QA Director

About the Role

Join Alvys, an early-stage company ambitiously transforming the $800B US freight industry. As the Director of QA, you will be responsible for defining and executing the quality assurance vision across our product suite. You will lead a diverse team of QA professionals—both human testers and AI-driven resources—implement effective testing strategies, and ensure consistent, high-quality software releases. This role emphasizes balancing manual and automated testing while continuously improving processes to align with Alvys' engineering and business goals.

You’ll collaborate closely with engineering, product, and customer success teams to ensure our software is reliable, performant, and meets customer needs. This position provides the opportunity to grow and mentor a talented QA team, champion advanced AI-enabled testing methodologies, and play a key role in revolutionizing transportation logistics.

Industry Insight

Transportation logistics is a complex and fragmented domain ripe for technological transformation. As Director of QA, your leadership will ensure the reliability of technology that automates and streamlines a sector moving trillions of dollars in goods annually.

About Alvys

Alvys is on a mission to revolutionize transportation logistics. Combining hands-on industry expertise with a world-class technical vision, we’re building a multi-tenant SaaS platform that’s becoming indispensable for transportation companies.

Our Principles

• Engineering Excellence: We embrace a balanced approach of practical and theoretical techniques to deliver superior code quality and architecture.
• End-to-End Ownership: If you build it, you own it—teams are fully responsible for their code and its performance.
• Blameless Culture: We learn from mistakes collaboratively, focusing on growth rather than finger-pointing.
• Core Values: Trust, transparency, and fairness underlie everything we do, shaping the solutions we build for an often fragmented industry.

Tech Stack

We leverage a combination of modern testing tools and frameworks, including Cypress and WebDriver for automated testing, ensuring our systems are reliable, scalable, and secure. The ability to scale and optimize our test automation infrastructure is a key part of the role.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, with at least 3 years in a management or leadership role.
• Strong track record using Cypress and WebDriver for automated testing.
• Proven experience building and managing QA teams, with emphasis on mentorship and development.
• Demonstrated success creating and executing test strategies for complex software systems, balancing manual and automated testing.
• Experience collaborating with engineering and product teams to define testing processes, metrics, and best practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a dedication to delivering high-quality software.

Preferred Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage both human testers and AI-enabled testing teams or tools.
• Experience with AI-driven testing frameworks or ML-based QA solutions.
• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Proficiency in performance and load testing tools.
• Strong knowledge of industry-standard tools for bug tracking, test case management, and reporting (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps, TestRail).
• Excellent communication skills for diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a geographically diverse team of QA engineers, including AI-driven testing resources, ensuring the quality of Alvys’ products.
• Define and implement a comprehensive QA strategy covering manual, automated, and AI-assisted testing across multiple teams and projects.
• Oversee automated test development using Cypress and WebDriver, and guide adoption of AI-based testing solutions.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and customer success to set clear quality expectations and align on deliverables.
• Integrate automated and AI-assisted tests into the CI/CD pipeline to provide rapid feedback on code stability.
• Mentor and develop QA team members, fostering technical growth and career progression.
• Champion quality best practices across the organization, promoting standardization in testing, documentation, and release management.
• Identify and proactively mitigate risks related to software releases, ensuring defects are caught early.
• Continuously monitor and enhance testing processes to remain efficient, scalable, and in tune with business needs.