Primary responsibility:
- People Management:
- Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers, fostering a culture of growth and development.
- Conduct performance reviews, set objectives, and support career progression.
- Recruit, hire, and retain talent.
- Implement and measure quality metrics
- Own test planning and readiness
- Support release readiness
- Oversee the evolution of test automation frameworks
- Ensure appropriate balance of automated and manual testing
- Drive adoption of best practices
- Stay current with QA trends and tooling
- Act as the voice of quality in leadership discussions
- Partner with Engineering Managers and Product Owners
- Contribute to capacity planning
- Advocate for early QA involvement in product and technical design
Requirements:
- At least 3 years of experience managing QA engineers across multiple Agile product teams, ideally in fast-paced, cross-functional environments.
- Strong foundational experience as a hands-on QA or test automation engineer, with a deep understanding of both manual and automated testing strategies.
- Proven expertise in quality engineering practices such as test automation, CI/CD integration, risk-based testing, release readiness, defect triage, and root cause analysis.
- Experience defining and driving QA strategy across teams, including alignment on testing scope, tooling, and processes, in close collaboration with Engineering and Product counterparts.
- Deep understanding of iOS and Android operating systems and platform-specific requirements (e.g., App Store and Google Play guidelines).
- Proficiency in mobile app testing — including UI, UX, functional, regression, smoke, and exploratory testing — across real devices and simulators/emulators.
- Demonstrated ability to prioritize and lead quality initiatives across multiple teams, balancing short-term release goals with long-term quality improvements — even in high-pressure or ambiguous situations.
- Track record of hiring, mentoring, and developing high-performing QA engineers.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Good level of English (B2 or higher).
- Experience with Analytics, Marketing tools (e.g. Amplitude, Kochava, Braze, Crashlytics)
Our technology stack:
- AWS
- K8S
- Terraform
- Java / Go
- NoSql (Couchbase, MongoDB)
- Jenkins / ArgoCD
We are pleased to offer:
- Modern offices with free parking in the very center of Minsk or Chisinau.
- Onsite or hybrid work opportunity.
- Really good hardware.
- An exciting and challenging job with talented people around.
- Great learning and growth opportunities.
- Compensation for professional training, seminars, and conferences (Moldova DevCon).
- First-class English lessons.
- More perks for the Minsk and Chisinau office full-time employees.
- Remote work is possible for B2B ($, gross).
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What We Do
We know that you’ll have looked at quite a few company pages but IDT is different. We want people who want to make a big difference to our company with big ambitions. We’re a truly global team, with 1300 people working across all continents, apart from (at the moment!) Antarctica. But we are proud that despite our size, we encourage and support any in-house entrepreneurs to develop their ideas into business action. Our exciting growth plans make it a great time to join us.
Our people are the reason for IDT’s passion for success. The IDT family is made up of people of all backgrounds, expertise, and interests, all with a relentless team spirit. We need people who share both our commitment to success and excitement about our journey. You won’t ever be bored or have to wonder how to fill your time. You’ll find the work challenging but you’ll get the support of a great team to help you beat those challenges. You will also be expected to support others as well as work hard, work well and work with a smile.
If you want a join a company that will help you become your brilliant best and achieve amazing results, then you want to join IDT.
