Lead QA Engineer

Location: Warsaw, Gdańsk, or Gdynia

Work Model: Hybrid (3 days per week from the office)

Rate: 125 PLN/h (B2B)

About the Project

You will join a large-scale, highly international project in the Nordic financial sector focused on the Home journey — the complete process a customer goes through when buying a home in the Nordics.

In this role, you will lead QA efforts within an Agile Release Train (ART), collaborating with team members in Poland, the Nordic countries, and India.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA efforts: Drive the QA strategy within the ART across 4–6 Scrum teams, with a strong focus on integration and end-to-end (E2E) testing.
• Test management: Plan, run, and manage functional and non-functional testing in a SAFe Agile release train setup.
• Process compliance: Ensure required testing types and levels are planned, executed, and reported according to internal processes.
• Continuous improvement: Drive best practices, secure test enablers such as environments and data management, and increase test automation KPIs and coverage.
• Leadership and coaching: Act as a sparring partner to ART leadership, address testing skill gaps, and coach team members to support high-quality agile deliveries.
• Stakeholder communication: Proactively report test status, quality metrics, and risks to IT and business stakeholders; align priorities across Product Management, Architects, Release Management, and Scrum Teams.
• Release readiness: Assess release readiness, secure test evidence before go-live, and align test schedules with deployment plans.

Requirements

Must-haves:

• 5+ years of professional experience in a QA leadership role, including coaching and developing teams.
• Strong financial-domain knowledge, preferably within mortgages.
• Experience leading QA throughout the full project lifecycle, preferably in a test automation environment.
• Extensive experience with test management tools, functional and non-functional testing, E2E testing, test automation, and test data management.
• Expertise in planning and following up on system testing, integration testing, and UAT, including dashboard and presentation reporting.
• Excellent communication skills and a solid understanding of legacy systems.
• Familiarity with Java, Kafka, C#, Weblogic, SQL, and mainframe technologies including Cobol and ASP.
• Familiarity with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, qTest, PowerBI, and Jira.

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience managing tests in a mainframe environment.
• Experience with web/API testing, DevOps, and automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Spark, Scala, and SAFe methodology.
• Experience using AI in test automation.

What We Offer

• B2B agreement.
• Rate: 125 PLN/h.
• Hybrid work model.