QA Lead

Aderen; España; Presencial; EUR 52.000 - 59.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Aderen is seeking a QA Lead to define and drive the quality strategy across a complex backend-oriented project. You will coordinate QA activities across the programme to ensure consistent standards, visibility of quality risks, and alignment between testing, delivery, and governance.

This role demands a strong mix of QA leadership, delivery coordination, and backend-oriented testing understanding, helping squads embed quality throughout the lifecycle and ensuring release readiness.

Formación

• Demonstrated QA leadership in complex software delivery environments.
• Experience coordinating QA across multiple squads or teams.
• Backend/API focused testing and validation with strong analytics.

Responsabilidades

• Define and maintain the overall QA strategy and standards across the programme.
• Coordinate QA activities across squads with consistent execution, evidence, reporting and defect management.
• Oversee test coverage for API, integration, contract testing, regression, and risk-based validation.
• Ensure QA validation for authentication, authorisation, roles, tenant isolation and service interactions.

Conocimientos

QA Leadership

Backend Testing

API Testing

Test Strategy

Stakeholder Collaboration

Educación

ISTQB certification

Herramientas

Salesforce

Boomi

Oracle NetSuite

Zuora Billing

Descripción del empleo

We are looking for a QA Lead to define and drive the quality strategy across a complex backend-oriented, multi-squad technology project.

This person will coordinate QA activities across the programme, ensuring consistent standards, clear visibility of quality risks, and alignment between testing, delivery, and governance expectations.

This role requires a strong mix of QA leadership, delivery coordination, and backend-oriented testing understanding.

We need someone capable of establishing a robust and traceable QA operating model, supporting squads in quality-related decisions, and ensuring quality is embedded throughout the delivery lifecycle.

(You will need to pass a QA Lead - Microservices, Integration & Workflow Orchestration security process)

RESPONSIBILITIES & TASKS :

• Define and maintain the overall QA strategy, standards, and ways of working across the programme.
• Coordinate and support QA activities across squads, ensuring consistency in execution, evidence, reporting, and defect management.
• Oversee test coverage across API testing, integration testing, contract testing, regression, negative scenarios, business workflows, and risk-based validation.
• Ensure appropriate quality validation in areas such as authentication, authorisation, roles and claims, tenant isolation, and service interactions.
• Work closely with Product, Business Analysis, Architecture, Development, DevOps, and external stakeholders to embed quality throughout delivery.
• Coordinate quality reporting, traceability, audit readiness, and release-readiness recommendations.
• Support collaboration with IV&V (Independent Verification and Validation), including evidence preparation, defect clarification, and follow-up activities.
• Promote clear traceability between requirements, test coverage, defects, evidence, and delivery outcomes.
• Ensure any use of AI-assisted QA or test generation is reviewed and aligned with quality standards.

EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS :

• Experience working with tools such as Salesforce, Boomi, Oracle NetSuite, and Zuora Billing. At least 3-4 years of experience with one of these tools.
• Strong experience in QA leadership within complex software delivery environments.
• Previous experience coordinating QA activities across multiple squads or teams.
• Experience working in backend-oriented environments involving APIs, integrations, workflows, or data validation.
• Understanding of API-based validation approaches and integration-focused testing.
• Experience defining test approaches, quality gates, defect triage, reporting, and release-readiness processes.
• Ability to work confidently with technical stakeholders including developers, architects, and DevOps teams.
• Strong analytical skills, communication abilities, and attention to detail.
• Professional level of English (spoken and written).

PARTICULARY VALUABLE :

• Experience in integration-heavy or distributed system environments.
• Experience working in regulated, security-conscious, or highly governed delivery contexts.
• Familiarity with CI/CD quality controls, structured evidence management, and traceability practices.
• Experience collaborating with external validation, audit, or compliance teams.
• ISTQB certification or equivalent QA certification.

LANGUAGE :

What we are looking for:

We need someone who is practical, organised, credible, and delivery-focused, with the ability to coordinate QA in a structured but non-bureaucratic way. The right person will help ensure consistency across squads, provide visibility of quality risks, and support confident release and delivery decisions.

WE OFFER :

• Full-time Freelance contract
• Rate: €280/320 per day + VAT (according to the experience provided)