Remote Senior QA Chapter Lead - Automation & Quality Strategy

Jobgether SRL; France; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote within Europe

Senior technical leadership

Job summary

Lever, Inc. is seeking a senior QA Chapter Lead based in France. You will be embedded in one engineering squad while shaping QA strategy, automation, tooling, and testing practices across the wider function.

You will own the QA lifecycle from acceptance criteria and automated testing to Definition of Done standards and CI gates, with significant technical ownership and no direct people management. This is a fintech-focused, cross-squad quality leadership role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software QA experience including lead QA responsibilities across multiple teams.
• Strong automation engineering skills and production-quality test code for CI environments.
• Deep experience with API testing (REST, contract testing, integration).
• Proven experience defining and maintaining QA standards within Agile teams.
• Experience as an embedded QA contributor throughout the development lifecycle.
• Strong understanding of Java-based backend environments and ability to test backend functionality.
• Excellent communication to influence engineering teams without direct line-management authority.

Responsibilities

• Embed as a senior QA engineer within one squad, participating in sprint ceremonies.
• Define acceptance criteria with Product Owners before each sprint.
• Design and maintain automated test suites at unit, integration, and end-to-end levels.
• Own the squad’s Definition of Done quality gate and ensure quality criteria are met before releases.
• Define and maintain QA standards across the engineering function, including CI quality gates.
• Lead onboarding and establish QA expectations for new engineers in the chapter.
• Lead a monthly QA Guild with the Chapter Lead to align standards and tools across engineering.
• Evaluate and document QA automation frameworks and tools, and evolve them as needed.
• Identify opportunities to improve or retire testing technologies based on engineering needs.

Skills

QA leadership

Automation engineering

API testing

Test strategy

Java backend

CI/CD

Cross-team collaboration

Quality ownership

Job description

Lever, Inc. is seeking a senior QA Chapter Lead based in France. You will be embedded in one engineering squad while shaping QA strategy, automation, tooling, and testing practices across the wider function.

You will own the QA lifecycle from acceptance criteria and automated testing to Definition of Done standards and CI gates, with significant technical ownership and no direct people management. This is a fintech-focused, cross-squad quality leadership role.