Senior Quality Engineer [Remote]

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Quality Engineer in Austria.

Join a globally distributed technology team dedicated to building innovative digital experiences that positively impact millions of users worldwide. In this role, you will play a key part in embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle, partnering closely with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders. You will help shape testing strategies, influence engineering practices, and drive scalable quality initiatives across modern cloud-based applications. Working in a collaborative, remote-first environment, you will contribute to the evolution of quality engineering practices while supporting high-performing teams that value innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement. This is an exciting opportunity to influence product excellence and help define the future of quality engineering in a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

Accountabilities:

• Define and lead the quality strategy within a cross-functional product squad, ensuring testing approaches align with business objectives, technical complexity, and product risks.
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams during planning, refinement, and design phases to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and measurable.
• Enable development teams to take ownership of quality by promoting effective testing practices and supporting the implementation of automated testing across multiple layers.
• Establish and maintain scalable testing frameworks, automation patterns, quality standards, and testing boundaries that support long-term maintainability.
• Conduct exploratory testing in complex, high-risk, or business-critical areas to identify issues and validate product behavior.
• Drive adoption of quality tools, CI/CD best practices, and shared engineering standards to improve software reliability and delivery efficiency.
• Provide visibility into product quality by identifying risks, highlighting coverage gaps, and communicating trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of quality engineering practices by sharing expertise, mentoring team members, and supporting broader organizational initiatives.
• Explore and promote modern approaches to quality engineering, including AI-assisted testing and automation strategies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Software Quality Assurance, or a related role within cross-functional product teams.
• Proven experience working with complex software systems, including APIs, distributed architectures, cloud-based platforms, or multi-layer applications.
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing levels.
• Hands-on experience with test automation and a solid understanding of how automated testing integrates into modern software delivery practices.
• Experience working in environments where development teams are responsible for testing and quality ownership.
• Ability to guide engineering teams in developing effective test coverage strategies and making pragmatic, risk-based quality decisions.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, continuous delivery practices, and quality assurance within agile development environments.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical thinking and sound judgment when balancing product quality, delivery speed, and business priorities.
• Experience with modern testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, REST-assured, Postman, or similar solutions is a plus.
• Familiarity with test data management, service virtualization, mocking frameworks, and cloud-native environments is advantageous.
• Working knowledge of programming or scripting languages such as JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python is desirable.

Benefits

• Fully remote work environment with flexibility to work from anywhere in India.
• Long-term, full-time contract opportunity with stable engagement.
• Opportunity to contribute to products used by millions of consumers worldwide.
• Collaborative, diverse, and highly supportive international team culture.
• Exposure to cutting-edge technologies across AI, digital health, connected devices, and consumer applications.
• Strong emphasis on innovation, continuous learning, and professional growth.
• Opportunity to shape modern quality engineering practices and influence engineering standards at scale.
• Recognition-focused culture with a strong commitment to employee wellbeing and engagement.
• Flexible and autonomous working environment that promotes work-life balance.

How Jobgether works:

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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