Senior QA & Test Automation Lead (Ai)

TL;DR

Senior QA & Test Automation Lead (AI): Shaping and advancing quality assurance and test automation landscapes for customers, as well as hirify.global’s services and accelerators. Focus on applying AI-assisted approaches across the entire Test Life Cycle (TLC) to drive efficiency, quality, and maintainability.

Location: Remote (or from the Vienna office)

Salary: € 5.500 - € 8.000 gross monthly, depending on qualifications and experience

Company

hirify.global helps future-proof businesses through digital engineering and helps clients become human-centric, digital-first organizations.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor automation and QA teams in geographically distributed environments.
• Consult customers on test strategies, automation approaches, processes, and best practices.
• Apply AI-assisted approaches across the entire Test Life Cycle (TLC).
• Create test concepts and test automation concepts, estimating test efforts, planning and tracking test & automation activities.
• Architect, design, implement, and evolve test automation frameworks and strategies for web, mobile, API, and desktop applications.
• Design and deliver trainings and knowledge transfer on QA and test automation topics.

Requirements

• 10+ years of hands-on consulting experience in client projects covering end-to-end test automation, including several years in a senior, lead, or architect role
• Strong experience in test management, test strategies, test planning, control, KPIs, and risk management.
• Hands-on experience in two or more programming languages, such as Java, C#, Python, Typescript/JavaScript, or similar
• Proven experience with a broad range of test automation and test management tools (eg TestRail, Zephyr, Xray) including: Playwright and other tools for Web & mobile (eg Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Detox), API(eg Rest Assured, Postman), BDD(eg Cucumber, SpecFlow), L &P (eg k6, JMeter), low-/no-code(eg Tosca, UIPath) and desktop UI(UIPath, Tosca, UFT, TestComplete)
• Experience in applying AI-assisted tools across the test lifecycle (TLC)
• Experience with modern development and DevOps tooling to integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Docker for containerized test execution.
• Business fluent in German and English

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible Working Time - Always adapting to your current needs
• Flexible Working Place - "Work from anywhere" mindset (remote or from the Vienna office)
• Corporate Health - Because we care for you
• Social Events - We get together and have fun
• Unique Corporate Culture - In our hearts, not just talk
• Development Initiatives - Life long learning is not a cliché