Lead QA Engineer (AI native)

Lever, Inc.; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Vacation: 28 days

Wellness days

Training reimbursement

Referral bonuses

Training conferences

Health benefits

Home-office reimbursement

Recognition program

Autonomous small team

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a Lead QA Engineer (AI Native) to own the quality strategy for a high-stakes, AI-driven product. You will design an end-to-end testing pipeline, manage AI-assisted testing, and ensure release safety for critical financial workflows.

You will work in a small, senior team with substantial autonomy, applying AI agents daily to create and evolve testing solutions while collaborating with engineering and DevOps to raise quality across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and owning testing processes for large, complex products with high reliability requirements.
• Strong software engineering foundation including system architecture, backend services, and deployment processes.
• Hands-on experience building automated tests and integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Daily practical experience using AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) as part of software development.
• Genuine interest in AI-first development and adapting testing to AI-generated code.
• Ability to take ownership in a small, senior-level team with minimal directions.
• Fluent Russian.

Responsibilities

• Design and build end-to-end testing pipeline including pre-merge checks and production gates.
• Define the quality strategy for AI-generated code and ensure sustainable coverage as product scales.
• Maintain automated UI tests across browsers and devices, including AI-agent-driven testing.
• Evaluate and integrate external testing tools to improve reliability and efficiency.
• Own product reliability from a QA perspective with focus on financial workflows.
• Collaborate with Engineering and DevOps to embed quality across the lifecycle.
• Proactively identify risks, share testing practices, and drive improvements.

Skills

QA strategy

CI/CD

Automation

AI-tools usage

Russian language

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead QA Engineer (AI Native) based in Netherlands.

Join a small, senior engineering team building a product in an AI-first development environment.

You will take ownership of the quality strategy for a complex codebase where AI agents generate most of the code.

The product includes critical financial flows, making reliability, testing, and release safety central to the role.

You will design the end-to-end testing pipeline, from pre-merge validation through release and production gates.

The role combines hands-on test automation, engineering, AI-agent workflows, and continuous quality improvement.

As an individual contributor in a flat team, your impact will come through automation, scalable processes, and intelligent use of AI.

You’ll have substantial autonomy to define how quality is managed in an evolving AI-native engineering environment.

Accountabilities

• 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.

Requirements:

• Proven experience designing and owning testing processes for large, complex products with high reliability requirements, such as in a QA Architect, Senior QA/SDET, or senior engineering role with responsibility for testing strategy.
• 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.

Benefits:

• Fully remote, full-time opportunity.
• Initial pay level or salary range shared with candidates during the recruitment process and before employment begins.
• 28 calendar days of vacation per year.
• 7 wellness days per year that can be used for personal matters, rest, or recovery without taking sick leave.
• Referral bonuses of up to $5,000 for successful candidate recommendations.
• 50% reimbursement for professional training, international conferences, and professional meetings.
• Corporate discounts for English lessons.
• Health benefits, including reimbursement of up to $1,000 gross per year per employee where corporate medical insurance is not available. This can be used toward personal health insurance or eligible medical expenses for the employee and close relatives.
• Workplace support, including equipment and workplace essentials in offices or coworking locations. Where applicable, reimbursement of up to $1,000 gross once every three years is available for coworking costs or home-office equipment such as a desk, chair, and internet.
• Internal gamified recognition system where colleagues can award bonuses that can be exchanged for merchandise, team-building activities, massage certificates, and other rewards.
• Opportunity to work within a small, experienced, and highly autonomous engineering team focused on AI-first development.