Senior QA & Test Automation Lead (all genders)

As a Senior QA & Test Automation Lead, you will play a key role in shaping and advancing our customers’ quality assurance and test automation landscapes, as well as Nagarro’s services and accelerators in this area.
You will combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic consulting, RfPs & pre-sales presentations & discussions with customers, and leadership and mentoring responsibilities, working closely with customers and distributed teams.

Your responsibilities include:

• Leading and mentoring automation and QA teams, both on-site and in geographically distributed environments
• Consulting customers on test strategies, automation approaches, processes, and best practices to improve overall QA and QA automation maturity
• Applying AI-assisted approaches across the entire Test Life Cycle (TLC) to drive efficiency, quality, and maintainability
• Supporting pre-sales activities with QA & automation expertise, including customer presentations, solution design, and relationship building
• Creating test concepts and test automation concepts, estimating test efforts, planning and tracking test & automation activities, and evaluating test results and KPIs
• Ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and scalable automation solutions
• Architecting, designing, implementing, and evolving test automation frameworks and strategies for web, mobile, API, and desktop applications
• Staying up to date with emerging test automation tools, technologies, and industry trends
• Collaborating closely with cross-functional Agile teams to align test automation with sprint goals and delivery timelines
• Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in testing processes and automation practices
• Designing and delivering trainings and knowledge transfer on QA and test automation topics

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on consulting experience in client projects covering end-to-end test automation, including several years in a senior, lead, or architect role
• Strong experience in test management, test strategies, test planning, control, KPIs, and risk management
• Strong knowledge of software development processes and Agile methodologies
• Hands-on experience in two or more programming languages, such as Java, C#, Python, Typescript/JavaScript, or similar
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with a hands-on mindset
• Business-fluent German and English
• Hands-on experience in two or more languages such as Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, or similar
• Proven experience with a broad range of test automation and test management tools (eg TestRail, Zephyr, Xray) including: Playwright and other tools for Web & mobile (eg Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Detox), API (eg Rest Assured, Postman), BDD (eg Cucumber, SpecFlow), L&P (eg k6, JMeter), low-/no-code (eg Tosca, UIPath) and desktop UI (UIPath, Tosca, UFT, TestComplete)
• Experience in applying AI-assisted tools across the test lifecycle (TLC), for example for test design & automation using tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Testim, Mabl is required.
• Experience with modern development and DevOps tooling to integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Docker for containerized test execution.
• Experience in leading & mentoring teams
• Experience in pre-sales discussions and RfPs
• Strong team-oriented mindset combined with flexibility, adaptability, a high sense of ownership, self-motivation, a continuous learning attitude, a CARING mindset, and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at customers and within Nagarro
• Business fluent in German and English

Additional Information

Why working for us is great:

• Flexible Working Time - Always adapting to your current needs
• Flexible Working Place - "Work from anywhere" mindset (remote or from the Vienna office)
• Corporate Health - Because we care for you
• Social Events - We get together and have fun
• Unique Corporate Culture - In our hearts, not just talk
• The latest Technology - For the brightest minds
• Development Initiatives - Life long learning is not a cliché
• Modern Office - Where everyone feels welcome 

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Gross monthly salary depending on qualifications, experience and salary model between € 5.500,- and € 8.000,-.

About the Company

Nagarro helps future-proof your business through a forward-thinking, fluidic, and CARING mindset. We excel at digital engineering and help our clients become human-centric, digital-first organizations, augmenting their ability to be responsive, efficient, intimate, creative, and sustainable. Today, we are nearly 18,300 experts across 37 countries, forming a Nation of Nagarrians, ready to help our customers succeed.