Senior QA Automation Engineer

Productiv Team; Deutschland; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Productiv Team is seeking a senior QA lead to shape the quality backbone of our enterprise platforms, uniting APIs and frontend systems to power critical workflows. You’ll design automation strategies and ensure reliable releases by aligning testing with business goals and CI/CD practices.

You’ll collaborate closely with product owners, stakeholders and engineering to build scalable frameworks for UI, API and end‑to‑end tests, validate complex workflows (orders, payments, financial processes)

Qualifications

• 7–10 years in QA with a strong automation background.
• Hands-on API testing (REST/SOAP) and UI automation with Selenium, Cypress, Playwright.
• CI/CD tooling experience (Jenkins, GitHub Actions).
• Experience in requirement analysis, functional validation, and writing acceptance criteria.
• Ability to validate enterprise workflows and financial/transactional processes.
• Strong stakeholder management and proactive mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA strategy and design scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and end-to-end testing.
• Build and maintain regression and functional test suites, ensuring quality gates within CI/CD pipelines.
• Gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Validate end-to-end workflows and integrations across frontend, APIs, and backend systems.
• Partner with stakeholders to support UAT, identify gaps, and drive alignment between business, product, and engineering teams.

Skills

QA strategy leadership

Automation mindset

Stakeholder management

Requirements analysis

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

About the role

Join us in shaping the quality backbone of our enterprise platforms, where APIs and frontend systems come together to power business-
critical workflows. You'll work closely with product owners, stakeholders, and engineering teams to build automation, testing strategy, and business validation practices that make shipping software reliable, fast, and business-aligned. If you love solving hard quality problems and bridging the gap between business and engineering, we want to hear from you.

What you do

• Lead QA strategy and design scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and end-to-end testing
• Build and maintain regression and functional test suites, ensuring quality gates within CI/CD pipelines
• Gather and analyze business requirements, translating them into test scenarios and acceptance criteria
• Validate end-to-end workflows and integrations (orders, payments, financial and transactional processes) across frontend, APIs, and backend systems
• Partner with stakeholders to support UAT, identify gaps, and drive alignment between business, product, and engineering teams

What you bring

• 7–10 years in QA with a strong automation background, running quality across enterprise platforms
• Hands-on experience with API testing (REST/SOAP) and UI automation tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright)
• Solid understanding of automation frameworks, test design patterns, and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
• Strong experience in requirement analysis, functional validation, and writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Comfort validating enterprise workflows, integrations, and financial/transactional processes
• Strong communication & stakeholder management skills, with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset

Nice to have

• SAP integrations (SOAP services)
• Exposure to Salesforce or similar platforms
• Performance testing experience
• Familiarity with AI-driven testing tools

All our positions are Remote and are available as Full Time Employment or B2B Contracts