QA & Test Manager: Lead Risk‑Based Testing & Team Coaching

DKB Code Factory GmbH; Valencia; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

DKB Code Factory GmbH is seeking a QA and Test Manager to elevate software quality across a subdomain. You will coach teams in risk‑based testing, coordinate work across boundaries, and provide hands‑on support when needed to ensure robust release readiness.

You will connect testing priorities to business risk, design clear test plans, review coverage, and drive end‑to‑end testing with cross‑functional teams. A collaborative approach and continuous improvement mindset are essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing and executing tests and tracking defects.
• Ability to align testing strategy with business and technical risk.
• Experience coordinating cross-team testing across environments.
• Clear communication and coaching skills.

Responsibilities

• Help teams connect testing priorities to business and technical risks, choose suitable test levels, and challenge requirements and acceptance criteria early.
• Coach teams in creating clear, realistic test plans that account for scope, risks, responsibilities, dependencies, environments, test data, capacity, and completion criteria.
• Review test plans and coverage constructively, helping teams identify important gaps and dependencies early.
• Facilitate integration and end‑to‑end testing across teams, clarify responsibilities, coordinate shared test sessions, and follow up on blockers.
• Support testing coordination and documentation, including consolidating status while avoiding duplicate reporting.
• Build testing capability through workshops, pairing, test reviews, and practical examples for developers, testers, and product colleagues.
• Help teams apply test design techniques, exploratory testing, automation, and appropriate component, integration, contract, and end‑to‑end testing approaches.
• Contribute hands‑on to test analysis, design, execution, defect investigation, and retesting when expertise or temporary capacity is needed.
• Help teams learn from test results, defects, production issues, and feedback, and support root‑cause analysis and follow‑through on improvements.
• Communicate testing evidence, coverage gaps, and remaining risks to support release decisions.

Skills

QA management

Test leadership

Risk-based testing

Coaching

Automation

CI/CD

API testing

Tools

JIRA

TestRail

Selenium

CI/CD

Job description

DKB Code Factory GmbH is seeking a QA and Test Manager to elevate software quality across a subdomain. You will coach teams in risk‑based testing, coordinate work across boundaries, and provide hands‑on support when needed to ensure robust release readiness.

You will connect testing priorities to business risk, design clear test plans, review coverage, and drive end‑to‑end testing with cross‑functional teams. A collaborative approach and continuous improvement mindset are essential.