QA Leader

About the role

To strengthen our team in Milan we are currently looking for a QA Leader.

Responsibilities

• 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, sable 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.
• 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 ss for both web and mobile.
• Define and own the mobile quality strategy for our native iOS (Swift/Obj-C) and Android (Kotlin/Java) applications — device/OS coverage matrices, automated s suites, and regression coverage across upgrade cycles and client-specific environments.
• Act as the quality authority across the engineering organisation — not through hierarchy, but through expertise and trust, which will be the key focus.
• Run regular quality alignment meetings, coach developers and QA engineers, and advocate for sability at the design stage before problems become expensive.
• Contribute to improving development and sing workflows in a modern engineering environment and actively participate in release validation, defect management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• 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 sing 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.
• Strong experience with web and API sing methodologies (Postman, REST-assured).
• Proven ability with s 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.

Qualifications

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

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.

Pay

Remuneration commensurate with seniority and experience.

Schedule

Hybrid working arrangement based in Milan.

Benefits

• Welfare
• Ticket
• Health insurance
• Discounts with our partners.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.