Xsolla is hiring a Director of Quality Assurance to own and scale the quality engineering function across multiple product lines, teams, and time zones.

Key responsibilities:

  • Define and execute QA strategy, quality gates, defect governance and release readiness across products.
  • Architect and oversee enterprise-grade test automation frameworks (UI, API, database) and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines.
  • Drive adoption of infrastructure-as-code, containerized test execution and ephemeral test environments; evaluate and implement QA tooling and observability integrations.
  • Champion AI-assisted testing practices (generation of test cases, automation code, flaky test identification) and define governance for AI-generated artifacts.
  • Lead, mentor and develop a distributed team of 30+ QA professionals; manage resource allocation, onboarding, and career development.
  • Establish QA KPIs/OKRs, run root cause analysis on production escapes and present quality metrics to executive stakeholders.

Required qualifications:

  • 15+ years in QA/Quality Engineering with 6+ years in Senior Manager or Director-level roles.
  • Proven experience leading teams of 30+ people across multiple time zones.
  • Hands-on technical proficiency and ability to write/review test automation code (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java).
  • Deep expertise in test automation frameworks (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress), API testing (REST/GraphQL), database validation (SQL).
  • Performance testing experience (K6, JMeter, Gatling, Locust).
  • Expert knowledge of Git (branching strategies) and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI) and integrating automated tests into pipelines.
  • Demonstrated professional use of AI tools for testing (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot or similar).
  • Experience with test management platforms (Qase, TestRail, Zephyr) and Agile/Scrum environments.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Preferred:

  • Experience in video game, fintech, or e-commerce/payments industries.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native architectures (GCP, AWS, Azure), containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes), security testing (OWASP) and data pipeline testing.
  • Experience building QA Centres of Excellence and transforming QA to automation-first practices.