Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Job Summary
Polestar is accelerating the transition to sustainable mobility through electric performance. Behind that journey sits a powerful digital platform enabling everything from checkout and payments to order management delivery retail tools and customer selfservice.
You will join a focused team working across a critical part of the customer journey building and validating solutions that customers globally and hundreds of internal users depend on every day. With real ownership close collaboration and global impact this role plays a key part in ensuring reliability performance and quality across Polestars digital ecosystem.
We are now looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join Polestar Digital at our headquarters in Gothenburg Sweden.
As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer you will ensure the reliability performance and quality of customerfacing digital products and internal platforms that support the vehicle purchasing journey.
You will work across frontend backend APIs and cloud infrastructure validating solutions and ensuring that features meet both business and technical requirements before release. Acting as a key partner to Software Engineers Product Managers Designers and Operations teams you will translate product requirements into effective test strategies and ensure that defects are identified early and resolved efficiently.
The role combines handson testing automation and continuous improvement of quality practices contributing to scalable and highquality systems used globally across markets and internal operations. You will also stay up to date with modern QA methodologies and emerging technologies including AIassisted testing approaches.
You will ensure highquality delivery across Polestars digital platforms by validating solutions improving test coverage and driving continuous improvement in quality practices.
Your responsibilities include:
Ensuring business requirements and acceptance criteria are fulfilled through comprehensive testing of user stories and system workflows
Designing executing and maintaining manual and automated tests across frontend backend APIs and integrations
Validating quality reliability performance and security of new platform capabilities and releases
Collaborating with Software Engineers Technical Leads Product Managers and Designers to translate product requirements into effective test strategies
Identifying documenting prioritizing and tracking defects while supporting teams in rootcause analysis and resolution
Contributing to test automation frameworks and improving overall test coverage and development practices
Working closely with crossfunctional agile teams to continuously improve software quality and delivery processes
Monitoring and evaluating quality metrics and contributing to continuous improvement initiatives
Staying up to date with industry best practices modern QA methodologies and emerging technologies including AIassisted testing approaches
Documenting test plans test results and quality standards across the development lifecycle
In your daily work you will collaborate closely with Software Engineers Product Managers Designers Technical Leads and Operations teams ensuring alignment across technical and business needs while driving quality across the full development lifecycle.
You are a structured and analytical quality professional with strong ownership and a proactive approach to ensuring highquality outcomes. You are comfortable working independently while collaborating closely with crossfunctional teams and you focus on identifying and resolving issues early to enable smooth and reliable delivery.
You combine handson testing expertise with a continuous improvement mindset and an interest in modern technologies shaping the future of software quality.
To be a great fit for this position we believe you have:
Strong knowledge and handson experience with Quality Assurance methodologies and software testing principles
Experience testing modern web applications and distributed systems across frontend and backend technologies
Experience with test automation tools and frameworks for UI API and integration testing
Understanding of React (C#) APIs and AWSbased systems from a testing perspective
Experience working with CI/CD pipelines GitHub workflows and containerized environments
Knowledge of Agile development methodologies and experience working in crossfunctional product teams
Strong analytical organizational problemsolving and communication skills
Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams and stakeholders
Experience with commerce payments financing order management or customer journey platforms is considered an advantage
Atleast 4 years of professional experience in Software Quality Assurance
We know that a change is needed. We also know that each one of us can help bring about that change. Our commitment to becoming climateneutral by 2040 is just as important to us as being inclusive diverse and innovative.
Together we are creating collaborating and experimenting to usher in a new era of sustainable mobility. We are an electric performance brand determined to improve the society we live in.
If you are interested in joining the Polestar crew dont wait to submit your application. We apply a continuous selection process and the job post will remain open until the position is filled.
As we move through the Swedish summer holiday season there may be a slight delay in our process. We look forward to getting back to you in August.
Send us your resume along with a short note on what makes this role interesting to you. We read everything.
Are you ready for the journey Which is electric by the way
About Company
Join a global team dedicated to improving the societies we live in through sustainable, electric mobility.