QA Lead

Home journey is the full process a customer goes through when buying a home in the Nordics. The project involves working in a diverse, highly international environment with agile teams located in Nordic Countries, Poland, and India.

• Must have financial domain knowledge, preferably in the Mortgage area
• More than 5 years professional experience in Quality Assurance leadership roles managing various team sizes
• Experience coaching, personal and team development, and innovative problem-solving
• Experience with test management tools and managing functional, non-functional, E2E testing, test automation, test environment, and test data management
• Extensive experience planning and following up system tests, system integration tests, and user acceptance tests, including reporting via dashboards and presentations
• Documented experience as key leader in multiple projects, preferably with test automation background
• Professional experience with web and API testing, DevOps, and automated CI/CD pipelines is an advantage
• Knowledge and skills in Spark, Scala, and SAFe are considered very meritorious
• Understanding of legacy systems
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience with technologies: Java, Kafka, C#, Weblogic, SQL, mainframe (Cobol, ASP)
• QA tools used: Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, qTest, PowerBI, Jira
• Experience managing tests on mainframe environments is a big advantage

Nice to have:

• AI and test automation
• Non-functional testing
• Proactivity and drive

• Leading the QA effort within the Agile Release Train (ART) initiative
• Planning, implementing, executing, and reporting all required types and levels of testing per internal processes
• Managing QA and test activities including functional, non-functional, integration, and end-to-end tests across ~4-6 scrum teams in a SAFe setup
• Driving continuous improvement and best practices in testing
• Ensuring availability of test environments and test data
• Coaching and helping team members to enhance agility and delivery quality
• Communicating clearly at ART level and below
• Collaborating with ART leadership to mature testing efforts
• Contributing to release readiness assessment and providing quality metrics for sign-offs
• Ensuring timely end-to-end deliveries from a QA perspective
• Providing input on test approach, strategy, and tools
• Securing test enablers such as environments and data management
• Ensuring test evidence is provided before going live
• Aligning test scheduling with release and deployment plans
• Identifying and resolving QA impediments, risks, and challenges
• Proactively reporting test status, risk, progress, and improvement activities to IT and business stakeholders
• Increasing test automation KPIs and coverage including design, development, maintenance, and operations
• Aligning testing priorities with ART and Product Management, Business, Architects, Release Management, and Scrum Teams
• Escalating quality risks, dependencies, and impediments when necessary

Location in Poland: Warsaw and Tricity with requirement of 3 days office presence