QA Lead
emagine QA Lead
Summary
QA Lead driving quality assurance across an Agile Release Train for a Nordic home-journey (mortgage) project: coordinating testing across multiple Scrum teams, raising test automation coverage, and managing release readiness. Requires 5+ years of QA leadership with tools like Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and Jira.
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.