QA Automatizado - Líder COE

Accountabilities

• Lead and develop QA and Testing professionals, providing technical mentorship, career guidance, continuous learning opportunities, and support for talent retention.

• Establish, evolve, and govern quality standards, testing frameworks, processes, methodologies, and best practices across projects and teams.

• Lead and structure the QA/Test Center of Excellence (COE), strengthening technical capabilities and promoting consistent approaches to software quality.

• Build and maintain the technical roadmap for the QA discipline, ensuring teams remain aligned with evolving tools, technologies, industry practices, and quality engineering trends.

• Promote Quality Engineering, Shift-Left Testing, continuous quality practices, defect prevention, and the integration of testing throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Drive the evolution of test automation and the integration of automated testing into CI/CD pipelines, including the implementation and improvement of Quality Gates.

• Support the adoption and evolution of SAI App 3.0 and encourage the effective use of emerging technologies within testing practices.

• Contribute to team allocation, capacity planning, project sizing, and workforce composition based on effort estimates, seniority, competencies, and project requirements.

• Partner closely with Client Faces, customers, technical leaders, and other stakeholders to align QA strategies with business and project needs.

• Define and implement testing strategies covering functional, regression, integration, End-to-End, API, performance, and load testing.

• Contribute to technical proposals and pricing activities, ensuring QA scope, effort, staffing, and delivery considerations are accurately represented.

• Promote the use of Artificial Intelligence in Quality and Testing, including AI-assisted test case generation, test data creation, automation acceleration, and defect analysis.

Requirements:

• Solid professional experience defining and implementing software testing strategies, with strong technical expertise across modern QA and Quality Engineering practices.

• Strong knowledge of functional, regression, integration, and End-to-End testing throughout the software development lifecycle.

• Hands-on experience with Shift-Left Testing and quality practices embedded throughout development and delivery processes.

• Experience with test automation tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, and/or RestAssured, as well as API automation and testing.

• Knowledge of performance and load testing using tools such as JMeter and/or k6.

• Experience implementing Quality Gates and integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.

• Proven experience leading and mentoring QA teams and technical professionals, with the ability to develop talent and establish technical standards.

• Strong ability to define frameworks, governance models, processes, and quality standards across multiple teams or projects.

• Experience with project and QA team sizing, effort estimation, seniority planning, competency mapping, and workforce composition.

• Professional experience contributing to technical proposals and pricing, with an understanding of how QA scope and effort translate into project requirements.

• Practical knowledge of Artificial Intelligence applied to Testing and Quality, including AI-assisted test case generation, test data generation, automation acceleration, and AI-supported defect analysis.

• Advanced English or Spanish proficiency is required for collaboration with clients and nearshore/LATAM teams.

• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with customers, leadership, and technical teams.

• Strategic thinking combined with a hands-on approach and the ability to translate modern QA practices into scalable standards and measurable improvements.

• ISTQB certification is a plus, as is experience with security testing, large-scale Quality Engineering environments, and multi-client or multinational organizations.

Benefits:

• Meal or food allowance.

• Discounts on courses, universities, and language institutions.

• Access to an online learning platform offering free, regularly updated courses with certificates.

• Mentoring opportunities.

• Benefits program providing access to consultations and medical examinations.

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Discount and benefits club with offers from a wide range of establishments.

• Travel benefits and discounts.

• Pet benefits and partner services.

• Opportunities for continuous professional development and technical learning.

• Exposure to modern Quality Engineering, test automation, CI/CD, Shift-Left practices, and AI-enabled testing.