Quality Assurance Engineering Lead
About the Company
At Future Secure AI, we're building something genuinely new — and we're looking for people bold enough to build it with us. We work at the frontier of AI, tackling big, real-world problems for global enterprises across multiple industries, armed with state-of-the-art technology and a culture that prizes courage, rigor, and relentless curiosity. Our BRAVER values aren't just words on a wall — they describe the kind of people we are and the standard we hold ourselves to every day. Our leadership team is entrepreneurial, experienced, and accessible, with an open-door policy that means you'll never be just a number here. We invest seriously in your growth because we know our success depends on yours. If you're ready to work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry, push into uncharted territory, and do work that genuinely matters, Future Secure AI is the place for you.
About the Role We are hiring a Quality Assurance Engineering Lead to build and lead our quality assurance team while staying hands-on with testing. This is a player-coach role by design: roughly 70% people leadership (hiring, developing, and managing QA engineers) and 30% individual contributor work (hands-on testing on priority releases). As the team scales, we expect this balance to shift toward more people leadership. The ideal candidate wants both the impact of building a team and the satisfaction of staying technically close to the product.
Responsibilities
Build and grow the QA team, including hiring, onboarding, and setting performance expectations
Manage day-to-day team operations: workload distribution, 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development
Personally execute hands-on testing (functional, regression, performance, security) on priority features or releases, staying close to the product
Own QA strategy and roadmap, aligning testing priorities with product and engineering goals
Design and maintain test plans, working directly with development teams to ensure requirements are covered
Drive adoption of automation frameworks and tooling to improve testing efficiency and reduce manual overhead
Own QA's integration into CI/CD pipelines, partnering with DevOps to optimize test execution and feedback loops
Track and report quality metrics (defect escape rate, test coverage, release readiness) to leadership
Lead root-cause analysis on significant quality escapes and drive process improvements
Represent QA in cross-functional planning and architecture reviews, advocating for testability and quality standards
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
6+ years of experience in software QA, with 2+ years directly managing a QA team (hiring, performance reviews, staffing)
Comfortable operating as both a manager and an individual contributor, with a genuine interest in staying technically hands-on rather than moving fully into management
Strong proficiency in manual and automated testing, with hands-on experience in tools such as Selenium, JUnit, TestNG
Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI) and integrating QA into deployment pipelines
Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
Strong people leadership skills: hiring, mentoring, conflict resolution, performance management
Excellent problem-solving and communication skills, able to translate quality risk for technical and non-technical stakeholders
Ability to prioritize and switch between strategic and hands-on work in a fast-paced environment
Why Join Us?
A high-performance culture
State-of-the-art technology
Experience world-class leadership
Scale of impact and purpose
A competitive salary and a huge growth trajectory
Work with the best in the industry
Flexible work environment
Diversity and creativity
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