QA Lead (LATAM based)

About the role

Arionkoder, an AI consulting firm, is seeking a hands‑on QA Lead to drive quality across its AI‑powered products. You will remain an active quality engineer while setting strategy, planning work, and enabling the team to deliver high‑quality releases.

Key responsibilities

• Define and communicate a coherent quality vision, test strategy and quality standards for assigned products.
• Lead and mentor the QA team, ensuring visibility, removing blockers, and fostering ownership.
• Design and execute manual, exploratory and automated tests, covering functional and non‑functional risks.
• Own release validation, quality gates, defect triage and produce concise release quality reports.
• Integrate AI tools to accelerate test design, automation, triage and reporting while applying human judgment.

Required profile

• 7+ years of professional QA experience with strong manual and automation expertise.
• 2+ years leading QA efforts or teams, accountable for quality objectives.
• 5+ years designing test cases, plans and strategies for complex systems.
• 4+ years building and maintaining automated suites in CI environments.

Required skills

• Modern UI automation tools: Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Appium.
• API testing: Postman, RestAssured, Supertest, Pytest+requests.
• Test case management: Qase, TestRail, Xray, Zephyr.
• Bug tracking: Jira, Linear, Asana.
• CI/CD pipelines: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins.
• Scripting/programming: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Java.