Senior QA Engineer: AI-Driven Validation & Release

Frontiers; Madrid; Presencial; EUR 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Office presence

Wellbeing days

Volunteer days

Employee Assistance Programme

Learning Hub

Healthcare and pension

Descripción de la vacante

Frontiers is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to evolve our Publishing Platform, rebuilding it around a manuscript-first architecture and AI-assisted editorial workflows. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define validation strategies, implement automated tests, and ensure quality checks are embedded from design through production.

This role rewards collaboration, continuous improvement, and hands-on coaching to raise testing practices across fast-moving,

Formación

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / QA roles.
• Strong understanding of software testing and quality practices, with experience defining validation strategies.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to understand the big picture of the system and analyse interactions between components.
• Experience with API testing (e.g. REST Assured, Postman), as well as integration and end-to-end testing.
• Experience building and maintaining automated tests and working with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with performance testing (e.g. k6, JMeter).
• Curiosity and proactivity in adopting AI-assisted tools in day-to-day work.

Responsabilidades

• Work with Engineers, Product Managers, and stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and consistent.
• Define the validation strategy, deciding what needs to be validated, at which level, and how.
• Define test scenarios covering key user flows, and edge cases.
• Identify risks and potential failure scenarios early, before development starts.
• Review and challenge non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security) to ensure they are clear and measurable.
• Ensure automated tests (API, integration, end-to-end) are in place and run in CI/CD pipelines to validate changes continuously.
• Coordinate testing and validation activities across the team, ensuring quality checks are completed before changes are released.
• Contribute to release readiness, supporting decisions on whether a change is ready to go live based on validation results.
• Define and follow post-release checks, ensuring the system behaves as expected in production.
• Use production data and quality signals to improve validation strategies and prevent recurring issues.
• Improve the team's quality processes and metrics, using data to identify issues and drive improvements.
• Support the team in improving testing practices and sharing ownership of quality.
• Apply AI tools to support testing, validation, and analysis, and help the team use them effectively.
• Contribute to the Quality Engineering community, sharing practices and helping evolve quality standards across teams.

Conocimientos

QA testing

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Understanding system interactions

API testing

Automated validation

AI tools usage

Herramientas

REST Assured

Postman

Playwright

k6

JMeter

Descripción del empleo

Frontiers is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to evolve our Publishing Platform, rebuilding it around a manuscript-first architecture and AI-assisted editorial workflows. You will collaborate with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to define validation strategies, implement automated tests, and ensure quality checks are embedded from design through production.

This role rewards collaboration, continuous improvement, and hands-on coaching to raise testing practices across fast-moving,