QA Automation Lead

esurance is a Swiss InsurTech offering a SaaS platform that connects SMEs, insurance providers, brokers, and business application providers. Founded in 2013, the company aims to make health insurance for small businesses hassle-free. The team works hybrid from Zürich or remotely across Europe, investing in growth through agile practices, real ownership, and a transparent Grading System.

• Strong track record (8+ years) designing and owning test automation frameworks in a modern, microservice environment.
• Experience defining QA standards, governance practices, and KPIs across multiple teams or workstreams.
• Ability to balance hands-on technical delivery with cross-team alignment and leadership-level reporting.

Nice to have:

• Experience building automation KPI dashboards and presenting quality metrics to management.
• Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD and integrating automated tests into the development pipeline.
• Background working in agile, distributed product organisations, ideally in a scale-up or InsurTech context.

• Define and establish a unified automation framework as the source of truth across all product teams and business services.
• Set, measure, and align automation KPIs (coverage, stability, execution time) with leadership and department heads, supported by accessible dashboards and clear reporting.
• Translate requirements into automated test strategies, test case designs, and scalable architectures and actively implement them.
• Govern and continuously refine test automation standards and integration practices across the full development lifecycle.
• Establish transparency via broadly accessible dashboards and reporting.
• Execute and oversee test activities including release validation and sign-off, with automated quality checks as the backbone.
• Contribute to framework refactoring and optimisation, raising the bar on test quality across teams.
• Mentor and guide QA Automation Engineers on tooling, patterns, and quality practices to enable optimal performance.

This Poland-based role offers remote flexibility in Poland only. Applicants must be located in Poland. The team meets in Poland for at least one week each quarter. This is not a globally remote role. The contract form is Umowa o Pracę (employment contract).