PHP QA Lead - Remote

YO IT Consulting; Finland; On-site; USD 55,104 - 82,656; Part time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting is seeking a PHP Quality Assurance Lead for a remote, hourly contractor role. You will oversee quality, guidelines, and trainer performance across PHP AI training projects, reviewing code and feedback, and ensuring accuracy and security.

The role emphasizes strong PHP expertise, English communication, and the ability to coordinate across remote teams. You will provide precise feedback, maintain documentation and onboarding materials, and help drive continuous QA improvements

Qualifications

• 3+ years of professional PHP development and code review.
• Strong English to provide clear feedback.
• Experience mentoring remote teams of trainers or QAs.
• Familiarity with PHP 8+ and OOP concepts.
• Knowledge of Laravel, Symfony, PHPUnit, and PSR standards preferred.

Responsibilities

• Spot-check PHP items and provide feedback via messages.
• Review AI-generated PHP code, backend snippets, and tests.
• Update trainers/QAs on guideline changes.
• Run onboarding/training calls for PHP trainers and QAs.
• Identify quality gaps and improve QA processes.

Skills

PHP development

QA/Code review

Remote team leadership

Documentation

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Laravel

Symfony

PHPUnit

Pest

Docker

GitHub

CI/CD

Job description

About This Role

In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a PHP Quality Assurance Lead to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across PHP AI training projects. You will review AI-generated PHP code and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure contributors follow expected quality standards. You will assess work for code correctness, runtime behavior, framework awareness, debugging accuracy, readability, maintainability, performance, security, test coverage, formatting, instruction-following, and rubric adherence. This role requires strong PHP expertise, English communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote technical teams. This role is a fast-growing AI Data Services company delivering training data for many of the world’s largest AI companies and foundation-model labs. Your PHP quality leadership will help ensure PHP training data is accurate, executable, secure, clearly explained, and aligned with client expectations.

There is no immediate project for this role; however, if qualified, you will be among the first experts we reach out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide you with access to future projects available through our expert network.

Selection process involves an AI interview, a domain-specific task, and an interview with a recruiter.

Job Title

PHP Quality Assurance Lead

Job Type

Contract

Location

Remote

Your Profile

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines and provide clear technical feedback.
• 3+ years of professional PHP development, backend engineering, code review, QA, mentoring, or related workflows.
• Strong understanding of PHP 8+, OOP, namespaces, Composer, autoloading, arrays, exceptions, type declarations, sessions, HTTP, REST APIs, database access, and error handling.
• Ability to evaluate PHP content and identify issues such as non-executable code, insecure SQL handling, weak validation, flawed logic, outdated syntax, hallucinated APIs, or incomplete explanations.
• Familiarity with Laravel, Symfony, PHPUnit, Pest, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD, static analysis tools, and PSR standards is preferred.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, or QAs is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and PM systems.
• Highly organized and able to maintain documentation, style guides, trackers, FAQs, calibration tasks, and honeypots.
• Experience with AI training, LLM evaluation, code QA, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

Key Responsibilities

• Spot-check PHP items and provide ongoing feedback through DMs.
• Review AI-generated PHP code, backend snippets, debugging responses, API examples, database logic, and tests.
• Update trainers/QAs on Discord about guideline changes and PHP-specific quality standards.
• Answer questions around PHP syntax, frameworks, runtime behavior, security, testing, and rubric interpretation.
• Activate inactive contributors through DMs and follow-up tracking.
• Create and maintain PHP documentation, style guides, examples, trackers, FAQs, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Run onboarding/training calls for PHP trainers and QAs.
• Flag insecure, outdated, misleading, or non-production-ready PHP recommendations.
• Identify recurring quality gaps and improve QA processes.