Senior QA Engineer (Automation / Fullstack)
Remote · Germany or DE
Job Summary
Senior QA Engineer (Quality Enablement) focuses on improving product quality across the organization by helping teams define and improve testing strategies, reviewing test scenarios and automated tests, analyzing defects and flaky tests, educating teams on testing and automation, preventing production incidents, contributing to test frameworks, and ensuring test automation does not degrade CI performance. The role requires collaboration with engineers, product teams, and QA engineers, a strong background in JavaScript/TypeScript and React for frontend and Node.js/NestJS for backend, experience in building or maintaining test frameworks, and an ownership mindset to drive quality improvements. Remote role with CET hours, part of a global, distributed team operating across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in testing web client-server applications
- 3+ years of experience in test automation
- Hands-on experience writing automated tests (E2E / integration)
- Experience with JavaScript / TypeScript
- Understanding of frontend architecture (React)
- Understanding of backend architecture (Node.js / NestJS)
- Experience developing or maintaining test frameworks
- Strong understanding of testing levels (unit / integration / E2E)
- Experience writing test scenarios or defining test strategy
- Experience reviewing automated tests (code review)
- Experience with CI/CD (Jenkins or similar)
- Docker (images, networks, volumes, docker-compose)
- Ability to influence quality through processes, not only code
- Strong communication skills
- Ownership mindset and willingness to take responsibility for quality decisions
- Nice to Have: Experience introducing testing or automation processes in teams
- Experience working with quality metrics (flaky rate, coverage, CI performance)
- Experience analyzing defects and improving processes
- Experience conducting trainings, workshops, or mentoring
- Experience working across multiple product teams
- Experience building or evolving E2E frameworks
- Experience reducing flaky tests and optimizing CI
- Experience in platform or enablement teams
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