Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Test/QA
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Salary
- from 90.000 € Gross/Year
- Location
- Graz, Linz, Wels, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Würzburg
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you develop an effective Shift Left approach to integrate quality early in the development process, lead test automation, and optimize test quality with AI-driven methods.
Your role in the team
- You work together with our engineering teams to develop an effective Shift Left approach. Quality is thus embedded early in the development process and made measurable through technical Quality Gates as well as organization-wide release criteria.
- You make AI an integral part of our QA practice. Your teams use AI intentionally for creating, analyzing, and optimizing tests. This way, you continuously improve our test quality.
- You are responsible for the strategic direction of our test automation. You shape the roadmap and tool strategy with technical input from your teams. The final decisions are made with a focus on scalability, stability, and impact.
- You ensure that automated tests are reliably integrated into our CI/CD processes. You develop Performance Testing and Peak Load Testing as a standard quality benchmark. This keeps our systems reliable even under high load.
- You define and are responsible for meaningful quality metrics. Your prioritization is based on business risk, the criticality of our systems, and the added value for our customers.
- You develop team leads professionally and methodologically. The goal is for them to independently operationalize QA standards and make well-informed decisions within their teams.
- You work collaboratively with Engineering Managers, developers, Product, and external partners. In our flat hierarchies, you bring perspectives together, create clarity, and ensure that quality decisions are sustainable.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- You have a deep understanding of modern test automation. Frameworks, test architecture, and integration into CI/CD processes are part of your professional foundation.
- You communicate confidently in German and English. Proficiency in German at C1 level or higher is important, as it is the working language at the leadership level. You use English confidently at B2 level or higher within the international team.
- You are ready to be regularly present with your teams on-site. This also includes our colleagues in Spain. It is clear to you that distributed teams need proximity, presence, and genuine exchange.
Experience
- You bring at least 8 years of experience in QA or Quality Engineering environments. During this time, you have not only overseen quality but actively contributed to its further development.
- You have at least 4 years of leadership experience, ideally including managing team leads. You have established, developed, or realigned QA structures. Experience in e-commerce, retail, or platform contexts is a plus.
- You have practical experience with Shift Left in QA. API testing before UI testing, tests in CI before code review, and early involvement of testers in the discovery phase are part of your established practice.
- You have a clear stance on AI in QA. This is either based on your own practical experience or on a well-founded engagement with the possibilities and limitations of the topic.
- You work KPI-oriented and have experience in introducing new tools and processes in larger teams. In doing so, you combine technical expertise with a good sense for change.
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What we offer
- Health & Wellbeing: Free coffee, tea, beverages, fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as discounted meals in the cafeteria or meal allowances (location-dependent). Modern workplaces for all needs.
- Culture & Development: We value personal responsibility, flat hierarchies, and open feedback. We foster a team spirit where support and collaboration are highly regarded. Enjoy 2 Learning Days per quarter, an internal learning campus, and external development opportunities.
- Flexible Work-Life Balance: Enjoy flexible working hours and various options for remote work.
- Celebrations & Milestones: Team events and special acknowledgments for birthdays & anniversaries.
- Numerous additional benefits depending on your actual place of work, such as Wiener Linien ticket, remote working, meal vouchers, team events, flexible working hours, chillout area, fruit basket, coffee, tea, and much more.
- Excellent personalized development and training opportunities to grow together with the role and department.
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XXXldigital
Wels, Wien
Together, we at xxxldigital are working towards the future of furniture retail. Not only do we work in teams, but we also live by them - through our unity, sense of community and willingness to learn. We contribute our own ideas and actively shape the future on all digital touchpoints.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Full Remote, Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Advertising, Marketing, PR, Trade, Internet, IT, Telecommunication
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Director Software Quality & Automation
- Salary
- from 90.000 € Gross/Year
- Location
- Graz, Linz, Wels, Vienna, Berlin, Munich, Würzburg
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
