Lead QA
Are you passionate about software quality and test automation? Do you have leadership experience and enjoy coaching teams while defining quality strategy? Are you looking to drive quality excellence across multiple teams in an international environment? Then, this job might be for you!
Job description and responsibilities:
Within a cross-functional engineering organization, as a Lead QA, you will define and drive the test strategy for your domain, mentor QA Engineers, and ensure high-quality delivery across multiple teams. You will act as both a technical expert and a quality leader.
As part of your missions, you will:
- Define and align the test strategy for your scope with the overall quality strategy
- Prioritize testing efforts and set quality criteria for your domain
- Coordinate test execution across teams and ensure comprehensive quality coverage
- Define testing standards and drive technical excellence within your scope
- Measure test coverage, defect detection rates, and quality metrics; report to stakeholders
- Identify quality risks and coordinate their resolution across teams
- Optimize QA Engineer capacity and balance manual vs automated testing efforts
- Facilitate test planning sessions, QA retrospectives, and risk analysis workshops
- Coach and mentor QA Engineers on test strategies, tools, and best practices
- Participate in QA Engineer recruitment and onboarding
- Promote a quality culture and contribute to continuous process improvement
What we are looking for:
- Proven experience in QA engineering with a track record of leading quality initiatives
- Good understanding of test automation frameworks and CI/CD pipelines
- Experience defining and implementing test strategies at team or domain level
- Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies and quality ceremonies
- Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (e.g. Xray, Jira)
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to coach and develop technical team members
- Good verbal and written communication skills in French
- Great to have:
- Experience with performance, security, or API testing tools
- Experience with CI/CD environments
- Background in software development or technical architecture
- Experience working in distributed or international teams

