QA Lead

KnowledgeCity; Pakistan; On-site; PKR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

KnowledgeCity in Pakistan is seeking a QA Engineer responsible for ensuring high quality standards in product releases. The successful candidate will own the QA Engineer agent, defining automated quality gate criteria and conducting quality audits.

This role blends hands-on QA expertise with leadership in automation processes and AI-native skills, ensuring that products meet the highest quality standards before reaching customers.

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA expertise with a focus on automation.
• Experience in AI-native operational skills.
• Proven leadership in QA processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce quality standards across all products.
• Own the QA Engineer agent for test case management.
• Conduct quality audits and trend analysis.

Job description

Ensures the products that ship to customers meet a high quality standard. Owns the QA Engineer agent — the AI that writes test cases, executes tests, creates unit tests, performs regression testing, and validates that implementations meet acceptance criteria. Defines the quality gate standards that determine whether a release is ready. Does not test manually — the QA Engineer agent does that.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Standards

• Define and enforce quality standards across all products
• Define the automated quality gate criteria for releases
• Establish test coverage requirements and testing strategy
• Conduct quality audits and trend analysis across products

QA Engineer Agent Ownership

• Own the QA Engineer agent — train and improve its skills to catch defects, write comprehensive tests, and validate requirements
• Define testing templates, coverage requirements, and defect classification standards
• Improve agent skills to reduce false positives and increase defect detection rates

Quality Governance

• Resolve quality disputes and edge cases that the QA agent cannot handle
• Collaborate with Product Engineers when quality issues require product decisions
• Track quality metrics: defect escape rate, test coverage, regression pass rates
• Collaborate with Software Architect on code quality vs. test quality intersection

Skills and Qualifications

This role requires a blend of hands‑on QA expertise (from the QA Engineer track), automation leadership (from the QA Automation Lead track), and AI‑native operational skills. The table below consolidates requirements across all three dimensions.