QA Lead

Work model

Hybrid, with 3 days per week in the office in Gdańsk, Gdynia, Warsaw or Łódź.

Contract and rate

B2B, long-term cooperation.

Up to 155 PLN net + VAT per hour.

Summary

The QA Lead will spearhead quality assurance initiatives within a large project, focusing on the home journey for customers in the Nordics and ensuring robust testing practices across multiple teams and geographical locations.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the QA effort within the Agile Release Train (ART).
• Coordinate all testing types and levels according to internal processes.
• Plan and execute QA and test management across functional and non-functional testing.
• Oversee QA activities, particularly integration and end-to-end testing involving multiple Scrum teams.
• Drive continuous improvement and implement best practices.
• Ensure the availability of testing environments and test data.
• Coach team members for agility and excellence in deliverables.
• Communicate effectively with ART leadership and stakeholders.
• Contribute to release-readiness assessments and quality sign-off metrics.
• Manage test scheduling in line with release and deployment plans.
• Identify and resolve QA impediments, risks and challenges.
• Increase test automation KPIs and coverage.
• Align testing priorities with product management, Scrum teams and other stakeholders.

Key Requirements

• Financial-domain knowledge, preferably in the mortgage area.
• More than 5 years of experience in a Quality Assurance leadership role.
• Experience with test management tools and managing diverse testing types.
• Documented leadership in various projects, ideally in automation environments.
• Experience with web and API testing, as well as automated CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of legacy systems.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Familiarity with Java, Kafka, C#, SQL and Weblogic.
• Experience with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright and Jira.

Nice to Have

• Professional experience with Spark and Scala.
• Background in DevOps concepts.
• Experience managing tests in a mainframe environment.

Other Details

• English required.
• Agile project environment focused on continuous delivery and improvement.