qa engineer (manual)

Prequel is a mobile photo and video editing app.

• Lead a team of 5 QA engineers, including capacity planning, 1:1s, performance reviews, IDPs, mentoring, and hiring
• Design, implement, and oversee QA processes and metrics aligned with business goals
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering to manage team priorities and adapt plans to changing business needs, ensuring QA does not become a bottleneck
• Build and execute a 3–6 month improvement roadmap covering AI adoption, automation, and reducing manual testing overhead, while maintaining team capacity for technical initiatives and learning
• Collect and analyze quality and delivery metrics, test process-improvement hypotheses, and pivot when they fail

• Proven experience managing a QA team, conducting performance discussions, developing team members, and hiring
• Ability to balance speed, cost, and quality under uncertainty while collaborating closely with Product and Engineering teams
• Ability to turn strategic ideas into an actionable roadmap, communicate the value of changes, and embed new practices into daily workflows
• Strong understanding of modern QA practices, including automation, CI/CD, risk-based testing, and quality gates
• Hands-on iOS and Android testing experience and deep familiarity with mobile release cycles, App Store / Google Play, feature flags, and A/B testing
• Solid grasp of Computer Science concepts
• Hands-on experience with traffic sniffers and gRPC
• Practical experience applying AI tools to QA processes
• English proficiency (B1)
• Russian proficiency (B1)

• Paid training and courses, online and offline lectures, workshops, and trainings
• Employees can attend major IT meetups
• High-quality onboarding and regular feedback throughout the probation period
• Performance reviews every 6 months, with support to improve performance
• Flexible work schedule and vacations and days off without extensive approvals
• Health insurance compensation
• Office in Montenegro with comfortable workspaces and lounge areas
• Relocation support, a full package of documents, and assistance obtaining a residence permit in Montenegro
• Premium access to the Prequel product