Prequel is a mobile photo and video editor with 85+ million downloads.
Team size — 150. Founders — Timur Khabirov and Serge Aliseenko.
Relocation support to Montenegro.
Responsibilities
Team Management: Lead a team of 5 QA engineers (capacity planning, 1:1s, performance reviews, IDPs, mentoring, and hiring).
Process Optimization: Design, implement, and oversee QA processes and metrics aligned with business goals.
Delivery & Prioritization: Collaborate with Product and Engineering to manage team priorities and quickly adapt plans to shifting business needs, ensuring QA never becomes a bottleneck.
QA Function Development: Build and execute a 3–6 month improvement roadmap (AI adoption, automation, reducing manual testing overhead) while maintaining a team capacity buffer for technical initiatives and learning.
Data-Driven Approach: Collect and analyze quality and delivery metrics, test hypotheses to improve processes, and stay agile enough to pivot quickly when a hypothesis fails.
Requirements
People Management: Proven track record of managing a QA team, conducting performance discussions, developing individual team members, and hiring.
Stakeholder & Process Management: Ability to balance speed, cost, and quality under uncertainty while working in close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams.
Change Management: Ability to translate strategic ideas into an actionable roadmap, effectively communicate the value of changes, and embed new practices into daily workflows.
QA & Mobile Expertise: Strong understanding of modern QA practices (automation, CI/CD, risk-based testing, quality gates), hands-on iOS and Android testing experience, and deep familiarity with mobile release cycles (App Store / Google Play, feature flags, A/B testing).
Technical Background & AI: Solid grasp of Computer Science concepts, hands-on experience with traffic sniffers and gRPC, and practical experience applying AI tools to QA processes.
Required languages: English, Russian.
Conditions
Professional development – paid training and courses, online / offline lectures, workshops and trainings.
Adaptation – a high-quality onboarding process.
Career development – review every 6 months.
Balance between work and personal life.
Health – health insurance compensation.
Office space – a cool office in Montenegro.
Relocation – full package of documents and help with obtaining a residence permit.
Prequel+ – premium access to the entire Prequel product.