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Job title: Head of Software Testing
Employment status: Full-time
Location: Vienna, Austria – Hybrid
Compensation: Competitive compensation + performance-based bonus and equity options
Benefits: Wiener Linien ticket, yearly company retreat, regular team events, free in-office lunch, drinks & snacks
About Ketryx
At Ketryx, we’re on a mission to help medical software teams build secure, reliable applications that make a real difference in people’s lives. We give them the tools to automate the tough parts of compliance and quality so they can focus on what matters most: creating life-saving products with confidence.
The Role
As Head of Software Testing, you’ll define and execute our quality strategy, ensuring that every release of our platform meets the highest standards of safety, reliability, performance, and compliance. You’ll lead a talented team of software quality engineers, testing product features and strengthening our automated testing frameworks, and play a vital role in helping medical device companies bring high-quality technology to market faster. As a quality professional, you will have an impact on our own product that you will also use on a daily basis.
About You
You’re a proven leader in software quality who knows how to build high-performing teams and scalable testing systems. You combine a deep passion for reliability with strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset. You’re detail-oriented, enjoy uncovering edge cases, and take pride in building reliable, maintainable automated tests. You thrive in fast-moving environments where you can influence processes, improve standards, and shape product direction. Above all, you’re motivated to apply your expertise to technology that directly improves patient outcomes.
Ideally you're already located in Vienna or able to relocate quickly. Unfortunately, we are unable to support people without an existing work permit for this position in Austria at this time.
What You’ll Do
- Lead and grow the quality engineering team
- Plan and coordinate verification & validation for software releases and other testing activities
- Drive scaling up of automated testing with a team using Playwright, TypeScript, Cucumber
- Work with the team to keep CI/CD pipelines fast and reliable
- Coordinate work between different teams such as Engineering, DevOps, Product, Customer Success, and Sales, representing the quality and test engineering team
- Own verification & validation for software releases
- Apply quality principles at scale
- Perform risk management
- Prepare and field audits (IEC 62304 & co.)
- Champion a quality-first culture across product and engineering
- Define, track, and share goals and metrics for test automation & product quality, to keep leadership and stakeholders informed and to identify areas for improvement
What We’re Looking For
Must-Haves
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in software quality and testing, with at least 5 years in leadership
- Experience in a high-growth company
- Experience in establishing and running processes to improve overall quality
- Hands-on experience with TypeScript or JavaScript
- Practical experience with test automation tools such as Playwright or Cypress
- Strong knowledge of software QA methodologies, tools, and processes
- Familiarity with BDD practices, ideally using Cucumber
- Experience working in an early stage, product-based start up.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience preparing for and managing audits
- Experience working in a regulated industry such as MedTech, healthcare, finance, automotive, or aerospace
- Experience using test case management tools such as Xray, TestRail, Azure DevOps, or HP ALM
- Experience with performance and security testing
- Knowledge of ISO 13485 / IEC 62304
Compensation & Benefits
- At Ketryx, we offer a competitive compensation package that reflects your experience and skills. The annual gross salary starts at €100,000+ based on an all-in contract. Final compensation is tailored to your qualifications and experience.
- In addition to the base salary, our package includes a performance-based bonus and stock options, aligning your success with the company’s growth.
- Lunch, snacks, and coffee provided in-office
- Annual Wiener Linien public transportation pass
- Yearly company retreat and regular team events
Keywords: quality lead, test automation engineer, QA, Verification & Validation, V-Model, change request, change requirement, regulation, feature descriptions, SaaS, customer feedback, computer science, comp sci, startup, software development, Series A, Series B, technology, software
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Generous stock options possible
- Work in an exciting field with a positive impact on the world
- Opportunity to learn and grow as part of a global team
- Generous PTO for full-time
Ketryx is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances
Ketryx is saving and improving lives by making medical software safe and reliable. We empower software teams building medical applications to create safe, secure, and compliant products used by patients and providers worldwide. We believe that, by automating much of the documentation and quality processes, teams will be able to produce safer and more innovative medical software faster.
Ketryx is at the forefront of helping teams incorporate AI/ML into medical software and that’s why we need you!
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With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.
We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.
The position
You'll be joining a team of engineers across Frontend, Backend, SRE and QA. We're organised into cross-functional development teams assigned to specific verticals.
This role is open for several teams, and we will define the exact team that you will be joining during the interview process based on the business needs and your preferences.
Regardless of the specific team, you will be working on building tools, APIs and integrations for one of our products.
Our backend is built with Elixir and Phoenix, with a Postgres database. We use React and Nextjs for our front-end. Gitlab is used as a version control tool, issue tracker and a CI/CD solution. Our applications are hosted on AWS. We fully rely on our CI for deployments and deploy multiple times per day.
What this job can offer you
- Complex and meaningful challenges — solving them will enable people and businesses to live and operate in any country of the world.
- Opportunity to have a significant impact on the business — we are still very early in our journey as a company, and each change you make today is amplified by the company's growth.
- A lot of freedom to organize your work and life — you are not bound to daily standups, recurring meetings or other ceremonies.
- Competitive salary, stock options, flexible paid time off, and a set of perks and benefits.
- A supportive and kind work environment where we would like you to challenge the dogmas and pursue innovation!
- Strong team of experienced engineers who will support and facilitate your professional growth.
What you bring
Must have (professional experience):
- Strong engineering fundamentals and a track record of shipping production systems that are secure, reliable, and scalable.
- Practical experience designing or adopting agentic/automation workflows (or comparable systems) and improving them through iteration.
- Ability to think in systems: define specs clearly, break down plans, instrument verification, and close the loop on quality.
- Postgres (or similar).
- CI/CD (GitLab, Github, Jenkins or similar).
Nice to have
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- AWS
- Nextjs
- React/Vue/Angular
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the development of major team-scoped projects, participate in cross-team initiatives for Remote's HR and Payroll products.
- Actively participate in product work in the team: provide feedback, suggest solutions to the problems. Use technical insights and expertise to suggest product improvements.
- Maintain good understanding of the team’s domain, both from product and engineering sides.
- Provide feedback on code reviews.
- Contribute to the shared codebase.
- Debug and solve technical and business issues.
- Participate in non-team activities, such as support rotations, hiring process, RFC discussions, etc.
- Mentor and provide guidance to other engineers.
- Investigate, propose and participate in implementation of improvements to our platform.
- Implement interfaces with performance, accessibility, and API design in mind.
- Redesign how engineering work ships with autonomous agents as the default execution layer
- Propose and operationalize agentic workflows end-to-end (spec → plan → execute → verify) to deliver outcomes faster.
- Build reusable agentic workflows and primitives in the codebase so teams can apply them repeatedly across domains.
- Use verification loops (tests, checks, evals, guardrails) to ensure results are correct, secure, reliable, and scalable.
Practicals
- Reporting line: Engineering Team Leader
- Team: Engineering
- Location: Anywhere in the World
- Start date: As soon as possible
Application process
- Interview with our recruiter
- Interview with an Engineering Leader
- (async) Code exercise and review
- Interview with members of the engineering team
- Bar Raiser Interview
- Executive Interview with VP of Engineering
- Offer and Prior employment verification check
Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries.
At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally.
Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change.
At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis.
Benefits
- work from anywhere
- flexible paid time off
- flexible working hours (we are async)
- 16 weeks paid parental leave
- mental health support services
- stock options
- learning budget
- home office budget & IT equipment
- budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces
How you’ll plan your day (and life)
We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async.
You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs.
If that sounds like something you want, apply now!
How to apply
- Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format.
- We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote.
- If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead.
Not only do we encourage folks from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, age, abilities, disability status and any other under-represented group to apply, but we prioritize a sense of belonging. We have 4 ERGs (Women, Disability, Queer, Minorities in Tech) who meet regularly with the People team. During your interviews and beyond, we ask & encourage anybody who needs an accommodation to request one from their recruiter.
We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to.
At Remote, we embrace AI as a valuable tool while prioritizing human creativity and authenticity. We look forward to meeting candidates who balance innovation with genuine expertise and experience. To learn more about Remote's AI guidelines check see here.
Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.
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