AI-First QA Architect - Remote

Social Discovery Ventures; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Vacation 28 days

Wellness days 7

Referral bonus

Training reimbursement

English lessons discount

Health benefits up to $1k

Workplace stipend

Gratitude bonuses

Job summary

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is seeking a Lead QA Engineer (AI Native) to own testing strategy for an AI-driven product with significant financial implications. You will join a small senior team and guide end-to-end quality, using automation and AI agents to shape robust verification.

This remote, individual contributor role emphasizes ownership, fast decision-making, and collaboration with engineers and DevOps to balance speed and safety. Fluency in Russian is required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience building and owning testing processes in large, complex products with high reliability requirements.
• Strong engineering background: understanding of system architecture, backend services, CI/CD and deployment processes.
• Hands-on experience with test automation and integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Daily use of AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar) as a core part of your work.
• High autonomy and ownership: ability to take loosely defined problems, propose solutions and drive them to completion without detailed specs.
• Willlingness to work as a hands‑on individual contributor in a small senior team.
• Fluent Russian.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the end-to-end testing pipeline for a product largely written by AI agents: pre-merge checks, nightly test runs, release and production gates.
• Define the quality strategy for AI-generated code: where risks are highest, what coverage is needed, and how to keep it sustainable at scale.
• Set up continuous automated UI testing across browsers and mobile devices, including AI-agent-driven testing; evaluate, choose and integrate external tools and services.
• Own product reliability from a technical perspective, with special focus on critical financial flows.
• Work closely with engineers and DevOps to embed quality into the development process and find the right trade-offs between speed and safety.
• Use AI agents daily to create, maintain and evolve tests and testing tooling.
• Drive quality initiatives proactively and share best practices with the team.

Skills

QA architecture

CI/CD

Test automation

AI-first testing

SDET

Ownership

Remote collaboration

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Cursor

Job description

Social Discovery Group (SDG) is seeking a Lead QA Engineer (AI Native) to own testing strategy for an AI-driven product with significant financial implications. You will join a small senior team and guide end-to-end quality, using automation and AI agents to shape robust verification.

This remote, individual contributor role emphasizes ownership, fast decision-making, and collaboration with engineers and DevOps to balance speed and safety. Fluency in Russian is required.