As a Senior QA & Test Automation Lead, you will play a key role in shaping and advancing our customers’ quality assurance and test automation landscapes, as well as Nagarro’s services and accelerators in this area.
You will combine hands-on technical expertise with strategic consulting, RfPs & pre-sales presentations & discussions with customers, and leadership and mentoring responsibilities, working closely with customers and distributed teams.
Your responsibilities include:
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Leading and mentoring automation and QA teams, both on-site and in geographically distributed environments
- Consulting customers on test strategies, automation approaches, processes, and best practices to improve overall QA and QA automation maturity
- Applying AI-assisted approaches across the entire Test Life Cycle (TLC) to drive efficiency, quality, and maintainability
- Supporting pre-sales activities with QA & automation expertise, including customer presentations, solution design, and relationship building
- Creating test concepts and test automation concepts, estimating test efforts, planning and tracking test & automation activities, and evaluating test results and KPIs
- Ensuring high-quality, maintainable, and scalable automation solutions
- Architecting, designing, implementing, and evolving test automation frameworks and strategies for web, mobile, API, and desktop applications
- Staying up to date with emerging test automation tools, technologies, and industry trends
- Collaborating closely with cross-functional Agile teams to align test automation with sprint goals and delivery timelines
- Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement in testing processes and automation practices
- Designing and delivering trainings and knowledge transfer on QA and test automation topics
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10+ years of hands-on consulting experience in client projects covering end-to-end test automation, including several years in a senior, lead, or architect role
- Strong experience in test management, test strategies, test planning, control, KPIs, and risk management
- Strong knowledge of software development processes and Agile methodologies
- Hands-on experience in two or more programming languages, such as Java, C#, Python, Typescript/JavaScript, or similar
- Proven experience with a broad range of test automation and test management tools (eg TestRail, Zephyr, Xray) including: Playwright and other tools for Web & mobile (eg Selenium, Cypress, Appium, Detox), API (eg Rest Assured, Postman), BDD (eg Cucumber, SpecFlow), L&P (eg k6, JMeter), low-/no-code (eg Tosca, UIPath) and desktop UI (UIPath, Tosca, UFT, TestComplete)
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Experience in applying AI-assisted tools across the test lifecycle (TLC), for example for test design & automation using tools such as GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, Testim, Mabl is required.
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Experience with modern development and DevOps tooling to integrate test automation into CI/CD pipelines, including GitHub, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and Docker for containerized test execution.
- Experience in pre-sales discussions and RfPs
- Strong team-oriented mindset combined with flexibility, adaptability, a high sense of ownership, self-motivation, a continuous learning attitude, a CARING mindset, and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders at customers and within Nagarro
- Business fluent in German and English
- 30 days of vacation, internal and external training, MyN - Nagarro employee share program, company-funded accident insurance, modern office space at central locations with high-tech equipment, sports programs, corporate benefits portal, free fruit and drinks.
- Plenty of room for creative ideas and innovation in a high-growth environment. With us you can get involved and make a difference.
- Flat hierarchies and a long-term, stable job with attractive development opportunities.
