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Ernst & Young

Global professional services: consulting, assurance, tax

Quality & Release Lead

Test Automation EngineeringPosted on Nov 10
Full-timeMilan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy$35k - $45k

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of experience in Quality Engineering, DevOps, or Release Management, including at least 3 years in lead roles.
  • Experience defining test and release strategies for enterprise software products.
  • Proficiency with CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
  • Knowledge of frameworks and tools for test automation, performance testing, and security testing.
  • Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud, containers, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code.
  • Knowledge of branching strategies, semantic versioning, artifact management, and configuration management.
  • Experience with blue-green and canary release strategies, feature flags, and rollback procedures.
  • Knowledge of observability, incident management, change management, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.
  • Familiarity with GDPR, information security, auditability, and segregation of duties requirements.
  • Ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams and manage dependencies, risks, and priorities.

Responsibilities

  • Define and govern the end-to-end quality assurance, test automation, and release management strategy for Factory products, integrating environments, pipelines, and release discipline from the first commit.
  • Integrate quality, security, and compliance controls into CI/CD pipelines using a shift-left approach.
  • Define quality gates, Definition of Done, and acceptance criteria for each phase of the development lifecycle.
  • Govern the configuration, availability, and consistency of development, test, staging, and production environments.
  • Coordinate release planning, readiness checks, approvals, and stakeholder communications.
  • Promote automated unit, integration, end-to-end, performance, security, and resilience testing.
  • Define progressive deployment, rollback, feature flag, and emergency management strategies.
  • Ensure versioning and traceability of code and artifacts, segregation of duties, and production of audit evidence.
  • Monitor quality and delivery indicators, including defect leakage, test coverage, deployment frequency, and change failure rate.
  • For AI products, define regression and evaluation controls for models, prompts, data, and generated responses.
  • Coordinate defect and incident analysis and ensure corrective actions are implemented.
  • Guide adoption of best practices and mentor QA Engineers and development teams.

About the Company

Ernst & Young

Global professional services: consulting, assurance, tax

EY (Ernst & Young) provides professional services at a global scale, offering consulting, assurance, tax, and transaction advisory services. It serves clients across industries such as technology, media, real estate, hospitality, and construction. Instead of selling a single product, EY works with clients through tailored engagements where cross-disciplinary teams analyze challenges, design strategies, perform audits, help with tax planning, and assist with mergers or divestitures. What sets EY apart is its worldwide reach and integrated service model, industry-specific expertise, and focus on responsible business practices like sustainability, cybersecurity, and workforce flexibility. EY’s goal is to help organizations improve performance, manage risk, and achieve sustainable growth while building a better working world.

Company size
5,001-10,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Boston, MA
Founded
1991

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