QA Lead

We are looking for a QA Lead to join our Prequel team . In this role, you will collaborate with our product and engineering teams to build and refine QA processes, adopt new tools, including AI, and ensure seamless, high-quality releases driven by data and metrics. Prequel ( https://prequel.app/ ) is our main app – a mobile photo and video editor. This role is for someone with strong people management skills and a process-oriented mindset — someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, tackles challenges head-on, mentors team members, and balances swift release cycles with high standards of quality. Team Management: Lead a team of 5 QA engineers (capacity planning, 1:1s, performance reviews, IDPs, mentoring, and hiring). Process Optimization: Design, implement, and oversee QA processes and metrics aligned with business goals. Delivery & Prioritization: Collaborate with Product and Engineering to manage team priorities and quickly adapt plans to shifting business needs, ensuring QA never becomes a bottleneck. QA Function Development: Build and execute a 3–6 month improvement roadmap (AI adoption, automation, reducing manual testing overhead) while maintaining a team capacity buffer for technical initiatives and learning. Data-Driven Approach: Collect and analyze quality and delivery metrics, test hypotheses to improve processes, and stay agile enough to pivot quickly when a hypothesis fails. People Management: Proven track record of managing a QA team, conducting performance discussions, developing individual team members, and hiring. Stakeholder & Process Management: Ability to balance speed, cost, and quality under uncertainty while working in close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams. Change Management: Ability to translate strategic ideas into an actionable roadmap, effectively communicate the value of changes, and embed new practices into daily workflows. QA & Mobile Expertise: Strong understanding of modern QA practices (automation, CI/CD, risk-based testing, quality gates), hands-on iOS and Android testing experience, and deep familiarity with mobile release cycles (App Store / Google Play, feature flags, A/B testing). Technical Background & AI: Solid grasp of Computer Science concepts, hands-on experience with traffic sniffers and gRPC, and practical experience applying AI tools to QA processes. Required languages: English, Russian. Нow we hire: HR interview Hiring manager interview Final interview Reference check Professional development – paid training and courses, online / offline lectures, workshops and trainings. Our employees take part in all major IT meetups. Adaptation – a high-quality onboarding process that helps new employees settle in quickly and smoothly. We regularly collect feedback throughout the probation period. Career development – Review is conducted every 6 months, we monitor results and help improve performance. Balance between work and personal life – ability to conveniently build your work schedule, take vacations and days off without a bunch of approvals and bureaucracy. Health – health insurance compensation. Office space – a cool office in Montenegro, with comfortable workplaces and lounge areas. Relocation – we offer a full package of documents for those who are ready to move to Montenegro, and we help with obtaining a residence permit. Prequel+ – premium access to the entire Prequel product.