quality engineer (auto) for a mobile puzzle app

Описание:

X-FLOW is a product company developing Happy Color, a mobile application in the puzzle and casual genres.

Задачи:

• Own the product-level quality strategy and its implementation roadmap
• Define release-readiness criteria and independently assess product quality
• Take responsibility for product-wide acceptance testing
• Validate cross-domain flows across mobile clients, backend services, analytics, advertising, consent, payments, and other integrations
• Identify systemic product risks that cannot be detected within a single engineering domain
• Require teams to improve builds, test results, documentation, or other quality artifacts when they do not meet agreed standards
• Lead the transition from predominantly manual testing toward a balanced Quality Engineering model
• Build sustainable E2E and regression automation for critical product scenarios
• Introduce quality gates into CI/CD pipelines
• Improve test environments, test data, reporting, and automation stability
• Introduce risk-based testing, shift-left practices, and appropriate AI-assisted QA tools
• Reduce regression time and release uncertainty without sacrificing product quality
• Build and lead the Product Quality team responsible for product acceptance, critical regression, E2E testing, user-experience validation, and E2E and regression automation
• Hire, develop, and mentor manual QA, automation, and SDET engineers
• Assess existing QA engineers and define appropriate development paths based on skills, motivation, and demonstrated results
• Establish clear ownership, expectations, and measurable outcomes for every team member
• Coordinate the quality function across Backend QA, Client QA, and other QA
• Work with engineering leaders to ensure that component-level testing is completed before Product Quality acceptance
• Establish common quality standards, metrics, and audit practices across QA teams
• Conduct regular quality reviews and identify gaps in domain-level testing
• Ensure that standards reflect the needs of all QA directions rather than one specific platform or domain
• Act as the technical owner of QA standards or appoint and support an appropriate Quality Engineering Technical Lead
• Define and monitor meaningful quality indicators, including escaped defects, critical regression coverage, automation stability and flaky-test rate, regression duration, release-blocking defects, defects at system boundaries, and production and support trends
• Use analytics, support cases, incidents, and production signals to identify areas requiring additional coverage
• Present product-quality risks and improvement progress to engineering and product leadership
• Establish the Product Quality function and its responsibilities
• Define the interaction between Backend QA, Client QA, and Product Quality
• Introduce transparent product-acceptance criteria
• Identify critical E2E and regression scenarios
• Create a prioritized automation roadmap
• Launch measurable improvements to automation, CI quality gates, and regression speed
• Provide leadership with a transparent view of product readiness and quality risks

Требования:

• 5+ Years of experience in QA or Quality Engineering
• 3+ Years in a QA leadership or Quality Engineering leadership role
• Strong product mindset with the ability to identify user, business, and systemic risks, not just verify compliance with documented requirements
• Proven experience transforming manual testing into an engineering-driven quality function
• Experience building or significantly improving E2E and regression automation
• Strong understanding of test automation architecture, CI/CD integration, test environments, and quality gates
• Ability to review automation approaches, framework architecture, code quality, and engineering practices
• Experience testing high-scale mobile applications or games
• Strong knowledge of mobile application testing, backend and API testing, distributed and cross-system scenarios, analytics validation including Firebase, databases and SQL-based platforms, advertising and attribution systems such as Adjust or AppsFlyer, and release and production quality management
• Experience working with Android Studio, Xcode, Charles Proxy or similar tools, API clients, and mobile automation frameworks
• Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence teams in a matrix structure
• Ability to make difficult quality decisions and clearly explain product risks
• Fluent Russian
• English at Intermediate level or higher
• Nice to have: experience with ad-driven mobile products, testing monetization, consent, GDPR/CCPA, payments, or analytics, building SDET or automation teams, applying AI tools to testing, test design, defect analysis, or QA operations, working with incident, support, and production data

Условия:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible working hours
• Remote/office work options
• Career growth and professional development opportunities
• Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team in a creative and dynamic environment
• Fun and inclusive company culture that celebrates diversity and creativity