Java QA Lead - Remote
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About the Role
YO IT Consulting is hiring a Java Quality Assurance Lead for a remote hourly contract role. You will oversee quality and trainer performance across Java AI training projects, review AI-generated Java code, and ensure adherence to quality standards.
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Responsibilities
- Quality monitoring: Spot check Java items, identify quality issues, provide feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues
- Code review: Evaluate AI generated Java code, Spring/backend snippets, debugging responses, algorithmic solutions, tests, architecture explanations, and step by step reasoning
- Trainer and QA communication: Update contributors on Discord about guideline changes, workflow updates, and Java specific review standards
- Question handling: Respond to questions around Java syntax, OOP design, collections, streams, concurrency, exceptions, Spring Boot, testing, security, and rubric interpretation
- Trainer/QA activation management: DM inactive contributors, track follow ups, and flag availability issues
- Documentation: Create and maintain Java style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, honeypots, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials
- Onboarding and training: Run onboarding/training calls for Java contributors
- Risk and security review: Flag insecure, misleading, non compilable, inefficient, or non production ready Java recommendations
- Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps and improve QA workflows
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional software engineering experience
- Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear technical feedback
- 3+ years of professional experience in Java development, backend engineering, enterprise software, JVM systems, code review, software QA, or technical mentoring
- Strong understanding of Java fundamentals such as OOP, collections, generics, streams, lambdas, exceptions, concurrency, annotations, JVM behavior, memory management, modules/packages, and modern Java features
- Ability to evaluate Java content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as non compilable code, incorrect logic, poor exception handling, unsafe concurrency, weak object modeling, inefficient algorithms, hallucinated APIs, or incomplete explanations
- Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, coding mentors, or QAs is strongly preferred
- Comfortable working in fast moving remote environments using Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and project management systems
- Highly organized and able to maintain style guides, trackers, FAQs, onboarding materials, honeypots, calibration tasks, and quality documentation
Full Job Posting
About This Role
- In this hourly, remote contractor role, you will work as a Java Quality Assurance Lead to oversee quality, consistency, and trainer performance across Java AI training projects.
- You will review AI generated Java code and trainer/QA work, evaluate output quality against project guidelines, provide precise written feedback, and ensure contributors follow expected quality standards.
- This role requires strong Java expertise, English communication skills, excellent attention to detail, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote technical teams.
Your Profile
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional software engineering experience.
- Strong grasp of English to follow guidelines, communicate with teams, and provide clear technical feedback.
- 3+ years of professional experience in Java development, backend engineering, enterprise software, JVM systems, code review, software QA, or technical mentoring.
- Strong understanding of Java fundamentals such as OOP, collections, generics, streams, lambdas, exceptions, concurrency, annotations, JVM behavior, memory management, modules/packages, and modern Java features.
- Ability to evaluate Java content against detailed rubrics and identify issues such as non compilable code, incorrect logic, poor exception handling, unsafe concurrency, weak object modeling, inefficient algorithms, hallucinated APIs, or incomplete explanations.
- Familiarity with common Java ecosystems and tools such as Spring Boot, Maven, Gradle, JUnit, Mockito, Hibernate/JPA, REST APIs, JDBC, IntelliJ/Eclipse, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD, logging, and profiling tools is preferred.
- Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, coding mentors, or QAs is strongly preferred.
- Comfortable working in fast moving remote environments using Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and project management systems.
- Highly organized and able to maintain style guides, trackers, FAQs, onboarding materials, honeypots, calibration tasks, and quality documentation.
- Experience with AI training, data annotation, LLM evaluation, code QA, or rubric based code review is a strong plus.
Key Responsibilities
- Quality monitoring: Spot check Java items, identify quality issues, provide feedback through DMs, and escalate recurring or critical issues.
- Code review: Evaluate AI generated Java code, Spring/backend snippets, debugging responses, algorithmic solutions, tests, architecture explanations, and step by step reasoning.
- Trainer and QA communication: Update contributors on Discord about guideline changes, workflow updates, and Java specific review standards.
- Question handling: Respond to questions around Java syntax, OOP design, collections, streams, concurrency, exceptions, Spring Boot, testing, security, and rubric interpretation.
- Trainer/QA activation management: DM inactive contributors, track follow ups, and flag availability issues.
- Documentation: Create and maintain Java style guides, trackers, FAQs, examples, honeypots, calibration tasks, and onboarding materials.
- Onboarding and training: Run onboarding/training calls for Java contributors.
- Risk and security review: Flag insecure, misleading, non compilable, inefficient, or non production ready Java recommendations.
- Process improvement: Identify recurring quality gaps and improve QA workflows.
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