Senior QA Engineer

Role overview

This opportunity is for a senior quality assurance professional based in Germany, working with a partner organization in a mission-led technology environment. The team operates where healthcare, bioinformatics, and software engineering intersect, with a focus on a clinical platform relied on by researchers, laboratories, and healthcare professionals around the world.

You will help safeguard product quality, stability, and performance across the software lifecycle. The role has a strong emphasis on building and improving automation, strengthening testing practices, and partnering with cross-functional teams to release dependable software in a fast-moving but highly disciplined setting. It is well suited to someone who values technical rigor, continuous improvement, and work that has real-world impact in healthcare technology.

Key responsibilities

• Own both manual and automated testing efforts, while steadily increasing test coverage and widening automation across the delivery pipeline.
• Build, refine, and support test frameworks that enable scalable and efficient quality assurance processes.
• Contribute from early requirement and acceptance-criteria discussions through defect management and release sign-off.
• Develop strong product knowledge to help ensure consistent standards and dependable user experiences.
• Produce, update, and validate test documentation so it remains accurate, clear, and complete for critical workflows.
• Track testing status, risks, and quality indicators, and communicate them to the relevant stakeholders.
• Guide junior QA team members and encourage best practices, quality discipline, and ongoing improvement across engineering.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s and/or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Bioinformatics, or another STEM discipline.
• At least 4 years of professional QA experience, with a strong emphasis on automated testing.
• Hands-on experience creating, implementing, and maintaining automation frameworks and test cases.
• Strong Python programming skills, along with practical use of Selenium WebDriver and frameworks such as Pytest.
• Exposure to test management and documentation tools such as TestRail, Quality Center, or comparable systems.
• Working knowledge of API testing tools like Postman, SoapUI, or similar alternatives.
• Excellent analytical and troubleshooting ability, with careful attention to detail and a strong quality mindset.
• Comfort working independently while also collaborating effectively in distributed Agile teams.
• Professional fluency in English, both spoken and written.
• Experience in bioinformatics or genomics settings, as well as project management capability, would be a plus.

Benefits

• Compensation aligned with your background, expertise, and experience.
• A remote-first setup designed to support a healthy work-life balance.
• The chance to contribute to healthcare and precision medicine technologies with global reach.
• Ongoing learning and development in a fast-evolving scientific and technical domain.
• Exposure to modern technologies and opportunities to connect research advances with real clinical use.
• An international, collaborative team culture experienced in remote and Agile ways of working.
• Work that contributes meaningfully to healthcare progress, research, and patient outcomes.

Additional information

This role is posted on behalf of a partner company, which handles all applications and the next steps in the process. Applications are screened using an AI-assisted matching process to compare candidates against the role’s main requirements, and a shortlist is then passed to the hiring company. Final decisions, interviews, and assessments are managed internally by the employer.

Data privacy notice

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