Remote AI-First Lead QA Engineer – Automation & Reliability

Lever, Inc.; Canada; Remote; CAD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Vacation and wellness benefits

Training reimbursement

Referral bonuses

Health benefits

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Lead QA Engineer (AI Native) in Canada to own the quality strategy for a complex AI-driven product, with critical financial flows, in a fully remote setting.

You will design end-to-end testing, implement AI-agent testing approaches, and collaborate with a small senior team to raise reliability and release safety.

This role emphasizes hands-on automation, scalable processes, and the thoughtful application of AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and owning testing processes for large, complex products with high reliability requirements.
• Strong software engineering foundation, including a solid understanding of system architecture, backend services, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes.
• Hands-on experience building automated tests and integrating testing into CI/CD workflows.
• Practical daily experience using AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or comparable tools as an integral part of software development.
• Genuine interest in AI-first development and the ability to adapt testing practices to AI-generated code.
• Strong autonomy and ownership, with the ability to take loosely defined challenges, develop solutions, and drive them through implementation without detailed specifications.
• Ability and willingness to remain hands-on as an individual contributor within a small, senior-level team.
• Strong problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
• Fluent Russian.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the end-to-end testing pipeline, including pre-merge checks, nightly test runs, release validation, and production quality gates.
• Define the quality strategy for AI-generated code, identifying high-risk areas, establishing appropriate test coverage, and ensuring the approach remains sustainable as the product scales.
• Build and maintain continuous automated UI testing across browsers and mobile devices, including AI-agent-driven testing approaches.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate external testing tools and services where they can improve reliability, coverage, or efficiency.
• Own product reliability from a technical QA perspective, with particular attention to critical financial workflows.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and DevOps teams to embed quality throughout the development lifecycle and balance delivery speed with appropriate safeguards.
• Use AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or similar tools on a daily basis to create, maintain, and evolve testing solutions.
• Proactively identify quality risks, introduce improvements, and share testing practices and knowledge across the team.

Skills

QA architecture

CI/CD

Automation

AI testing

SDET

DevOps collaboration

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Lead QA Engineer (AI Native) in Canada to own the quality strategy for a complex AI-driven product, with critical financial flows, in a fully remote setting.

You will design end-to-end testing, implement AI-agent testing approaches, and collaborate with a small senior team to raise reliability and release safety.

This role emphasizes hands-on automation, scalable processes, and the thoughtful application of AI tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor.