QA Lead / QA Coordinator
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine Function: Engineering / Product Reports to: Engineering Leadership, with a close working relationship with Product Role type: Full-time, in person Language requirements: English B2 required, Ukrainian optional Reservation: We are able to discuss reservations for critical candidates with significant experience.
About Occam Industries
Occam Industries is a British-Ukrainian MilTech company building a hardware-agnostic software for next-generation defence capabilities.
We work directly with leading Ukrainian OEMs to bring autonomy to the frontline at scale — turning existing unmanned platforms into autonomous systems. Our technology is already deployed by Ukrainian brigades in combat, helping operators hit targets.
We believe in strength for peace. Ukraine has proved that a free society can defend its freedom when its citizens are willing and able to defend it. OCCAM exists to give those citizens the capability to do so.
We are based in Kyiv and well funded, giving us the resources to build and deploy at speed.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced QA Lead / QA Coordinator to take ownership of software quality across our development and release process.
This is not primarily a manual testing role. You will be responsible for ensuring that software reaches a consistently high standard before it is released, coordinating testing across engineering teams, maintaining clear quality gates and acting as the final QA sign-off before software is considered production-ready.
We are particularly interested in someone who has built their QA experience in the technology sector, where structured software development, release management, defect management and engineering quality practices are well established.
You will work closely with Product Managers, Engineering Managers, developers and operational testing teams to make sure that what we release works as intended, has been tested appropriately and has clear evidence behind the decision to release it.
What You’ll Own
Quality Assurance
Own the overall QA process across software development and releases.
Define and maintain appropriate QA standards, test processes and release quality gates.
Ensure acceptance criteria are clear, testable and understood before development is considered complete.
Review test evidence and ensure appropriate functional, regression and integration testing has taken place.
Identify recurring quality issues and work with Engineering to address their underlying causes.
Ensure bugs are appropriately prioritised, tracked and resolved.
Provide the final QA approval that software is of sufficient quality to release.
Release Management
Coordinate software releases across Product, Engineering and testing teams.
Maintain visibility of what is included in each release and its current readiness.
Confirm that required testing, defect resolution and documentation have been completed before release.
Run release readiness reviews where appropriate.
Prevent software from being released where agreed quality standards have not been met.
Maintain a clear record of release decisions, known issues and accepted risks.
Support rollback, hotfix and incident processes when releases do not perform as expected.
Jira & Engineering Workflow
Use Jira as the primary system for tracking development, testing, defects and release readiness.
Ensure tickets progress through the engineering workflow correctly and that QA states accurately represent reality.
Maintain clear relationships between stories, bugs, testing activity and releases.
Create and maintain dashboards or reporting that give Product and Engineering clear visibility of quality.
Ensure defects include sufficient information, reproduction steps, severity and supporting evidence.
Help improve Jira workflows where changes would make engineering and QA processes more effective.
Coordination
Coordinate QA activity across multiple engineering teams and
