We are looking for a QA System Lead to join our Kyiv office and become a key part of a cross-country engineering organization. In this role, you will combine people management with strong coordination of QA practices in 3Shape Unite project.
You will lead two teams (for now 6 colleagues in total) and act as a QA Lead for a large-scale project involving 10+ test engineers. Your focus will be on enabling collaboration, aligning testing approaches, including automation tests, and ensuring consistency in quality across multiple development teams.
Areas of responsibility:
- Lead and support teammates, including coaching, mentorship, and continuous feedback
- Drive hiring & onboarding for your teams
- Facilitate alignment on testing approaches across multiple teams
- Coordinate QA-related activities across the project
- Contribute to the Test strategy together with stakeholders
- Ensure consistency of QA processes, practices, and standards
- Provide even better connection between QA, development, product, and release teams etc.
To succeed in your role, you should possess the following skills and competencies:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
- 5+ years of professional experience in software development as a QA Lead or relevant roles (Test Manager, Quality Manager etc.)
- Proven people management experience
- Strong experience defining and implementing end-to-end QA strategies across the SDLC, including Shift-Left practices
- Strong focus on test coverage monitoring, defect management, and root cause analysis
- Solid knowledge of test pyramid principles (unit, integration, UI) and their practical implementation in modern systems
- Strong experience in non-functional testing (performance, resilience, compatibility etc.)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Experience of working in cross-team and cross-location environments
- Fluent English