You will be leading the transformation of the Quality Assurance function at Ink Innovation, reporting directly to the CTO.

Ink builds mission-critical aviation technology. This is not a traditional QA management role. Your mandate is to eliminate manual testing entirely and architect a fully AI-driven, automated quality engineering organization. You will embed intelligent quality from code commit to production deployment, with zero human-gated regression cycles. You will own the quality bar across the entire engineering organization and make quality a structural, measurable property of everything we ship.

Responsibilities

• Architect and lead the full transition from manual to AI-driven automated testing, targeting 100% automation coverage within 90 days, using platforms such as testRigor, Mabl, or Functionize.
• Build and own a fully automated CI/CD quality gate: every commit tested, every regression caught before staging — no human‑gated te...