Position: Head of QA
Company: Remotal
Experience required: 5y
Category: QA Automation
English level: upper
Published: 2023-01-01T00:00:00+02:00

We are hiring a highly motivated Head of QA who will be responsible for improving and guaranteeing product quality. You will oversee QA engineers and manual testers distributed across three product teams, each including a PM, ~8 developers, a manual and an automation QA.

**MISSION**
We are hiring a highly motivated Head of QA who will be responsible for improving and guaranteeing product quality. You will oversee QA engineers and manual testers distributed across three product teams, each including a PM, ~8 developers, a manual and an automation QA. 

Your mission will be to create, implement and maintain our QA Strategy and to participate in building new automation frameworks and maintaining existing ones whilst handling the career of your direct reports.

The current development process is extremely “developer-centric”, you will have to help the team to transition to a more quality oriented process. 

**Our current QA stack is using Javascript, Playwright, Superclient, Locust, Lambdatest, GitHub Actions, Allure reports**. 
Our QA team is composed of 6 people, 1 manual tester and 1 automation per product.

**Our applications are built with:** React, Typescript, Google Apps Script, Firebase, Node JS, Java and PostgreSQL. 
Everything is on Google Cloud Platform. Our infrastructure runs on Google Cloud Platform, and more precisely a mix of Google App Engine, Google Apps Script, Firebase RealTime Database, PostgreSQL among other components.

You will report to the Talarian CTO and will work closely with Product and Dev teams.

**Core responsibilities:**
- Taking full responsibility of QA activities for all Talarian products from an technical and execution perspective
- Leading, mentoring and growing the QA team
- Owning the planning, staffing and QA processes
- Adhere to timelines and execute in a fast-paced environment
- Improving QA team processes and productivity
- Providing KPI and metrics to follow QA activities

**ENTREPRISE**
Talarian is a remote first team of 40 people scattered across the globe. We are profitable and growing rapidly, which is to say: we’re hiring! 

We build lightweight productivity and communication tools on top of Google Workspace that are trusted by more than 200,000 organizations worldwide and installed by more than 40 million users. Our software aims to help users automate and scale their everyday tasks, without needing to leave the things they know best: Gmail, Google Sheets, and Google Forms.

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**MUST HAVES**
- Saas experience with large user volumes
- Leadership skills
- You have a passion for quality assurance
- You are extremely detailed-oriented and organized, you don’t let anything slip
- You have a strong focus on customer experience
- You have a broad knowledge of software quality assurance methodologies, tools and processes.
- You’re not easily swayed and you don’t hesitate to stand your ground to ensure we don’t release broken updates
- You understand people, and can provide material feedback on the work of QA engineers
- You’re a very strong communicator, both written and verbal

**CANDIDATE**

- **Experience:** 4+ years as a test engineer. 4+ years of experience managing or supervising a software QA team preferably for SaaS products
- **Cloud:** you have experience with one of the 3 main cloud platforms. - 
- Bonus points for GCP and serverless experience
- Project tracking tools: proficiency with spreadsheets, Github, Jira and other typical software engineering tools
- Knowledge of E2E and API testing
- Language: completely fluent in English, French not necessary. Able to operate in european Timezone, notably Eastern Europe as a significant part of the team is based there
- Writing: you enjoy writing, you care about words and grammar, you are sharp and thorough
- Collaboration: Ability to build effective relationships with colleagues across organizations and functional groups

**PROCESS**
Written questions to answer by email
Take-at-home technical test (automate a test)
You’ll then move on to an interview with some Lead Engineers
Final interview with the CTO and CEO

**BENEFITS**
30 days of paid time off 
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Paid parental leave