QA Leader

Main Activities

Test Strategy & Governance

Define and own the overall test strategy across squads — coverage targets, risk-based priorities, regression approach, and a Definition of Done with real teeth.

Facilitate Three Amigos sessions (BA + Dev + QA) before each sprint, ensuring acceptance criteria are written, testable and tracked in Jira before a single line of code is committed.

build upgrade and release checklists that prevent the kind of regression incidents that erode client confidence.

Automation & Tooling

Define and evolve the test automation framework end-to-end: architecture, tooling choices, standards, long-term maintenance.

Design and maintain CI/CD quality gates that block defective code before it reaches production, and define coverage standards across unit, integration, end-to-end and regression tests for both web and mobile.

Mobile Quality

Define and own the testing strategy for our native iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin/Java) applications — device/OS coverage matrices, automated test suites, and regression coverage across upgrade cycles and client-specific environments.

Cross-Squad Quality Leadership

Act as the quality authority across the engineering organisation — not through hierarchy, but through expertise and trust, which will be the key focus.

Running regular quality alignment meetings, coaching developers and QA engineers, and advocating for testability at the design stage before problems become expensive.

contribute to improving development and testing workflows in a modern engineering environment and actively participate in release validation, defect management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Candidate's Experience and Qualifications

• 5+ years in software quality engineering, at least 2 in a senior or lead individual contributor role.

• Experience in building automation frameworks from scratch

• Hands-on experience with native mobile testing on iOS and/or Android (Appium, XCTest, Espresso or equivalent).

• Experience or strong familiarity with Agile/Scrum environments and you understand where quality fits in the delivery cycle — not after it.

• Demonstrated capability with Frontend automation for Angular/TypeScript (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or equivalent)

• Strong experience with web and API testing methodologies (Postman, REST-assured)

• Proven ability with test management tooling (Jira Xray, Zephyr or equivalent)

• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline integration and quality gate design

• Proven knowledge of English language – written and spoken

• Background in fintech, banking or regulated software environments is a genuine advantage.

Candidate's Skills and Personal Qualities

Ability to challenge existing practices constructively and propose improvements.

Ability to balance quality objectives with delivery timelines.

strong communication and collaboration skills.

Ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority.

What We Offer

Direct collaboration with engineering leadership and cross-functional product teams.

The opportunity to contribute to software solutions supporting investment professionals across more than 15 countries.

An engineering team committed to evolving its practices and continuously improving the quality of its products and processes.

Hybrid working arrangement based in Milan.

Permanent employment with remuneration commensurate with seniority and experience. 

Salary range: €45.000 - up to €55.000 gross annual salary (RAL). The actual final compensation package and CCNL level may vary based on several factors, including, but not limited to, job-related qualifications such as knowledge, skills, education, and experience.

Benefits — e.g. welfare, ticket, health insurance, discounts with our partners.