PHP QA Lead - Remote

About the role

This role is a remote contractor position overseeing quality, consistency, and trainer performance across PHP AI training projects. The role involves reviewing AI-generated PHP code and trainer/QA work, evaluating output quality against project guidelines, providing precise written feedback, and ensuring contributors follow expected quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Spot-check PHP items and provide ongoing feedback through DMs.
• Review AI-generated PHP code, backend snippets, debugging responses, API examples, database logic, and tests.
• Update trainers/QAs on Discord about guideline changes and PHP-specific quality standards.
• Answer questions around PHP syntax, frameworks, runtime behavior, security, testing, and rubric interpretation.
• Activate inactive contributors through DMs and follow-up tracking.
• Create and maintain PHP documentation, style guides, examples, trackers, FAQs, honeypots, and onboarding materials.
• Run onboarding/training calls for PHP trainers and QAs.
• Flag insecure, outdated, misleading, or non-production-ready PHP recommendations.
• Identify recurring quality gaps and improve QA processes.

Requirements

Strong PHP expertise, English communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage quality workflows across remote technical teams are required. A bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, IT, or equivalent professional experience is preferred, along with 3+ years of professional PHP development, backend engineering, code review, QA, mentoring, or related workflows.

Qualifications

A strong grasp of English to follow guidelines and provide clear technical feedback, a strong understanding of PHP 8+, OOP, namespaces, Composer, autoloading, arrays, exceptions, type declarations, sessions, HTTP, REST APIs, database access, and error handling, and familiarity with Laravel, Symfony, PHPUnit, Pest, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD, static analysis tools, and PSR standards are preferred.

Skills

Experience leading or supporting remote teams of trainers, annotators, reviewers, engineers, or QAs is strongly preferred. Comfortable with Discord, Google Sheets, Google Docs, trackers, dashboards, GitHub, and PM systems, and highly organized with the ability to maintain documentation, style guides, trackers, FAQs, calibration tasks, and honeypots are essential.

Benefits

No immediate project for this role, but you will be among the first experts reached out to when relevant opportunities arise. This will also provide access to future projects available through our expert network.

Pay

The pay details are not specified at this time.

Schedule

The schedule is not specified at this time.