What are you working on?

- The name of the project(s): Happy Color
- Platforms: Mobile

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

Product quality ownership

- Own the product-level quality strategy and its implementation roadmap.

- Define release-readiness criteria and provide an independent assessment of product quality.

- Take responsibility for acceptance testing of the product as a whole.

- Validate cross-domain flows across mobile clients, backend services, analytics, advertising, consent, payments, and other integrations.

- Identify systemic product risks that cannot be detected within a single engineering domain.

- Require teams to improve builds, test results, documentation, or other quality artifacts when they do not meet agreed standards.

Quality Engineering transformation

- Lead the transition from predominantly manual testing toward a balanced Quality Engineering model.

- Build sustainable E2E and regression automation for critical product scenarios.

- Introduce quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.

- Improve test environments, test data, reporting, and automation stability.

- Introduce risk-based testing, shift-left practices, and appropriate AI-assisted QA tools.

- Reduce regression time and release uncertainty without sacrificing product quality.

Product Quality team leadership

- Build and lead the Product Quality team responsible for:

- product acceptance;

- critical regression;

- E2E testing;

- user-experience validation;

- E2E and regression automation.

- Hire, develop, and mentor manual QA, automation, and SDET engineers.

- Assess existing QA engineers and define appropriate development paths based on skills, motivation, and demonstrated results.

- Establish clear ownership, expectations, and measurable outcomes for every team member.

Matrix quality leadership

- Coordinate the quality function across Backend QA, Client QA, and other QA.

- Work with engineering leaders to ensure that component-level testing is completed before Product Quality acceptance.

- Establish common quality standards, metrics, and audit practices across QA teams.





- Conduct regular quality reviews and identify gaps in domain-level testing.

- Ensure that standards reflect the needs of all QA directions rather than one specific platform or domain.

- Act as the technical owner of QA standards or appoint and support an appropriate Quality Engineering Technical Lead.

Data-driven quality management

- Define and monitor meaningful quality indicators, including:

- escaped defects;

- critical regression coverage;

- automation stability and flaky-test rate;

- regression duration;

- release-blocking defects;

- defects at system boundaries;

- production and support trends.

- Use analytics, support cases, incidents, and production signals to identify areas requiring additional coverage.

- Present product-quality risks and improvement progress to engineering and product leadership.

What kind of professional are we looking for?

- 5+ years of experience in QA or Quality Engineering.

- 3+ years in a QA leadership or Quality Engineering leadership role.

- Strong product mindset, with the ability to identify user, business, and systemic risks—not just verify compliance with documented requirements.

- Proven experience transforming manual testing into an engineering-driven quality function.

- Experience building or significantly improving E2E and regression automation.

- Strong understanding of test automation architecture, CI/CD integration, test environments, and quality gates.

- Ability to review automation approaches, framework architecture, code quality, and engineering practices.

- Experience testing high-scale mobile applications or games.

- Strong knowledge of:

- mobile application testing;

- backend and API testing;

- distributed and cross-system scenarios;

- analytics validation,



including Firebase;

- databases and SQL-based platforms;

- advertising and attribution systems such as Adjust or AppsFlyer;

- release and production quality management.

- Experience working with Android Studio, Xcode, Charles Proxy or similar tools, API clients, and mobile automation frameworks.

- Strong leadership skills and the ability to influence teams in a matrix structure.

- Ability to make difficult quality decisions and clearly explain product risks.

- Russian — fluent.

- English — Intermediate or higher.

Nice to Have:

- Experience with ad-driven mobile products.

- Experience testing monetization, consent, GDPR/CCPA, payments, or analytics.

- Experience building SDET or automation teams.

- Experience applying AI tools to testing, test design, defect analysis, or QA operations.

- Experience working with incident, support, and production data.

What Success Looks Like:

During the first months, the Head of Quality Engineering is expected to:

- establish the Product Quality function and its responsibilities;

- define the interaction between Backend QA, Client QA and Product Quality;

- introduce transparent product-acceptance criteria;

- identify critical E2E and regression scenarios;

- create a prioritized automation roadmap;

- launch measurable improvements to automation, CI quality gates, and regression speed;

- provide leadership with a transparent view of product readiness and quality risks.

What are the conditions and bonuses?

What We Offer:

- Competitive salary and benefits package.

- Opportunity to work with a talented and passionate team in a creative and dynamic environment.

- Flexible working hours and remote/office work options.

- Career growth and professional development opportunities.

- A fun and inclusive company culture that celebrates diversity and creativity.

The selection process

Thank you for applying! If your qualifications match our expectations, we will provide you with feedback within 7 days. We appreciate your interest in our company.

📌 Head of QA (Product Quality) (Italia)
🏢 X-FLOW
📍 Italia