Role Description As a Head of QA at Smartcat, your mission is to be a company-wide centre of QA excellence, elevating our product quality to match that of top-tier tech companies. You will innovate testing strategies, enhance cross-department collaboration, and lead the QA team towards excellence, ensuring Smartcat exceeds customer expectations in reliability and user experience. Outcomes - Build a quality management system to reduce the number of production bugs by 50%. - Collaborate with Engineering Directors to create an effective automated testing process, including end-to-end, unit, and API tests. - Develop a testing process with developers’ involvement to integrate testing into the development process. - Define quality metrics and test strategies to develop testing procedures. - Continuously implement AI-based QA approach. Qualifications - Have at least 10+ years of experience as a QA engineer, with 5+ years as QA lead of 5+ people. - Established testing processes and supported them. - Know and value standards of quality, software testing methodologies, and test design techniques. - Have 5+ years of practical experience in test process automation with REST API and UI on any high-level programming language (C# is preferable). - Know why and how to bring testing outside the boundaries of the QA team. - Have experience with Selenium Webdriver, Git, and Allure. Knowledge of Docker and DevOps practices will be a considerable advantage. - Ready to work in a dynamic atmosphere of a startup and bring something new to the table. - Have no fear in making decisions and can provide results in set time frames. Requirements - Experience in hiring team members. - Capability to motivate, teach, and help team members reach personal goals. - Practical experience in integrating automating testing processes. Benefits - Fully remote team. - Global team of 180+ enthusiastic people spread across 30 countries. - Innovating the $50 billion language translation industry. - High impact role enabling innovation and inclusion in organizations. - Opportunity to transition from a post-Series B startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Company Description Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises. Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. - Founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content. - Trusted by more than 1,000 global companies including 25% of the Fortune 500. - Backed by leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces, and AI. - Growing at 150% YoY, providing a unique combination of a hyper-growth environment with downside protection.