Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Ormco; Alcobendas; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

Hybrid work mode (4 days in Madrid, 1-

International company environment

Job summary

Ormco is seeking a Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join our Madrid team. You will own end-to-end quality for complex desktop-based software, mentor engineers, and drive risk-based testing across features.

This is a hybrid role in Madrid, 4 days in the office and 1 day remote, with opportunities to lead test strategies, improve processes, and collaborate with an international product team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Deep expertise in testing complex systems and risk-based test strategies.
• Proven experience driving process improvements and documenting guidelines.
• Ability to mentor and lead engineers by example.
• Knowledge of Git workflows.
• Fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end quality for user stories, including test design, manual testing, and test automation where possible.
• Execute hands-on testing and run regression suites to verify functionality.
• Contribute to formal verification by executing test protocols and documenting results.
• Identify, document, and track bugs with precision and work with developers to verify fixes.
• Provide feedback on test design to QA group members.
• Assist triage and prioritization of defects found during testing cycles.
• Drive process improvements, create new guidelines, and champion risk assessment practices.
• Lead test strategy for high-risk features and personally execute tests in complex areas.
• Mentor middle and junior engineers through problem-solving and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Quality assurance

Mentoring

Test design

Regression testing

Git workflows

English

Tools

Python

BDD

Job description

The Senior Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer is a quality leader who drives process improvement and mentors others while remaining a deeply involved, hands-on tester. They are known for their initiative in improving team processes, such as creating new guidelines for acceptance criteria. They lead by example, championing best practices and taking on the most complex testing challenges, especially on desktop applications with 3D components.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Feature Quality: Take full ownership of the end-to-end quality for user stories, which includes test design, manual testing, test automation (if possible), and ensuring the feature team adheres to all R&D guidelines.
• Execute Hands-on Testing: Actively perform manual testing for user stories and execute known regression suites to verify functionality against requirements.
• Participate in Formal Verification: Dedicate significant effort during the formal verification period, executing test protocols and documenting results meticulously.
• Defect Management: Identify, document, and track bugs with precision in the team's issue tracking system, collaborating with developers to verify fixes.
• QA Group Contribution: Provide feedback on test design to QA group members.
• Feature Team Contribution: Support triage and prioritization of defects found during testing cycles.
• Drive Process Improvement: Proactively identify process gaps and drive improvements, such as creating new guidelines, proposing changes to team processes, or championing risk assessment practices.
• Lead Complex Testing: Lead the test strategy for high-risk features and personally execute tests for complex areas.
• Mentor and Coach: Actively mentor Middle and Junior engineers through collaborative problem-solving, detailed code/test reviews, and structured knowledge transfer sessions.

Job Requirements

Mandatory

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Deep expertise in testing complex systems and designing risk-based test strategies.
• Proven experience driving process improvements and creating technical documentation or guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead other engineers through influence and example.
• Knowledge of Git workflows.
• Fluent in English

Preferred

• Knowledge of Python.
• Experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience presenting new ideas or processes to technical teams.

We Offer

• Competitive base salary
• Modern agile development processes and toolset
• International company environment
• Hybrid working mode with 4 days in the office in Madrid and 1 remote

Operating company:Ormco