Senior Lead Engineer Kwaliteitszorg

ppNOWJOBS is part of House of HR and a 100% digital staffing platform for students, flexi-job workers, and people looking to earn extra income. Since making our debut in the App Store in 2017, our app has been downloaded more than one million times, over 25,000 companies have already found flexible workers through NOWJOBS, and nearly 650,000 people have earned extra income through the app /p pWe’re growing fast — and internationally too. We’re now active in the Netherlands, France, and Germany. In other words: it’s high time to expand our amazing team /p h3Where will you join us? /h3 pYou will become part of our Product Engineering department, where three development teams (Nova, Moondust, and Terra) work together to build and evolve our platform: a monorepo consisting of three frontend applications running on a shared backend (Node.js, TypeScript, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and Kubernetes). /p pAs QA Lead, you will own the entire Quality Assurance function across the department. This is a newly created, cross-functional role in which you define the quality standards for the entire organization and lead the QA Tribe. You ensure that our QA Engineers and Automation Engineers, embedded across the delivery teams, work according to the same standards, processes, and tooling. /p pFor each team, you will help strike the right balance between manual and automated testing, based on the risk profile of the product area. Your initial focus will be to ensure full coverage of our core user flows, after which you will gradually expand test coverage across the platform. /p pYou will report directly to the CTO and collaborate closely with Architects, Product Managers, and Team Leads. /p h3What will you do? /h3 pAs QA Lead, you will be responsible for quality across all development teams. /p h3The QA Function. /h3 pYou define the structure of the QA organization, set the hiring bar, and determine the right balance between manual and automated testing. Ultimately, you are accountable for the quality and test coverage of everything we build. /p h3QA Strategy. /h3 pYou define and drive the QA strategy across our three development teams (Nova, Moondust, and Terra). You ensure that quality is embedded early in the development lifecycle through a shift-left approach, rather than being treated as a final checkpoint. /p h3The QA Tribe. /h3 pYou lead the QA Tribe and ensure consistent adoption of shared standards, including the test pyramid, quality benchmarks, and supporting QA practices and artefacts. You create alignment and consistency across teams. /p h3Tooling. /h3 pIn close collaboration with the Architects, you make key decisions regarding test frameworks, test environments, and the infrastructure required for managing test data. /p h3People Leadership. /h3 pYou recruit QA Engineers and Automation Engineers, while supporting their growth through coaching, mentoring, and career development. /p h3Hands-On Contribution. /h3 pThis is not a purely managerial role. You remain actively involved in the codebase by designing, building, and maintaining automated test suites and their CI/CD integration. You establish the frameworks and foundations that teams build upon and contribute to the most challenging testing scenarios when needed. As the technical reference point for the Automation Engineers, you review their work, provide guidance, and lead by example. /p h3Reporting Stakeholder Management. /h3 pYou make quality KPIs, testing insights, and defect trends visible at an organizational level and act as the QA representative in cross-functional discussions with key stakeholders. /p h3What is outside your scope? /h3 pDay-to-day testing activities within the teams remain the responsibility of the QA Engineers. Architectural decisions are owned by the Architects, and the final go/no-go decision for a release is jointly made by the Team Lead, Product Owner, and Release Captain. Prioritization of QA work within a sprint is determined together with the Team Lead. /p h3Who are you? /h3 ul liYou hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field, or have equivalent professional experience. /li liYou bring extensive experience in software testing and quality assurance, with a strong understanding of both manual and automated testing practices. /li liYou have experience with, or a clear vision for, test strategy, the test pyramid, and establishing quality standards across multiple teams. /li liYou have experience in, or a strong affinity for, leading, coaching, and hiring people, and you enjoy building a strong quality-driven culture. /li liYou are familiar with test automation, CI/CD pipelines, and modern testing tooling, and can make well-founded decisions regarding frameworks, tooling, and test environments. /li liYou are data-driven and know how to make quality measurable through KPIs, testing metrics, and defect trend analysis. /li liYou communicate clearly and effectively, and can coll