Director of QA & Automation — AI-Driven Quality Leader

Hyperproof; Edison (NJ); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and equity package

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Unlimited PTO Policy

Collaborative, fast-paced culture

Job summary

1Kosmos is seeking a Director of Quality Assurance to lead QA strategy, processes, and a world-class team across web, mobile, API, and biometric components. You will embed quality into every stage of the development lifecycle and partner with engineering, product, and operations to raise release confidence.

In this role, you will define standards, automation strategies, and metrics, build scalable automation, and mentor a distributed QA workforce, owning the quality gate for releases and KPIs

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software QA experience, including at least 5+ years of hands-on QA leadership at the Head of QA or Director level in high-growth B2B SaaS or cybersecurity.
• A proven record of building and scaling QA teams in fast-paced environments.
• Deep technical credibility across QA methodologies, test automation frameworks, and performance testing, spanning both automation and manual testing.
• Domain fluency in identity verification and authentication, with a genuine customer mindset.
• A working toolset: Selenium, scripting languages, Node.js, JMeter, CI/CD pipelines, and API integrations, in cloud-based architectures (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Real, hands-on AI fluency. You already use AI copilots daily to write tests, generate test cases, and accelerate QA work.
• Experience in SaaS or enterprise software environments, ideally cybersecurity or identity.
• Background in AI/ML product QA or identity verification software testing.
• Experience managing offshore or distributed QA teams.
• Familiarity with security testing and regulatory compliance requirements.
• Depth in performance, load, and scalability testing tools.

Responsibilities

• QA strategy and execution across functional, regression, performance, and security testing for a platform that spans web, mobile, API, and biometric components and thousands of document types and integrations.
• Standards and best practices: Establish and enforce quality standards, test plans, and best practices across all projects, and make sure requirements are testable and aligned with customer expectations.
• Automation at scale: Design, build, and scale automated test platforms integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Manual QA, applied with judgment: Own the manual testing that still matters and decide what gets automated and what does not.
• Team leadership: Lead, mentor, and grow the distributed QA team, including recruitment and performance management.
• Cross-functional partnership: Build trust with Customer Success, engineering, and leadership; QA as trusted partner.
• Release quality: Own the quality gate for releases so the company ships with confidence.
• Metrics and accountability: Define KPIs and report on defect density, escape rates, automation velocity, release stability, and on-time delivery.

Skills

Software QA

QA leadership

Automation testing

Selenium

Node.js

JMeter

CI/CD pipelines

API integrations

Tools

Selenium

Node.js

JMeter

CI/CD pipelines

API integrations

Job description

1Kosmos is seeking a Director of Quality Assurance to lead QA strategy, processes, and a world-class team across web, mobile, API, and biometric components. You will embed quality into every stage of the development lifecycle and partner with engineering, product, and operations to raise release confidence.

In this role, you will define standards, automation strategies, and metrics, build scalable automation, and mentor a distributed QA workforce, owning the quality gate for releases and KPIs