Remote PHP QA Lead — Quality & Training Champion

YO IT Consulting; North Carolina; On-site; USD 55,104 - 96,432; Part time

Job summary

YO IT Consulting is seeking a PHP Quality Assurance Lead for a remote, hourly contractor role to oversee quality across PHP AI training projects. You will review AI-generated PHP code and trainer output, provide precise written feedback, and ensure guidelines are followed across remote technical teams.

Ideal candidates have strong PHP 8+ experience, code QA, and mentoring skills, with excellent English communication and a detail-oriented approach to maintain quality standards and rubrics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines and provide clear technical feedback.
• 3+ years of professional PHP development, backend engineering, code review, QA, mentoring, or related workflows.
• Strong understanding of PHP 8+, OOP, namespaces, Composer, autoloading, arrays, exceptions, type declarations, sessions, HTTP, REST APIs, database access, and error handling.
• Ability to evaluate PHP content and identify issues such as non-executable code, insecure SQL handling, weak validation, flawed logic, outdated syntax, hallucinated APIs, or incomplete explanations.
• Familiarity with Laravel, Symfony, PHPUnit, Pest, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD, static analysis tools, and PSR standards is preferred.
• Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, or QAs is strongly preferred.
• Comfortable with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and PM systems.
• Highly organized and able to maintain documentation, style guides, trackers, FAQs, calibration tasks, and honeypots.
• Experience with AI training, LLM evaluation, code QA, or rubric-based review is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Spot-check PHP items and provide ongoing feedback through DMs.
• Review AI-generated PHP code, backend snippets, debugging responses, API examples, database logic, and tests.
• Update trainers/QAs on Discord about guideline changes and PHP-specific quality standards.
• Answer questions around PHP syntax, frameworks, runtime behavior, security, testing, and rubric interpretation.
• Activate inactive contributors through DMs and follow-up tracking.
• Create and maintain PHP documentation, style guides, examples, trackers, FAQs, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Run onboarding/training calls for PHP trainers and QAs.
• Flag insecure, outdated, misleading, or non-production-ready PHP recommendations.
• Identify recurring quality gaps and improve QA processes.

Skills

PHP

QA

Code review

Mentoring

Remote teamwork

Documentation

English

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/SE/IT

Tools

Laravel

Symfony

PHPUnit

Pest

MySQL/PostgreSQL

Redis

Docker

GitHub

CI/CD

PSR standards

Job description

YO IT Consulting is seeking a PHP Quality Assurance Lead for a remote, hourly contractor role to oversee quality across PHP AI training projects. You will review AI-generated PHP code and trainer output, provide precise written feedback, and ensure guidelines are followed across remote technical teams.

Ideal candidates have strong PHP 8+ experience, code QA, and mentoring skills, with excellent English communication and a detail-oriented approach to maintain quality standards and rubrics.