QA Lead Engineer: Automation & Quality Leader

Sine Eng; Tampere; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch Benefit: daily lunch allowance

Health & Wellness Package

Sport & Culture budget

Wellbeing Allowance

Extended Occupational Healthcare

Accident Insurance

Travel Insurance

Company Phone + Subscription

Job summary

Sine Engineering seeks an experienced QA Lead Engineer to drive quality initiatives across products and services. This role blends hands-on automation development with QA leadership, including defining strategies, mentoring teams, and coordinating with globally distributed engineers.

The ideal candidate will build scalable automation frameworks, ensure testing best practices, and enable high-quality releases across multiple teams and locations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in Software Quality Assurance and test automation.
• Proven QA Lead/Test Lead experience and senior contributor.
• Strong Python and C# programming skills.
• Hands-on with modern automation frameworks (Robot, Playwright, Selenium, Cypress).
• Experience testing REST APIs and SOA; knowledge of QA methods.
• Production automation testing and CI/CD pipeline integration.
• Experience in Agile environments and cross-functional leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement testing strategies to improve coverage and reduce manual testing.
• Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks for embedded products.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and ensure reliable runs.
• Establish quality metrics, dashboards, and reports to track health and testing effectiveness.
• Continuously improve automation coverage, reliability and performance.
• Mentor team members on best practices and automation techniques.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management and DevOps across locations.
• Communicate risks, progress and recommendations to stakeholders.

Skills

QA Lead

Test Automation

Python

C#

Robot Framework

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

REST APIs

CI/CD

Agile

Team Leadership

Tools

Robot Framework

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI

Jenkins

Job description

Sine Engineering seeks an experienced QA Lead Engineer to drive quality initiatives across products and services. This role blends hands-on automation development with QA leadership, including defining strategies, mentoring teams, and coordinating with globally distributed engineers.

The ideal candidate will build scalable automation frameworks, ensure testing best practices, and enable high-quality releases across multiple teams and locations.