Описание

We are looking for a QA Lead to join our Prequel team. In this role, you will collaborate with our product and engineering teams to build and refine QA processes, adopt new tools, including AI, and ensure seamless, high-quality releases driven by data and metrics. Prequel is our main app – a mobile photo and video editor. This role is for someone with strong people management skills and a process-oriented mindset — someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, tackles challenges head-on, mentors team members, and balances swift release cycles with high standards of quality.

Responsibilities

Lead a team of 5 QA engineers (capacity planning, 1:1s, performance reviews, IDPs, mentoring, and hiring)
Design, implement, and oversee QA processes and metrics aligned with business goals
Collaborate with Product and Engineering to manage team priorities and quickly adapt plans to shifting business needs, ensuring QA never becomes a bottleneck
Build and execute a 3–6 month improvement roadmap (AI adoption, automation, reducing manual testing overhead) while maintaining a team capacity buffer for technical initiatives and learning
Collect and analyze quality and delivery metrics, test hypotheses to improve processes, and stay agile enough to pivot quickly when a hypothesis fails

Requirements

Proven track record of managing a QA team, conducting performance discussions, developing individual team members, and hiring
Ability to balance speed, cost, and quality under uncertainty while working in close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams
Ability to translate strategic ideas into an actionable roadmap, effectively communicate the value of changes, and embed new practices into daily workflows
Strong understanding of modern QA practices (automation, CI/CD, risk-based testing, quality gates), hands-on iOS and Android testing experience, and deep familiarity with mobile release cycles (App Store / Google Play, feature flags, A/B testing)
Solid grasp of Computer Science concepts, hands-on experience with traffic sniffers and gRPC, and practical experience applying AI tools to QA processes
Fluent English, Russian

We offer

Professional development – paid training and courses, online / offline lectures, workshops and trainings
Our employees take part in all major IT meetups
Adaptation – a high-quality onboarding process that helps new employees settle in quickly and smoothly
We regularly collect feedback throughout the probation period
Career development – Review is conducted every 6 months, we monitor results and help improve performance
Balance between work and personal life – ability to conveniently build your work schedule, take vacations and days off without a bunch of approvals and bureaucracy
Health – health insurance compensation
Office space – a cool office in Montenegro, with comfortable workplaces and lounge areas
Relocation – we offer a full package of documents for those who are ready to move to Montenegro, and we help with obtaining a residence permit
Prequel+ – premium access to the entire Prequel product

Hiring process

HR interview
Hiring manager interview
Final interview
Reference check