About the role

Lead QA Engineer owning AI-driven testing and reliability for Social Discovery Group’s global social discovery platforms. Building automation, CI/CD quality gates, and coverage for critical financial flows.

Responsibilities

Design and build the end-to-end testing pipeline for a product largely written by AI agents, including pre-merge checks, nightly test runs, release and production gates
Define the quality strategy for AI-generated code, including risk assessment, coverage requirements, and sustainable scaling
Set up continuous automated UI testing across browsers and mobile devices, including AI-agent-driven testing
Evaluate, choose and integrate external tools and services
Own product reliability from a technical perspective, with special focus on critical financial flows
Work closely with engineers and DevOps to embed quality into the development process and balance speed and safety
Use AI agents daily to create, maintain and evolve tests and testing tooling
Drive quality initiatives proactively and share best practices with the team
Join a small senior team as an individual contributor with no people management

Proven experience building and owning testing processes in large, complex products with high reliability requirements, as a QA Architect, senior QA/SDET, or a senior engineer responsible for testing strategy
Strong engineering background: understanding of system architecture, backend services, CI/CD and deployment processes
Hands-on experience with test automation and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines
Daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar) as a core part of your work
Genuine interest in AI-first development
High autonomy and ownership: ability to take loosely defined problems, propose solutions and drive them to completion without detailed specs
Willingness to work as a hands-on individual contributor in a small senior team
Fluent Russian

REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full-time
Vacation 28 calendar days per year
7 wellness days per year (time off)
Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company
50% payment for professional training, international conferences, and meetings
Corporate discount for English lessons
Health benefits: compensation of up to $1,000 gross per year per employee for self-purchased health insurance or doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives if not eligible for corporate medical insurance
Equipped workplace and necessary equipment in offices or co-working locations
Reimbursement of workplace costs up to $1000 gross once every 3 years for other locations
Internal gamified gratitude system with bonuses exchangeable for merchandise, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.