Lead Quality Engineer

About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well‑balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers.

Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt.

As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we’ve empowered over 21,000 merchants and 8 million consumers.

With 360+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe—and we’re just getting started.

Alma is the company for you if are looking for:

Collective intelligence is the driving force behind Alma: we are looking for open-minded, curious, and ambitious people who want to actively participate in this exponential growth.

To continue to deliver an optimal purchasing experience and absolute ease of use, all teams at Alma (Tech, Product, Sales, Operations, Data, Risk, Finance, Compliance, Legal, Marketing and People) will strengthen their members to maintain the highest standards of quality and trust while pushing these innovations at Alma’s pace.

About the mission

We are looking for a Lead QA Engineer to scale quality excellence across our growing organization. You'll balance hands-on contribution with strategic leadership, shaping our QA strategy and culture.

Your mission: coordinate a community of QA Engineers, embed quality practices across all squads, and drive the standards that will define how we approach quality company-wide.

Your responsibilities

• Define and evolve the company's QA strategy, setting standards, tools, and methodologies across all Tribes
• Lead and mentor the QA community, fostering collaboration and driving the Community of Practice
• Act as the quality advocate in strategic product and engineering discussions
• Engage early in product development to identify edge cases and define the testing strategies
• Support developers in writing better automated tests and encourage manual testing
• Conduct exploratory testing campaigns and hands-on testing to maintain deep product knowledge and assess overall product quality
• Ensure test suite quality and reliability, supporting developers in test maintenance and contributing to CI/CD improvements
• Track quality metrics, identify trends, drive data-driven improvements, and provide regular quality reporting

Our technical stack

• Backend: Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Postgres, Redis.
• Frontend: React, Typescript, Jest, Playwright.
• Tooling: Datadog, Sentry, Github Actions

Your profile

• 5+ years as a QA Engineer, QA Lead, or Lead Software Engineer in Test, ideally in agile, cross-functional product teams.
• Experience building or scaling QA teams and practices in a fast-growing product company.
• Proven ability to define and implement QA strategies in a growing organization.
• Strong leadership skills with experience mentoring and coordinating other QA professionals.
• Deep understanding of automated and manual testing best practices.
• Able to analyze test results, identify patterns, and drive systematic improvements.
• Excellent communication skills – able to work with developers, PMs, engineering leadership, and other QAs.
• Autonomous, pragmatic, and able to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
• Curious and product-minded — eager to understand how things work and where they can fail.
• Good level in English (spoken and written).

Nice to Have

• Experience facilitating communities of practice or guilds.
• Experience with or knowledge of Playwright and Gherkin is a strong plus.
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines, especially GitHub Actions.

About the recruitment process

• Phone interview with Recruiter (30-45 mins)
• Interview with Hiring Manager (60 mins)
• Take-home test, following by a remote feedback session (30 mins)
• Case study interview (60 mins)
• Team Fit interview (60 mins)

More information on the hiring process can be found in our Interview Guide 

You're not sure if you meet 100% of the criteria and that's making you hesitate to apply?

👉 At Alma, we believe that diversity drives innovation and strengthens our community and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to contribute. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences. All employment decisions are made based on qualifications, experiences, merit, and business needs without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic.

So please take your chance, apply anyway!