QA Lead: Backend & API Quality Strategist

Aderen; Barcelona; Presencial; EUR 67.000 - 77.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Daily rate €280–€320 + VAT

ASAP start

Descripción de la vacante

Aderen is seeking a QA Lead to define and drive the quality strategy across a backend-oriented, multi-squad project in Barcelona. This role focuses on coordinating QA activities, maintaining standards, and ensuring visibility of quality risks throughout delivery.

You will work with Product, BA, Architecture, Development, and DevOps to embed quality, manage traceability, and support IV&V activities to ensure release readiness. Strong English proficiency is required.

Formación

• 3-4 years of hands-on experience with one of the listed tools.
• Strong QA leadership within complex software delivery environments.
• Experience coordinating QA across multiple squads or teams.
• Backend-oriented testing involving APIs, integrations, workflows, or data validation.
• Understanding API-based validation and integration-focused testing.
• Ability to define test approaches, quality gates, defect triage, reporting, and release readiness processes.
• Ability to work with developers, architects, and DevOps teams.
• Professional level of English (spoken and written).

Responsabilidades

• 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.
• Embed quality throughout delivery by working with Product, BA, Architecture, Development, DevOps, and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate quality reporting, traceability, audit readiness, and release-readiness recommendations.
• Support collaboration with IV&V, including evidence preparation, defect clarification, and follow-up activities.
• Promote 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.

Conocimientos

QA leadership

Delivery coordination

Backend testing

API testing

Stakeholder communication

Attention to detail

English proficiency

Educación

ISTQB certification

Herramientas

Salesforce

Boomi

Oracle NetSuite

Zuora Billing

Descripción del empleo

Aderen is seeking a QA Lead to define and drive the quality strategy across a backend-oriented, multi-squad project in Barcelona. This role focuses on coordinating QA activities, maintaining standards, and ensuring visibility of quality risks throughout delivery.

You will work with Product, BA, Architecture, Development, and DevOps to embed quality, manage traceability, and support IV&V activities to ensure release readiness. Strong English proficiency is required.