Senior Qa & Test Automation Lead

TL;DR

Senior QA & Test Automation Lead: Shaping and advancing customers’ quality assurance and test automation landscapes, as well as hirify.global’s services and accelerators in this area with an accent on strategic consulting, RfPs & pre-sales presentations & discussions with customers, and leadership and mentoring responsibilities. Focus on applying AI-assisted approaches across the entire Test Life Cycle (TLC) to drive efficiency, quality, and maintainability.

Location: Flexible Working Place - Work from anywhere (remote or from the Vienna office)

Salary: Gross monthly salary depending on qualifications, experience and salary model between € 5.500,- and € 8.000,-.

Company

hirify.global helps future-proof your business through a forward-thinking, fluidic, and CARING mindset.

What you will do

• Leading and mentoring automation and QA teams, both on-site and in geographically distributed environments
• Consulting customers on test strategies, automation approaches, processes, and best practices to improve overall QA and QA automation maturity
• Applying AI-assisted approaches across the entire Test Life Cycle (TLC) to drive efficiency, quality, and maintainability
• Supporting pre-sales activities with QA & automation expertise, including customer presentations, solution design, and relationship building
• Creating test concepts and test automation concepts, estimating test efforts, planning and tracking test & automation activities, and evaluating test results and KPIs
• Ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and scalable automation solutions

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
• Experience in pre-sales discussions with clients and RfPs
• Several years of consulting experience in QA services at an IT service provider is required
• Strong knowledge of software development processes and Agile methodologies
• 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), for example for test design & automation using tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Testim, Mabl is required.
• 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.
• Experience in leading & mentoring teams
• 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
• The latest Technology - For the brightest minds
• Development Initiatives - Life long learning is not a cliché
• Modern Office - Where everyone feels welcome