QA Team Lead (Automation & AI)

📍Bulgaria-based candidates only At Perkbox, we’re on a mission to help every employee feel valued, and through our all-in-one platform, we deliver meaningful benefits, recognition, and wellbeing solutions that make a real difference to employees every day. But it starts with our own people. We’re building a culture that reflects what we offer: prioritising wellbeing, celebrating impact, and empowering growth. If you’re excited by purpose-driven work, fast-paced growth, and creating better employee experiences at scale, you’ll fit right in. As we continue to grow our Bulgaria-based team, we’re hiring an experienced QA Team Lead to own our automation and AI-driven testing strategy. You’ll lead and mentor a team of QA engineers while staying hands-on building automation frameworks, embedding AI-assisted testing into our workflows, and pushing our QA function from manual/scripted toward intelligent, self-maintaining test suites. You’ll own planning and execution of QA activities, define and enforce standards, integrate automated and AI-assisted checks into CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with stakeholders to deliver reliable, scalable testing outcomes at speed. testing outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own the automation strategy and roadmap, not just “lead QA engineers” — make it clear this is a builder role, not just people management
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted testing tools — e.g., AI-generated test cases from requirements/tickets, self-healing locators, AI-driven visual regression, flaky-test detection and triage
• Evaluate and pilot emerging AI/QA tooling and make build-vs-buy calls (ties to your own AI tooling strategy work at Perkbox)
• Reduce manual regression effort by expanding automation coverage and introducing AI-assisted test maintenance

Skills & Experience required:

• A minimum of 6+ years of experience in Automation QA, with at least 2 years as leading the QA strategy
• Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tooling to QA e.g., AI-generated test cases, self-healing test scripts, LLM-assisted test data generation, intelligent flaky-test detection, or AI code-review/test-coverage analysis tools
• Solid experience with Playwright and Maestro, plus test management tools (Testdino, PractiTest, or similar) and accessibility testing tools (Deque, Axe-core, or similar)
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipeline architecture and integration i.e. GitLab CI, GitHub actions, ArgoCD
• Proven track record designing and scaling test automation frameworks from scratch (not just maintaining existing suites)
• Comfortable prototyping scripts/tools with Python or TypeScript to extend AI-assisted testing pipelines

Work Mode & Salary Remote working within Bulgaria only. We do have an office in Plovdiv should you wish to work hybrid. Gross annual salary: €52,000 to €56,000 based on experience

Interview Process

• 45 minute interview with the Senior Talent Advisor
• 45 minute strategy and design interview with the Director of Engineering
• 60 minute technical interview with an Engineering Manager + Staff Engineer

Diversity & Inclusion At Perkbox, we are committed to being an inclusive employer and creating a fair workplace for all. We encourage applications from candidates across all backgrounds, circumstances, ages, disabilities, ethnicities, religions or beliefs, gender identities, or sexual orientations. We are happy to offer reasonable adjustments during our hiring process — just let us know, and we’ll make it work for you.