Lead QA

About the Position

We're seeking a Lead QA to manage our central QA service across all Mitgo business units, ensuring stable and predictable testing outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead the central QA service across all Mitgo business units and ensure stable, predictable testing outcomes.
• Establish and maintain unified testing processes, QA standards, and quality practices across manual and automation QA.
• Develop QA strategy and grow test automation for company products.
• Manage QA team structure, allocation across business units, hiring, onboarding, development, and performance reviews.
• Build and maintain effective communication with development, product, and business stakeholders across business units.
• Select and implement testing tools and practices (TMS, CI/CD integration, reporting, AI-assisted workflows).
• Define, monitor, and analyze quality metrics and QA service KPIs (QA Monitor, monthly reporting).
• Coordinate manual QA, Auto QA, load testing, and regression practices across projects.
• Participate in code reviews of automated tests and support integration of autotests into GitLab CI pipelines.
• Create and maintain testing documentation in TMS and knowledge base.
• Support QA audits, regression planning, and continuous improvement of QA maturity across projects.
• Represent the QA service in cross-department initiatives and ensure alignment with company quality goals.

Requirements

• Experience in large companies with distributed development teams and multiple product/business units.
• Building testing processes from scratch and managing a QA team of 5+ engineers for at least 1 year.
• Experience developing and implementing QA strategies and testing approaches at the department or service level.
• Ability to define quality metrics (e.g., test coverage, bugs per release, defect detection rate) and conduct their regular analysis.
• Strong knowledge of testing methodologies, types, methods, and test design techniques.
• Understanding of the software development lifecycle and the role of QA at all stages.
• Experience setting up test frameworks and launching automated tests on a project from scratch.
• Writing functional end-to-end automated tests using Playwright, Puppeteer, or Cypress.
• API testing experience, including Postman, Swagger, and similar tools.
• Experience testing microservices, message brokers (RabbitMQ, Kafka), and databases (SQL and NoSQL).
• Experience with Docker containers and containerized test environments.
• Conducting load testing and preparing load testing reports.
• Experience with test management systems (Qase, TestRail, or similar).
• Experience with bug tracking systems (YouTrack, Jira, or similar).
• Setting up CI/CD for running automated tests (GitLab CI preferred; Jenkins, TeamCity, or similar).
• Working with version control systems (Git, GitLab).
• Knowledge of programming languages used for test automation (JavaScript, Python, or similar).
• Experience in hiring, onboarding, mentoring, performance reviews, and team development.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience in data testing.
• Experience in security testing.
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate testing and test documentation creation.
• Experience with QA dashboards and quality reporting (e.g., QA Monitor, Grafana).
• Experience managing both manual QA and automation QA sub-teams.

Soft Skills

• Leadership qualities and strong communication skills.
• Ability to work in uncertainty and solve complex cross-team problems.
• Ability to motivate the team and build effective internal communication.
• Ability to interact with stakeholders and ensure product quality at the business level.

We Offer

• Work in the international company.
• Hybrid working format (office/home office).
• Corporate education - courses and trainings.
• Voluntary health insurance after probation period.
• Effective onboarding program for a better start.
• Corporate events and team buildings.

About the Company

Admitad is a leading international company in the digital marketing industry, providing innovative solutions and services to businesses worldwide.