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The Engineering Manager — Quality Assurance will lead Valencia’s QA function and drive a standardized, shift-left QA mindset across DKB Code Factory’s teams in Spain and Germany, increasing release confidence and reducing defect leakage. You will combine people leadership with pragmatic enablement—shaping QA standards, coaching engineers, and embedding measurable quality practices into everyday delivery.

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• Lead, coach, and develop QA engineers while coordinating QA practices and standards across Spain and Germany.
• Conduct QA maturity assessments, publish baseline KPIs (defect leakage, automated coverage, cycle time), and deliver a prioritized 12‑month QA roadmap.
• Design, publish, and drive adoption of a pragmatic QA playbook (test pyramid, automation strategy, DoR/DoD quality gates) across locations.
• Deliver high-impact quick wins (e.g., CI test integrations, updated DoD including QA, test guidelines) and scale successful pilots to other teams.
• Embed shift-left practices by partnering with product and engineering—introduce pairing, refinement participation, and automation-first approaches.
• Launch and oversee larger initiatives (automation framework standardization, contract testing, quality dashboards/observability) and measure their impact on quality KPIs.
• Build and sustain a cross-location QA community (guilds, mentorship, knowledge sharing) and support hiring/onboarding for QA roles.

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• Proven experience leading QA or quality engineering teams with cross-location scope (people leadership + enablement).
• Strong hands-on QA expertise: test automation frameworks (Selenium, Playwright, Cypress), API testing (Postman or equivalent), test pyramid and shift-left principles.
• Practical experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI/CD or similar) and working with Git-based workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to assess QA maturity, define KPIs, and convert findings into pragmatic roadmaps and measurable quick wins.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-cultural communication skills (Spain & Germany).
• Fluent English; Spanish desirable.
• Comfortable working hybrid from Valencia with periodic travel to Berlin.
• Experience with performance testing tools (JMeter, k6), contract testing tools (Pact), observability tooling (Grafana, Prometheus), and cloud environments (AWS) (nice-to-have).
• Prior experience working in regulated environments (banking/finance)(nice-to-have).
• You're passionate about your work, but also know how to enjoy your free time!

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Think of a product. Like lean, mean software. For sports betting. With the best possible real-time solutions. Now think of innovating the testing process. Stopping bugs from reaching production. Paying special attention to how and what is delivered. Directly tailoring the experience for tens of thousands of people daily. Sounds interesting?

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing automated tests across the product suite
• Design and implement comprehensive test automation solutions that encompass web applications, web services (microservices), and native apps. Ensure coverage across various testing types, including UI testing, API testing, and others, to support robust quality assurance practices
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria for software projects
• Be jointly responsible for the maintenance and quality of codebases and infrastructure
• Issue Investigation and Reporting
• Quality Control: Ensure we have vital checks on all our products (metrics, health checks) dashboards, ensure critical business scenarios are covered and automate them.
• Making sure tests run in Continuous Integration

We Are Looking for Someone Who:

• Has a minimum of Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline
• Is highly proficient in Functional or Object-oriented programming
• Has strong understanding of QA processes and demonstrated experience in defining and implementing test designs from scratch
• Has extensive experience with test automation tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright etc.)
• Has extensive experience writing backend tests (API, unit, database) and testing RESTful services using tools such as Postman or SoapUI
• Has understanding of Non-Functional testing, especially Load and Performance testing
• Prefers a shift-left testing approach

Nice to Have:

• ISTQB certification
• Experience with BDD (Behaviour Driven Development)
• Knowledge of Ruby or JavaScript
• Experience using Xray or similar Test Management tool
• Experience with event-driven architecture (Kafka, AWS, Docker etc.), preferably in a Product environment

We're building an AI copilot for web testing automation. It enables manual and automation QA engineers to turn their manual testing flows into production-ready automated E2E testing scripts, saving hours of manual work and coding. We are a small team with zero bureaucracy, focusing on real users. We optimize for shipping value - not hype.

About the role:

You'll own the top of the funnel: outbound, qualification, and getting leads to sit down for a conversation. Demos, onboarding, and retention are staying with the founder for now.

Phase one: Get individual Automation QAs to try the product, aiming for fast adoption and no procurement. Once we hit 20+ weekly users, we’ll move on to phase two, where we’ll shift the focus to B2B – qualified meetings with QA Leads and Engineering Managers.

Your focus in the first three months:

• Build targeted lists: Automation QAs at companies with web products and Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium in their stack.
• Run outbound sequences (LinkedIn is the baseline, but you decide the channels). A/B test weekly.
• Design qualification gates (forms and scoring) to filter leads before the founder calls.
• Reach 20+ weekly active users after month one – ICP-qualified and giving direct feedback to engineering.
• Document what works into a repeatable playbook.

Growth path:

This role expands as your strategies deliver results. Once the user pipeline works, you can take over demos and run B2B sales end to end. From there, the natural next step is Growth Lead (funnel optimization and scaling the playbook) or Account Executive (owning deal execution).

Why to join:

• You'll be building a strategy that scales the product, not filling a quota. What you create from scratch becomes the foundation.
• Your outreach turns into users who talk directly to engineering, and their feedback ships as features within days.
• AI for developer tools is a market with real pull, and QA automation is one of its sharpest pain points.
• We’re backed by JetBrains – financially secure with no reliance on external VC funding.

Who we're looking for:

You should have a high level of agency and be quant-minded – you live in funnel metrics, run experiments, and are comfortable saying "no" to leads that are a bad fit. 

The ideal candidate will:

• Have done 0-to-1 outbound for an early-stage devtool, QA tool, infrastructure product, or similar.
• Have proven cold outbound results, instead of being dependent on warm inbound.
• Be able to talk credibly about flaky tests, CI pain, and Playwright vs. Cypress. You don't need to be an engineer, but you do need domain empathy.
• Possess strong written communication skills, with the ability to craft short, sharp messages that get replies.

Nice to have:

• A QA or SDET background – you've felt the pain yourself before moving to sales or BD.
• Exposure to security/compliance objections – enough to pre-empt and route.
• Content skills – your LinkedIn posts get engagement, not just your DMs.
• Experience as one of the first 10 employees at a startup.

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Nuvolar is a global technology consulting company specializing in Salesforce-based solutions, mobile and web application development, and training and support services. With over 14 years of experience and a multicultural team of more than 100 professionals, Nuvolar delivers projects for highly complex industries such as aviation, healthcare, consumer goods, and transportation. 

Our mission is to transform innovative ideas into reality by optimizing business processes, enabling technology adoption, and developing tailored solutions that empower our clients to grow and adapt in demanding environments.

At Nuvolar, we value international talent, diversity, flexibility, and a collaborative work environment that fosters both professional growth and personal well-being.

Job Description

Thank you for considering a future opportunity with Nuvolar! We are not currently hiring for this specific role, but we would love to connect with talented individuals who are interested in potential future positions. By joining our talent pipeline, you will be the first to be notified when suitable opportunities arise.

In this talent pipeline requisition, we are not actively recruiting for this position at the moment. However, we are building a network of exceptional individuals who possess the skills and experience required for future openings. By submitting your application to this requisition, you will be added to our talent pipeline and may be invited for an exploratory conversation with someone from our Talent Acquisition team to be considered for future opportunities.

About the Role

We aspire to cultivate a team equipped with unmatched expertise, agility, and dedication to excellence. We are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer with experience in testing web and API applications. In this role, you will contribute to both manual and automated testing activities, defining the overall testing strategy and ensuring high-quality standards across UI, API, performance, and security testing.

You will design, implement, and maintain scalable and maintainable test automation frameworks, create and execute functional, non-functional, integration, regression, API, and end-to-end tests, and actively contribute to code reviews and CI/CD pipelines. Additionally, you will estimate testing efforts, maintain test documentation, and mentor junior QA team members, driving continuous improvement and best practices across the project.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in manual and automated testing.
• Strong coding skills in TypeScript (preferred) or other languages such as Python or Java.
• Hands-on experience with modern UI automation tools (Playwright preferred; Cypress or Selenium considered).
• Solid experience testing APIs (Postman, RestAssured, requests, etc.).
• Knowledge of Docker, CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI), Git, relational databases, and SQL.
• Understanding of testing design patterns, test automation patterns, and test management tools (TestRail, Xray, etc.).
• Strong communication skills in English and experience working in Agile environments.

Nice to have: Performance testing experience (k6, Gatling, Locust, JMeter), basic security testing knowledge, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), TCP/IP and network protocols familiarity, and experience with Gherkin/BDD frameworks.

What to expect from us?

• People-First Culture – We care about our team, support each other, and celebrate successes together.
• Continuous Learning – Access to training programs, mentorship, career development opportunities, and an annual professional development budget.
• Health and Wellness Perks – Private health insurance and gym subsidy.
• Great Company Culture – Team events, knowledge-sharing sessions, and fun activities throughout the year.

Our hiring process

1️⃣ HR Interview – Cultural fit interview to get to know each other.
2️⃣ Technical Test – A coding challenge to assess your skills.
3️⃣ Technical Interview – A deep dive into your technical abilities and thought process.

Join us in a role that offers not only exciting challenges but also the opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the technology and consulting industry.

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Equal Opportunity Statement
Nuvolar Works is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We do not discriminate based on age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, family or marital status, disability, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, or any other protected characteristic. Candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply, and we are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any adjustments during the hiring process, please let us know.