QA Lead

BotCity

QA Lead at BotCity scaling quality assurance for automation products. Leading, mentoring QA team and driving excellence in automated testing.

Posted 6/2/2026full-timeRemote • 💃 Anywhere in Latin AmericaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaPythonSeleniumSwift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead, mentor, and coach the QA team, conducting regular 1:1s and career development planning.
Manage the distribution of QA engineers across squads, implementing a rotation strategy.
Design and implement a robust automation roadmap, prioritizing regression testing to maximize platform stability.
Build and maintain automated flows that simulate real user behavior across web and desktop environments (using Python or Java).
Continuously increase automated test coverage to proactively identify edge cases and prevent production incidents.
Optimize the "development-to-delivery" window by refining validation processes without compromising quality standards.
Act as a focal point for incident management, triaging bugs alongside developers and ensuring swift resolution and root-cause analysis.
Collaborate closely with engineering team to ensure the QA process is mature, solid, and aligned with agile delivery cycles.
Define and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) through Jira, such as response times, validation cycles, and defect leakage.
Evangelize QA best practices within the engineering team to ensure quality is a shared responsibility.
Provide regular reports to senior management regarding the health of the area, automation progress, and product stability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science or related field.
Prior hands-on experience with software testing automation ( 5+ years).
Proven experience in leading and scaling QA teams.
Experience in at least one programming/scripting language (Python or Java).
Experience testing both Web and Desktop applications.
Communicates with clarity and collaborative humility.
Drives action with bold decisiveness and consistently insisting on high standards to deliver with speed and confidence.
Familiarity with Behavior-driven development (BDD).
Familiarity with test automation tools such as Postman, Selenium, Playwright, Behave.
Experience with development of Automated Pipelines (preferably with GitHub Actions).
Experience with Atlassian Jira.
Experience working with MS Office/Excel, Google Suite, Notion.
Portuguese - Fluent.
English - Advanced.
Ability to travel as needed to support events and meet the team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Hard Skills & Tools

software testing automationPythonJavaBehavior-driven development (BDD)automated test coverageincident managementkey performance indicators (KPIs)automated pipelinesregression testingtest automation

Soft Skills

leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationdecisivenesshigh standardsproblem-solvingreportingcareer developmentagile delivery