# Senior QA Lead

**Company:** [Giga](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/giga)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, California
**Role:** QA Engineering
**Salary:** $160k – $230k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Test Planning, Qa Automation, Conversational Ai Testing, Voice Ai, Chatbots, Regression Testing, Bug Triage, Release Management, Team Management, Edge Case Testing
**Posted:** 2026-02-20

> Leads QA for AI agent platform, building test strategies, validating voice/chat/email agents for accuracy and edge cases, manages distributed offshore team, and owns release quality gates in fast-paced environment. Requires 7+ years QA experience with non-deterministic products.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Define test plans, acceptance criteria, and coverage matrices for new features across voice, chat, and email AI agents
- Test AI agent conversations for accuracy, tone, hallucinations, and edge cases
- Own QA gate for releases, coordinate test cycles, manage regression suites, and sign off on production readiness
- Manage distributed QA team across SF and offshore locations — assign work, review results, set standards
- Triage and report bugs: classify, prioritize, document defects for engineering
- Build QA processes, workflows, and documentation to scale testing

## Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in QA or quality assurance, leading test efforts for complex products
- Experience managing or leading distributed QA teams across time zones
- Excellent at test planning, identifying edge cases
- Experience testing conversational AI, voice systems, chatbots, or non-deterministic products
- Clear, organized communicator with detailed bug reports and test plans
- Comfortable building QA function from scratch, defining processes and tools

## Nice-to-Haves
- Excitement about AI and QA for novel products

## Perks & Benefits
- Catered lunch daily
- Dinner stipend
- $150/month wellness benefit (gym, fitness classes, mental health)
- 401(k) plan
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage

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