Lead QA Engineer

Region: EMEA

Country: Poland, Croatia, and Portugal

Type: Fully remote

What's the Project?

Newfire Global Partners is a leading technology firm that specializes in building transformative software solutions for some of the world’s most innovative companies. With a presence across four continents, Newfire Global brings deep expertise in digital healthcare, AI-driven analytics, and enterprise technology. The firm’s track record of delivering scalable, high-impact solutions has made it a trusted partner for organizations seeking to drive meaningful change through technology.

We are passionate about the purpose-driven mission to help improve the quality of care for patients and are building a collaborative, innovative, and inclusive culture. We are a fully funded company founded by serial entrepreneurs with a stable client base.

Opportunity for impact

Newfire Global Partners, a leader in developing disruptive healthcare technology, collaborates with Fortune 500 companies and start-ups to drive transformation.

Newfire is seeking a Lead Manual QA Engineer

What's the Project?
The project is delivering a high-confidence, high-security, high-flexibility platform for managing clinical experience and health records for US healthcare. The QA activities on that project will be performed very closely with the engineering team and the end users, spanning both functional and non-functional tests, like security, scalability or performance. The company is investing in AI-related capabilities and tools to enhance the structure, quality, and efficiency of testing.

Role Overview
The Lead Quality Engineer is responsible for designing and executing the overall testing strategy, including performance testing activities for a broad range of applications and platforms. This individual will drive an overall testing strategy with the proper mix of business knowledge and technical leadership. Planning activities involve working closely with architects and technical leads to define the long-term strategy for repeatable and scalable performance testing activities within the organization. Duties also include creating quality standards for products and testing systems for efficiency, reliability and performance.

You’re a perfect match if you have:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or an IT related discipline plus 5 years related experience, in lieu of a master’s degree.
8+ years of experience in functional, non-functional, regression and acceptance testing.
Strong knowledge in QA methodologies and standards, preferably confirmed by relevant certifications.
Experience in working with software specifications and documentation.
Thorough process knowledge on all phases of Agile and software releases.
Excellent analytical, debugging, planning, organizational and communication skills.
Proven experience leading QA teams and mentoring QA engineers
Experience driving QA process improvements and promoting testing best practices.
Understanding of DB and behavior-driven testing is required for this role; MongoDB and Databricks testing experience is strongly preferred.
Knowledge of Agile and JIRA.
Strong collaboration, reporting and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across development, product, and production support teams.
Experience with web application testing.
Experience in breaking the system and thinking out of the box while doing functional testing.
Detail-oriented and comfortable working with developers, product owners and other project stakeholders.
Should have worked in an offshore model.

Nice to have:

Playwright and Selenium experience
Healthcare application testing experience is a plus.
Experience testing AI-powered features and applications.
Experience using AI-assisted testing tools to improve test design, automation, and execution

Please note that employment will be contingent upon providing documentation verifying your legal work authorization in the country of residence, in accordance with applicable law.

Your day-to-day activities:

Develop and improve test strategy, test standards, test plans, test reports, and QA processes
Organize and manage test design and implementation tasks on a project for
yourself and the whole QA team (8-10 people)
Conduct and report on the analysis of test results and coverage factors.
Develop and execute tests for end-to-end scenarios, reported customer-facing
issues, and other externally initiated sources.
Participate in requirements discussions and identify requirements that may be
missing, wrong, or lacking clarity.
Ensure proper communication occurs with the project teams on the test status,
issues and deployment risk.
Work with development and project management to troubleshoot issues, manage change and mitigate risk.

Ready to dive in?

Danyila Syvulka
Recruiter

EET

danyila.kravchuk@newfireglobal.com

Hiring Process

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Applied

Stage 2

Interview

Stage 3

Technical Interview

Stage 4

CSM Interview

Stage 5

Verbal offer

Stage 6

Offer Letter

Stage 7

Background Check

Stage 8

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