Senior QA Automation Engineer - Remote & Flexible

Nalanda Global; Madrid; Remote; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working time

Teleworking

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Nalanda Global in Spain is seeking a hands-on Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead the shift from manual QA to scalable automation across product teams. You will embed in a development squad and own quality activities, building product knowledge and automating high-value scenarios.

You will establish reusable tooling, define standards, coach teams, and integrate tests into CI/CD, partnering with Tech Leaders, Platform, and DevOps to raise quality without slowing delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software quality, test engineering, or QA with hands-on automation in production.
• Experience leading a transition from manual QA to automation across multiple squads or products.
• Strong programming skills in Java and/or JavaScript/TypeScript and the ability to design maintainable test code.

Responsibilities

• Embed in an assigned product team and participate in discovery, refinement, acceptance criteria definition, risk assessment, and release planning.
• Perform exploratory, functional, integration, regression, and release testing when manual validation is fastest or safest.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated tests across UI, API, integration, contract, and service layers, choosing the right test pyramid for each risk.
• Investigate failures end to end and collaborate with engineers to resolve root causes.
• Keep automated suites reliable, readable, and maintainable by reducing flakiness and data dependencies.

Skills

Java

JavaScript/TypeScript

Quality engineering

Test automation

CI/CD

English communication

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

JUnit

TestNG

PyTest

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Nalanda Global in Spain is seeking a hands-on Senior QA Automation Engineer to lead the shift from manual QA to scalable automation across product teams. You will embed in a development squad and own quality activities, building product knowledge and automating high-value scenarios.

You will establish reusable tooling, define standards, coach teams, and integrate tests into CI/CD, partnering with Tech Leaders, Platform, and DevOps to raise quality without slowing delivery.