The Opportunity
As our Software Test Lead, you will own the strategy for testing our cloud-native SaaS applications and ensure they meet high standards of reliability, performance, and compliance.
This is more than a testing role - you will be a strategic leader, shaping our QA processes, defining our technology stack, and pioneering the use of AI in our workflows. By mentoring a talented team of QA engineers and embedding quality into our CI/CD pipelines, you will directly impact the speed and confidence with which we deploy software that improves healthcare.
Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
- Own and evolve test strategies, frameworks, and quality standards for cloud-based healthcare software.
- Drive integration of AI and automation into testing workflows to improve efficiency and coverage.
- Serve as quality advocate in architecture decisions, risk assessments, and release planning.
- Collaborate closely with development, operations, product, and quality management teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
Team Development
- Lad, coach, and grow QA/Test engineers; run 1:1s, feedback, and development plans; set clear goals and review performance.
- Yoster a culture of quality excellence and continuous improvement across engineering teams
Operational Excellence
- Own and optimize test processes, including automation, manual testing, and CI/CD integration.
- Establish metrics, reporting and quality gates that enable frequent, reliable deployments.
- Ensure comprehensive test documentation, defect tracking, and transparent status reporting across projects.
Professional competencies
- Strong leadership and communication skills.
- Experience in software testing (manual and automated), ideally in healthcare or regulated environments.
- Strong background in cloud-based SaaS testing (performance, smoke, canary and A/B releases, scalability).
- Familiarity with modern test tools, frameworks, and methodologies (e.g. Playwright, GoLang test runner, SonarQube, Postman).
- Familiarity with relevant regulations in the healthcare industry is a plus (ISO 13485, IEC 62304, MDR, FHIR, etc.).
- Solid understanding of agile and DevSecOps practices.
- Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities.
Personal competencies
- You are a proactive, results-oriented personality with strong problem-solving skills.
- You excel at building relationships and collaborating across distributed, multidisciplinary teams.
- You are self-motivated and balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
- You possess a passion for technology and a desire to continuously learn and grow.
- You stay productive and capable of acting even in critical situations.
- You communicate fluently in English. It would be a plus if you have knowledge in Spanish and German.
B. Braun Medical, S.A. U. | Aitana Altuna