QA Lead

Akkuro; Netherlands; Remote; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Akkuro Lending seeks a QA Lead to own the test strategy across Lending teams, ensuring consistency and high quality in our financial software implementations. You will guide QA practices, coordinate with developers, testers, product owners and customers, and adapt strategies with new tech and evolving risks.

You will help teams manage risks, set testing priorities, and ensure release readiness, with a strong focus on data migration validation and performance testing under peak loads.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in software testing, QA or quality engineering.
• Experience in a lead, coordinating or senior QA role.
• Ability to build support and bring teams along with changes related to quality.
• Experience with test automation and making conscious choices between automated and manual testing.
• Experience with APIs, integrations and complex business processes.
• Experience with testing data migrations and data validation.
• Knowledge of load and performance testing and coordinating these activities.
• Experience with customer-facing software implementations and aligning testing activities with external stakeholders.
• Pragmatic mindset: improving quality without slowing development or delivery.
• Affinity with financial services, lending or other business-critical software.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the existing QA and test strategy across Lending teams and adapt it as needed.
• Communicate why decisions around quality, testing and automation are made.
• Identify risks and testing priorities; align releases and complex changes.
• Coordinate with developers, testers, product owners and specialists without taking ownership from teams.
• Coordinate testing with customers during implementations and agree on joint testing approaches and criteria.
• Shape testing and validation when data migrations are involved to ensure data integrity.
• Lead load and performance testing efforts with technical specialists and customers.
• Drive continuous improvements by learning from bugs, regressions and production issues.

Skills

QA experience

Lead coordination

Test strategy

Stakeholder communication

Dutch & English

Job description

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QA Lead

Location: Deventer
Department: Lead & Management
Hours: Full-time (32-40 hours)

The impact you will make as a QA Lead

Akkuro Lending supports financial institutions with business-critical lending processes. This makes quality essential. A discrepancy in a calculation, an incomplete data migration, an integration that fails under high load, or an error in an automated process can have an immediate impact on our customers’ services.

As QA Lead, you ensure consistency in our approach to quality. You oversee the test strategy across the different Lending teams and help developers, testers, product owners and other stakeholders put it into practice. You keep an eye on what works and make adjustments when new technology, changing risks or lessons learned from customer implementations call for it.

Across the teams, you provide direction for quality assurance within the Lending organization. A clear test strategy is already in place; you safeguard it, ensure we apply it consistently, and adapt it when developments in our product, customers or technology require it. Just as importantly, you build lasting support and help teams see quality as a shared responsibility.

Your perspective goes beyond Akkuro. During implementations, you work closely with customers to ensure a reliable go-live. Who tests what? What dependencies are there? How do we validate migrated data? And how do we demonstrate that the solution continues to perform well under expected volumes and peak loads?

You look beyond a single sprint, release or implementation. You connect experiences across teams and customer projects, use insights from test results and production issues, and ensure that we learn from them as a Lending organization.

Make a difference from day one

What your role entails

You ensure that our test strategy is not only documented, but also broadly supported and consistently applied across Akkuro Lending.

You oversee the existing QA and test strategy across the different teams and adapt it when developments require it. You build and maintain support for the chosen approach and actively communicate why we make certain choices around quality, testing and automation.

You help teams identify risks and testing priorities and ensure alignment around releases and complex changes. You work closely with developers, testers, product owners and other specialists, without taking over the teams’ ownership of quality.

During customer implementations, you also take on a coordinating role towards the customer. You establish clear agreements on the joint testing approach, responsibilities, acceptance criteria and release readiness, and ensure that issues and dependencies are identified in good time.

When an implementation involves data migration, you help shape the testing and validation approach. You ensure that we not only establish whether the data has been technically migrated, but also whether it is complete, accurate and usable in the new environment.

You also have a coordinating role in load and performance testing. Together with technical specialists and the customer, you define relevant scenarios, volumes and requirements, and ensure that results are assessed and followed up where necessary.

Finally, you use insights from bugs, regressions, production issues and customer implementations to initiate structural improvements. In this way, you help further professionalize quality assurance within Akkuro Lending.

What you bring as a QA Lead

You are able to approach quality from both a technical and an organizational perspective. You don’t need to execute every test yourself, but you understand software development and testing well enough to identify risks, ask the right questions, and bring people together around a shared approach.

You bring:

• Several years of experience in software testing, QA or quality engineering
• Experience in a lead, coordinating or senior QA role
• The ability to build support and bring teams along with changes related to quality
• Experience with test automation and making conscious choices between automated and manual testing
• Experience with APIs, integrations and complex business processes
• Experience with or knowledge of testing and validating data migrations
• Knowledge of load and performance testing and the ability to coordinate these activities
• Experience with customer-facing software implementations and aligning testing activities with external stakeholders
• A pragmatic mindset: improving quality without unnecessarily slowing down development or delivery
• An affinity with financial services, lending or other business-critical software.

Experience in lending or banking is a clear advantage, but not a hard requirement. The ability to communicate effectively in both Dutch and English, both verbally and in writing, is essential for this position.

What we ask

Ownership of quality across teams. The ability to build support without taking ownership away from the teams. And a continuous critical eye on whether our approach to testing still fits where Akkuro Lending is heading.

About Akkuro

Akkuro is redefining Composable Banking, enabling financial institutions to seamlessly build, integrate, and expand financial services across lending, payments, investments, deposits, and more. Our modular platform provides the flexibility and adaptability needed to innovate without disrupting existing operations. With Akkuro, banks and fintechs can assemble best-in-class solutions, adapt to evolving customer needs, and future-proof their technology stack.

Designed for agility, Akkuro empowers financial organizations to deliver impactful experiences today while laying the foundation for a lifetime of financial services and innovation.

Learn more at www.akkuro.com .

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