QA Lead - Build Quality from Scratch for AI Hardware

Distance Technologies; Helsinki; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Distance Technologies seeks a QA Lead to build and own quality engineering at our Helsinki HQ, standing up a ground‑up QA function for groundbreaking technology. You will lead test strategy, automation, and release gates, ensuring safe ship readiness and embedding quality across runtime, tracking, and platform teams.

You will define the quality model end‑to‑end, from CI automation to hardware‑in‑the‑loop validation, with field and support issues feeding back into test cases and automation.

Qualifications

• Senior QA with ownership of test strategy for shipped products.
• Experience testing native/C++ systems and hardware‑dependent software.
• Ability to read logs and collaborate with developers on reproduction.

Responsibilities

• Lead test strategy, automation, and release gates for Distance Runtime.
• Define end‑to‑end quality model from CI coverage to visual regression on reference hardware.
• Own release QA for tagged builds and drive the defect workflow with engineering teams.

Job description

Distance Technologies seeks a QA Lead to build and own quality engineering at our Helsinki HQ, standing up a ground‑up QA function for groundbreaking technology. You will lead test strategy, automation, and release gates, ensuring safe ship readiness and embedding quality across runtime, tracking, and platform teams.

You will define the quality model end‑to‑end, from CI automation to hardware‑in‑the‑loop validation, with field and support issues feeding back into test cases and automation.