Quality Assurance Lead

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

Lead enterprise QA strategy, automation and governance, embedding quality across digital products while partnering with product, engineering and business teams to improve delivery.

What's In It For You

Environment: Join a leading organisation operating within a complex, highly regulated sector

Impact: Define and shape the quality strategy behind critical digital products and platforms

Ownership: Own enterprise-wide QA strategy, standards, automation and release quality

Influence: Work directly with the Chief Product Officer and Digital Leads across the organisation

Progression: Build and develop a modern quality engineering capability across a growing digital organisation

Why This Role

This organisation is continuing to invest in its digital products and technology, and quality is a critical part of that journey.

They're looking for a Quality Assurance Lead to take ownership of how quality and testing works across their digital products and platforms.

This is bigger than running a testing function.

You'll be responsible for defining the enterprise QA strategy, introducing consistent standards and governance, and working with product, engineering and Digital Leads to make sure quality is built into the entire product lifecycle.

The opportunity is to shape how an organisation approaches quality - from discovery and acceptance criteria through to automation, release readiness and continuous improvement.

What They Need Help With

You'll become the central point of leadership for quality across multiple product and delivery teams.

That means setting the strategy while remaining close enough to the technology and delivery teams to make sure it works in practice.

You’ll be:

• Defining and owning the enterprise QA and testing strategy


• Establishing consistent testing standards, frameworks and governance


• Partnering with Digital Leads, product managers, designers and engineers


• Leading automation strategy across frontend, backend, APIs and integrations


• Driving shift-left testing and continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines


• Establishing regression, performance, security and reliability testing approaches


• Defining acceptance criteria and release quality thresholds


• Owning 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

This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can think strategically about quality while still understanding the engineering behind modern test automation and delivery.

What They’re Looking For

• 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.

The Culture

This role sits within the organisation's digital function and reports directly to the Chief Product Officer.

You'll work across product, engineering and business teams rather than operating as an isolated testing function.

There's a strong emphasis on shared ownership of quality - putting the right standards, processes and automation in place so teams can deliver confidently without quality becoming a bottleneck.

Good fit for someone who enjoys building things properly, influencing across teams and wants the opportunity to shape a quality function rather than simply inherit one.

Interested?