SQA and software engineers, raising quality awareness and technical standards across teams.

Requirements

• Deep experience in Software Quality Assurance (SQA), quality engineering, or test architecture for complex, production-grade software systems.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQA automation and quality tooling, using scripting or programming languages such as Python.
• Proven ability to design, evolve, and own SQA automation frameworks and validation strategies across multiple test levels (unit, integration, system, end-to-end).
• Strong understanding of CI/CD-driven development and SQA validation workflows, including quality gates and release readiness.
• Ability to analyze, debug, and reason about issues in C#-based client applications.
• Experience applying SQA practices to client-side, consumer-facing applications with high requirements for stability, reliability, and quality at scale.

Nice to have

• Experience building SQA frameworks or tooling in Python.
• Familiarity with Windows-based client application platforms.
• Experience debugging system-level or native components (e.g., C++ dependencies).
• Experience defining organization-wide SQA standards, metrics, or release criteria.

Culture & Benefits

• Collegial culture with challenging projects.
• Excellent compensation and benefits.
• Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.
• Engineering-led Software Quality Assurance culture that values ownership and long-term sustainability.
• Modern development and validation workflows, including CI/CD-driven quality gates.
• Opportunity to shape SQA strategy, frameworks, and standards across teams.