QA Lead

General info:

Model of work: hybrid (3 days work from office Gdańsk/ Gdynia/ Warsaw/ Łódź)

Type of contract: B2B, long-term cooperations

Rate: up to 155 PLN nett + vat/ hour

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

Main Responsibilities

• Leading the QA effort within the Agile Release Train (ART).

• Coordinating all testing types and levels per internal processes.

• Planning and executing QA and test management across functional and non-functional testing.

• Overseeing QA activities particularly in integration and end-to-end testing involving multiple Scrum teams.

• Driving continuous improvement and implementing best practices.

• Ensuring availability of testing environments and test data.

• Coaching team members for agility and excellence in deliverables.

• Communicating effectively with ART leadership and stakeholders.

• Contributing to release readiness assessments and metrics for quality sign-offs.

• Managing test scheduling aligned with release and deployment plans.

• Identifying and solving impediments, risks, and challenges in QA.

• Increasing test automation KPI and coverage.

• Aligning testing priorities with various stakeholders including product management and scrum teams.

Key Requirements

• Financial domain knowledge, preferably in the mortgage area.

• Over 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, plus automated CI/CD pipelines.

• Understanding of legacy systems.

• Excellent communication skills.

• Familiarity with project technologies: Java, Kafka, C#, SQL, Weblogic.

• Experience with QA tools: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Jira.

Nice to Have

• Professional experience with Spark and Scala.

• Background in DevOps concepts.

• Experience managing tests in a mainframe environment.

Other Details

• Location: Poland - Warsaw and Tricity, with 3 days office presence.

• Language Requirement: English.

• Project Environment: Agile, with a focus on continuous delivery and improvement.