Lead QA Engineer – Digital Commerce & Automation

Hexa Group; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health insurance

Mental health support

Continuous training and certification

Flexible work arrangements

Childcare vouchers

Leadership presence in projects

AI governance & cybersecurity training

Job summary

Hexa seeks a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to strengthen quality engineering for a luxury digital commerce environment. The role blends hands-on testing, Agile delivery coordination and leadership of a nearshore testing service with a focus on early risk identification, automation and reliable release decisions.

You will drive risk-based testing, design and execute tests across API and end-to-end levels, promote Shift-Left in CI/CD, coordinate across Product, Engineering and DevOps, and lead

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Quality Assurance or Quality Engineering in digital environments.
• Hands-on while leading quality practices across multiple delivery teams.
• Experience with risk-based testing and quality indicators.
• Experience coordinating nearshore or managed-service QA teams.
• Understanding of system integrations, microservices and digital commerce platforms.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving and risk-based decision-making.
• Ability to challenge constructively, establish accountability and lead through influence.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder management in Agile environments.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain a risk-based quality approach for releases.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering and DevOps to ensure measurable requirements.
• Design, execute and analyze manual and automated tests across component, API, integration, end-to-end, regression and exploratory levels.
• Promote Shift-Left practices by embedding quality activities earlier in the delivery lifecycle and supporting automated feedback within CI/CD pipelines.
• Coordinate testing activities across teams and releases, tracking scope, progress, environments, test data, dependencies, blockers and residual risks.
• Lead defect qualification, prioritization, investigation and follow-up, supporting root-cause analysis and risk-based decision-making.
• Own regression testing and automation improvement initiatives, increasing reliability, maintainability, traceability and relevance to production risks.
• Steer a nearshore managed testing service by aligning priorities, capacity, deliverables, operating routines, service levels and evidence of coverage.
• Maintain QA indicators, reporting definitions and source data, using metrics to support accountability, continuous improvement and transparent delivery decisions.
• Prepare quality status updates, release-risk assessments and test exit recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Manual testing

Automated testing

Test strategy

Risk-based testing

Agile delivery

Quality leadership

Stakeholder communication

Tools

GitLab

Git

CI/CD tooling

Robot Framework

Zephyr

Datadog

SonarQube

IntelliJ

VS Code

Insomnia

Job description

Hexa seeks a Lead Quality Assurance Engineer to strengthen quality engineering for a luxury digital commerce environment. The role blends hands-on testing, Agile delivery coordination and leadership of a nearshore testing service with a focus on early risk identification, automation and reliable release decisions.

You will drive risk-based testing, design and execute tests across API and end-to-end levels, promote Shift-Left in CI/CD, coordinate across Product, Engineering and DevOps, and lead