QA Lead

Job Description

Quick Facts

• Work Policy: Remote (Prague, Czechia base)
• Job Type: Full Time
• Experience Level: Lead / 3+ years in leadership
• Core Tech Stack: Postman, Swagger, SQL, Kafka, Jira, Confluence, TestRail, Kibana, Grafana, ELK, Agile/Scrum

About Talentgrator

Talentgrator is a forward-thinking organization operating within the SaaS Platform and iGaming sectors. The company is dedicated to continuous professional development, providing extensive internal knowledge bases, workshops, and coaching to ensure its employees are constantly growing and adapting to new technologies. They maintain a highly supportive corporate environment that values work-life balance and team-building.

About the Role

Talentgrator is seeking an experienced QA Lead to continuously improve and drive QA standards, processes, and testing approaches across multiple engineering teams. In this critical leadership role, you will take ownership of the overarching QA strategy, conduct risk assessments, and meticulously define testing scopes.

You will lead distributed QA teams, mentoring engineers while collaborating intimately with Engineering and Product stakeholders throughout the entire SDLC. This position is ideal for a highly analytical and communicative professional who excels at building QA processes from scratch and driving continuous improvement through data-backed quality metrics.

What You’ll Do

• Continuously improve and aggressively drive testing approaches, standards, and QA processes across multiple cross-functional teams.
• Implement and define the overarching QA strategy, risk assessments, quality standards, and testing scope.
• Actively participate in release readiness, estimation, requirements analysis, and planning sessions.
• Maintain and construct robust testing documentation, encompassing quality standards and comprehensive test strategies.
• Collaborate intimately with Engineering, Product, and other critical stakeholders throughout the SDLC.
• Lead geographically distributed QA teams, conducting technical interviews, mentoring engineers, and supporting their long-term professional development.
• Collect, define, and analyze key QA metrics to actively drive continuous process improvement.
• Participate deeply in root cause analysis and production incident investigations.
• Drive continuous improvements in QA and engineering practices across all teams.
• Support and champion the seamless integration of automation into the broader testing strategy and overall QA process.
• Define clear automation testing tools, levels, and approaches, driving their full integration into existing QA frameworks.

What You’ll Need

• A minimum of 3 years of experience operating in a QA Lead or comparable leadership position.
• A proven track record of successfully implementing quality standards and improving QA processes.
• Extensive experience defining comprehensive testing strategies across multiple services and teams.
• Robust knowledge of software testing methodologies and sophisticated test design techniques.
• Broad experience encompassing acceptance, exploratory, smoke, regression, integration, and functional testing.
• Solid, hands-on experience executing manual API testing utilizing Swagger, Postman, or similar platforms.
• Experience writing SQL queries and analyzing complex database schemas to strictly validate transactional data.
• A deep understanding of API contract testing and event-driven architectures (message queues, Kafka).
• Experience operating test management tools (Xray, Zephyr, TestRail) alongside Confluence and Jira.
• Familiarity with monitoring and logging utilities such as ELK, Grafana, and Kibana.
• Experience successfully integrating automation into manual QA processes.
• A strong, practical understanding of Agile methodologies (Kanban, Scrum).
• Proven experience leading distributed QA units, supporting their professional growth, and mentoring engineers.
• Experience directly participating in root cause analysis and investigating production incidents.
• Exceptional leadership, organizational, communication, and analytical skills.
• English language proficiency at a B2 level or higher.

Nice to Have

• Prior experience navigating transactional systems or the gaming industry.
• Experience testing high-load, complex distributed systems.
• A background in building complete QA processes from scratch.
• Experience executing load or performance testing.
• A solid foundation in test automation.

Benefits

• 20 standard vacation days plus 5 dedicated family days per year.
• A flexible start to the workday to accommodate personal schedules.
• Direct support from a professional psychologist and corporate coach.
• Participation in regular corporate events, trips, workshops, and internal/external activities.
• Full access to team-building activities, meetups, and a robust internal knowledge base.
• Continuous professional development support and ongoing training in emerging technologies.