Senior Software QA

About the role

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Software Quality Assurance professional to support the digitalization of patient care by ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of our software products.

In this role, you will be responsible for both manual and automated testing for desktop applications, contributing to automation framework development, test coverage, and continuous improvement of QA processes.

We are looking for candidates with strong technical capabilities, a proactive mindset, and the potential to grow into a technical leadership role, taking on greater responsibilities in automation strategy, technical guidance, and QA improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Software Quality Assurance & Testing

  • Analyse requirements and design, execute, and maintain test cases for functional, regression, integration, and exploratory testing.

  • Perform manual testing, investigate defects, and collaborate with developers to resolve issues.

  • Identify testing risks, perform impact analysis, and ensure adequate test coverage.

  • Maintain test documentation, defect reports, and test execution results.

  • Participate in Agile development activities and contribute to continuous QA process improvement.

• Test Automation

  • Develop, execute, and maintain automated test scripts.

  • Enhance existing automation frameworks to improve test coverage, reliability, reusability, and maintainability.

  • Troubleshoot automation failures and optimize test scripts.

  • Identify suitable test scenarios for automation and support integration with CI/CD pipelines.

• Technical Collaboration & Leadership Development

  • Take ownership of assigned testing activities and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.

  • Collaborate with team members to improve testing practices, tools, and test environments.

  • Share technical knowledge and provide guidance to other QA team members.

  • Demonstrate initiative and progressively take ownership of automation improvements, technical planning and QA best practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree: in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field.

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years in software quality assurance, including hands-on manual and automation testing.

• QA Expertise:

  • Strong understanding of QA methodologies and Agile development practices

  • Good experience in functional, regression, integration and exploratory testing

  • Strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

  • Ability to independently analyse requirements, identify risks and develop effective test strategies.

• Automation & CI/CD:

  • Hands-on experience with UI automation tools or frameworks such as TestComplete, Playwright, Selenium, Robot Framework, Appium, or equivalent.

  • Good understanding of automation framework design, reusable components and maintainable test scripts.

  • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and experience executing or integrating automated tests using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or equivalent.

  • Experience with desktop application automation, framework development, or CI/CD pipeline setup is an advantage.

  • Experience with Cloud, Docker containers & DevOps pipelines is a plus.

• Technical Skills:

  • Proficiency in Python (preferred), C#, Java, or other programming languages used for test automation

  • Experience with version control systems (e.g. Git) and defect tracking tools (e.g., JIRA).

  • Good communication, collaboration, and knowledge-sharing skills.

About us

Fleischhacker LLP is the overseas branch of Fleischhacker GmbH & Co. KG, a company specialising in medical and laboratory technology with substantial experience in international aid. Started as a medical software development company focusing on in-house medical software, from specialized medical connections to the management of workflows in hospitals and field medicine. Located in Schwerte, Germany, Fleischhacker GmbH & Co. KG predominantly supplies hospitals, GPs' surgeries, emergency services and corporations in Germany. Since 2007, Fleischhacker has been distributing its MediConnect® software – a comprehensive solution for the management of clinical processes in hospitals and in GPs' surgeries.