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Job Location drjobs

Cologne - Germany

Monthly Salary drjobs

Not Disclosed

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Salary Not Disclosed

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Were seeking a driven Quality Engineer to join one of Europes fastest-growing legal tech companies. Our AI-powered products are already in market; now we need rock-solid quality practices to scale with confidence. This role lets you design and execute test strategies build automation suites and champion the tooling and processes that keep our platform reliable secure and delightful to use.

Reporting to the Engineering Lead and partnering closely with the Head of Engineering youll work hands-on across the stackdefining quality gates in CI/CD crafting automated tests (API UI E2E performance) and instrumenting observability to catch issues before users do. Youll collaborate with product and engineering teams to embed quality early (shift left) and ensure every release meets a high bar.

For an engineer with deep experience in test automation modern QA practices and data-driven quality metrics this is a chance to have real product impact learn from seasoned leaders and help scale quality across the company.

Your Challenge and Opportunity in This Role

This is a rare opportunity to shape how quality is engineered and enforced in a rapidly evolving product ecosystem. As a core Quality Engineer youll be both implementer and innovatortranslating best-in-class QA methods into day-to-day workflows. Youll help define what production-ready truly means for our users while laying the foundation for scalable automated and observable quality systems. Expect deep ownership continuous learning and meaningful influence on how our engineering organization matures across teams and markets.

Tasks

Quality Strategy & Implementation:

  • Architect and roll out end-to-end test automation frameworks (API UI E2E performance) integrated into CI/CD.
  • Plan and implement a QA strategy as well as performing some manual QA task when necessary.
  • Define and enforce best practices for quality engineering test data management and release gating across products.
  • Build observability and quality metrics dashboards to detect regressions early and drive data-backed improvements.
  • Own hands-on test design scripting and tooling early on as the core technical contributor.
  • Continuously harden environments (staging/sandbox) to mirror production and support reliable repeatable testing.

Cross-functional Collaboration:

  • Partner with product design and engineering to shift leftbaking quality into requirements designs and code reviews.
  • Communicate test results risks and trade-offs clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Coach developers on testing patterns and quality-minded delivery; champion a culture of preventive QA over reactive fixes.
  • Coordinate with DevOps/SRE to align monitoring alerting and incident postmortems with quality objectives.

Requirements

Technical Expertise:

  • German speaking proficiency for end customer interactions
  • Advanced UI/E2E automation with Cypress (component tests custom commands fixtures parallel runs).
  • GitHub Actions pro: build/test pipelines matrix jobs caching artifact management flaky-test quarantine.
  • Docker-first testing: reproducible local/CI environments ephemeral test stacks service mocking.
  • Robust QA processes: shift-left testing risk-based test planning clear exit criteria release gating in CI/CD.
  • Strong scripting/programming skills in Python to build and extend test frameworks.
  • API and contract testing (pytest/requests or Postman/Newman) plus performance checks (k6/Locust) as needed.
  • Test data & environment management (seed scripts synthetic data sandbox parity with production).
  • Metrics & observability: defining quality KPIs wiring tests to dashboards/alerts for continuous feedback.
  • Excellent communicatortranslates findings and risks for engineers PMs and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Persistent problem-solver focused on automating away manual toil and delivering reliable user value.

Benefits

Foundational Impact Help to deliver our QA strategy from the ground up

Technical Ownership Full ownership of our QA processes across multiple stacks

Growth Environment Work at the cutting edge of generative AI and LLMs

Leadership Visibility Flat hierarchy with access to Head of Engineering and CTO

Fully Remote Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere
Top Equipment State-of-the-art MacBook plus all the accessories you need
Wellbeing Perks Urban Sports Club membership to support your healthy lifestyle

If youre passionate about pushing the boundaries of whats possible with Test Automation and want to be part of the technical development of innovative AI products wed love to hear from you!

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