Senior QA Architect: Automation-Driven Testing Strategy

Keyfactor; Barcelona; Vor Ort; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Second Fridays off

Paid Parental Leave

Wellbeing resources

Volunteer days

Zusammenfassung

Keyfactor, Barcelona-based, is seeking a Senior Software QA Analyst to own the test strategy for Redtrust, Keyfactor’s signature platform for digital certificates. This senior IC role drives automation-first testing and coordinates Product, Development, and QA across layers (unit, API, UI) to improve quality from design.

You will mentor junior QA engineers and shape testing practices, ensuring risk-based coverage and measurable quality improvements as the product scales.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in QA engineering, QA analysis, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience with risk-based test strategy — able to assess a large or bloated test suite and defensibly prioritize, rationalize, and reduce it, not merely execute it.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and influence: comfortable participating in product design reviews and negotiating scope and ownership with engineering and product stakeholders.
• Solid test-automation literacy — sufficient to prioritize an automation backlog, judge the appropriate test layer (unit / API / UI), and collaborate credibly with automation engineers.
• Experience with test-management tooling and defect-tracking/traceability practices.
• Experience with manual testing and defect tracking, with a clear orientation toward eliminating manual toil through strategy and automation.
• Strategic thinking, exceptional problem-solving abilities, and high-level proficiency in relevant tools and technologies.
• Ability to lead complex initiatives, drive strategic change, and influence decision making across functions.
• Extensive knowledge of industry trends, quality methodologies, and cross functional processes.

Aufgaben

• Design and own a comprehensive, risk-based test strategy for Redtrust, spanning functional, regression, integration, and end-to-end testing.
• Lead the transformation of a largely manual regression process into a prioritized, automation-first approach: inventory and risk-tier existing coverage, retire redundant and low-value cases, and drive a prioritized automation backlog to completion with the automation engineers.
• Design and maintain test plans and test cases for significant product features, ensuring thorough, risk-appropriate coverage.
• Identify, document, and track defects, collaborating with Development to resolve them, and maintain healthy defect-triage discipline.
• Participate in product design and refinement reviews to surface quality and testability risks early (“shift-left”).
• Own the coordination interface between Product, Development, and QA — aligning the three functions on testing requirements and on which layer should catch which class of issue.
• Partner with Development to define and grow the unit-test layer and agree the dev/QA testing boundary, prioritizing the platform’s most critical modules (e.g. signing and authentication).
• Establish and maintain test documentation, quality metrics, and reporting; make quality risk and progress visible to engineering leadership.
• Drive continuous improvement in QA methodologies, tooling, and process, including safeguards that prevent regression scope from re-bloating as the product grows.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and share QA best practices across the team.

Kenntnisse

QA engineering

QA analysis

Cross-functional collaboration

Test-automation literacy

Unit/API/UI testing

Defect tracking

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Influence and leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

Cucumber

Jobbeschreibung

Keyfactor, Barcelona-based, is seeking a Senior Software QA Analyst to own the test strategy for Redtrust, Keyfactor’s signature platform for digital certificates. This senior IC role drives automation-first testing and coordinates Product, Development, and QA across layers (unit, API, UI) to improve quality from design.

You will mentor junior QA engineers and shape testing practices, ensuring risk-based coverage and measurable quality improvements as the product scales.