Enterprise QA Lead: Strategy, Automation & Release Quality

nineDots.io; Dublin; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

nineDots.io is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance professional to own the enterprise QA strategy and governance across our digital products and platforms in Ireland. You will shape testing standards, drive automation across frontend and backend, and partner with product, engineering and business leaders.

In this hands-on leadership role you’ll define acceptance criteria, release quality thresholds and risk-based testing while coaching QA teams and advancing a modern quality engineering capability

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience across QA, testing or quality engineering.
• 3-5+ years in QA leadership roles.
• Experience defining QA strategy across multiple products or delivery teams.
• Strong test automation experience with tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium or RestAssured.
• Strong API and integration testing experience.
• Experience integrating testing into CI/CD environments such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or Jenkins.
• Understanding of performance testing tools such as k6, JMeter or Gatling.
• Experience establishing quality standards, governance and release processes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence across product, engineering and business teams.
• Comfortable operating in a complex environment where quality, risk and reliability really matter.
• Experience within healthcare, financial services, SaaS or another regulated environment would be particularly useful.
• Exposure to FHIR, clinical systems or enterprise integration platforms would be a bonus, but isn't essential.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise QA and testing strategy.
• Establish consistent testing standards, frameworks and governance.
• Partner with Digital Leads, product managers, designers and engineers.
• Lead automation strategy across frontend, backend, APIs and integrations.
• Drive shift-left testing and continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish regression, performance, security and reliability testing approaches.
• Define acceptance criteria and release quality thresholds.
• Own release quality governance and supporting go/no-go decisions.
• Introducing risk-based testing for critical operational and customer-facing systems.
• Coaching testing teams and building stronger QA capability across the organisation.

Skills

QA leadership

Test automation

API testing

CI/CD experience

Stakeholder management

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

RestAssured

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

k6

JMeter

Gatling

Job description

nineDots.io is seeking a Lead Quality Assurance professional to own the enterprise QA strategy and governance across our digital products and platforms in Ireland. You will shape testing standards, drive automation across frontend and backend, and partner with product, engineering and business leaders.

In this hands-on leadership role you’ll define acceptance criteria, release quality thresholds and risk-based testing while coaching QA teams and advancing a modern quality engineering capability