Remote Senior QA Chapter Lead - Automation & Strategy

Jobgether SRL; Schweiz; Remote; CHF 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within Europe

Senior technical leadership role

Hands-on QA engineering with cross‑cut

Influence over QA standards and tools

Job summary

Jobgether SRL, on behalf of a partner, is seeking a Senior QA Chapter Lead in Switzerland to own the QA strategy while remaining hands-on within a squad. You will define acceptance criteria with Product Owners, build automated test suites across unit to end-to-end levels, and drive Defintion of Done quality gates.

You’ll shape QA standards across the engineering function and collaborate with leadership in an Agile setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software QA experience, including at least 2 years in a Lead QA role across multiple teams.
• Strong automation engineering skills with production-quality test code that runs reliably in CI environments.
• Deep experience with API testing (REST, contract testing, integration testing).
• Proven track record defining and maintaining QA standards within Agile teams.
• Embedded QA contributor across the full development lifecycle, not just final validation.

Responsibilities

• Embed as a senior QA engineer within one squad and participate in sprint rituals.
• Define and agree on acceptance criteria with Product Owners before each sprint.
• Design, write, and maintain automated test suites across levels (unit to end-to-end).
• Own the squad’s Definition of Done quality gate and ensure quality criteria are met before releases.
• Define and maintain QA standards across the engineering function, including test pyramid and CI gates.
• Establish onboarding processes and baseline QA expectations for new engineers.
• Lead monthly QA Guild to align standards, tooling, and DoD practices across engineering.
• Oversee QA automation frameworks and tooling selection and evolution.
• Identify opportunities to improve or retire testing technologies as needed.
• Monitor QA chapter health and report on coverage, flaky tests, and risks.
• Collaborate with engineering leadership to address quality issues affecting multiple teams.

Skills

Automation engineering

API testing

Java

Tools

JUnit

REST Assured

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Jobgether SRL, on behalf of a partner, is seeking a Senior QA Chapter Lead in Switzerland to own the QA strategy while remaining hands-on within a squad. You will define acceptance criteria with Product Owners, build automated test suites across unit to end-to-end levels, and drive Defintion of Done quality gates.

You’ll shape QA standards across the engineering function and collaborate with leadership in an Agile setting.