Remote Java QA Lead: Code Quality & Mentorship

YO IT Consulting; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 82,656 - 123,984; Full time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting is seeking a Java Quality Assurance Lead for a remote, hourly contractor role. You will oversee quality across Java AI training projects, review AI-generated code, evaluate against rubrics, and provide precise feedback to keep contributors aligned with client guidelines.

You will lead QA workflows with distributed teams, ensure code correctness, readability, performance, and security, and help define style guides and onboarding materials for Java contributors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT or equivalent experience.
• Excellent English to follow guidelines and provide clear feedback.
• 3+ years in Java development, backend engineering, or QA with mentoring.
• Strong Java fundamentals and modern features (OOP, streams, concurrency, JVM).
• Experience evaluating content against rubrics and identifying issues.

Responsibilities

• Quality monitoring: spot-check Java items, identify issues, give feedback via DMs, escalate issues.
• Code review: assess AI-generated Java code, Spring/code snippets, and explanations.
• Trainer/QA communication: update Discord with guideline changes and review standards.
• Question handling: answer Java syntax, OOP, collections, streams, concurrency and Spring topics.
• Activation management: DM idle contributors, track follow-ups, flag availability.
• Documentation: create Java style guides, trackers, FAQs, onboarding materials.
• Onboarding and training: run onboarding calls for Java contributors.
• Risk and security review: flag insecure or non-production-ready Java recommendations.
• Process improvement: identify quality gaps and improve QA workflows.

Skills

English proficiency

Java programming

Leadership / mentoring

Code review / QA

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / IT

Tools

Spring Boot

Maven

Gradle

JUnit

Mockito

Hibernate/JPA

REST APIs

JDBC

IntelliJ / Eclipse

Docker

GitHub

CI/CD

Logging / profiling tools

Job description

YO IT Consulting is seeking a Java Quality Assurance Lead for a remote, hourly contractor role. You will oversee quality across Java AI training projects, review AI-generated code, evaluate against rubrics, and provide precise feedback to keep contributors aligned with client guidelines.

You will lead QA workflows with distributed teams, ensure code correctness, readability, performance, and security, and help define style guides and onboarding materials for Java contributors.