Senior Product QA Engineer

Who we areCARIAD Estonia is part of CARIAD, the automotive software company of the Volkswagen Group. Building automotive software platforms and digital customer functions for iconic brands like Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche, CARIAD supports the Volkswagen Group in becoming the leading automotive technology company.
CARIAD Estonia contributes to the mission of CARIAD with two core business areas – subsidiary management and IT operations team ensuring the performance and stability of digital services used by millions of Volkswagen brands` connected customers around the world. The IT Operations team at CARIAD Estonia ensures 24/7 on-desk support and quality assurance to digital services developed by CARIAD.
Our Senior Product QA Engineer ensures end-to-end quality across backend services, APIs, browser, mobile, and in-car user journeys. They are responsible for manual and automated testing, test management, and defect handling, working closely with product and development teams to ensure reliable customer experiences.About the roleYou will design and maintain automated tests using Playwright and TypeScript, test APIs, support quality checks in CI/CD pipelines, and perform complex end-to-end and exploratory testing.
Alongside this work, you will help development teams plan risk-based testing, assess release quality, report quality status to partner and product teams, and guide others involved. Release ownership remains with the development teams, while you provide the QA expertise, evidence and testing support needed for informed decisions.
You will collaborate closely with developers, Product Owners, second-level support and SRE across backend, browser, mobile and in-car user journeys.Job Description• Test Strategy & Management: Own the test strategy and test plan for the product. Prioritize testing by risk, estimate test effort, and plan capacity. Define entry and exit criteria and give the go/no-go recommendation for each release.• Quality Reporting & Stakeholders: Act as the main QA contact for partner and product teams. Report on test progress and quality status, including coverage, defect trends and escaped defects. Represent QA in central defect management meetings.• Shift-Left & Product Quality: Review requirements and acceptance criteria early, together with the Product Owner and developers. Propose product improvements based on defect, production and performance insights.• Test Automation & Pipelines: Design, write and maintain automated tests in TypeScript and Playwright. Integrate them into GitHub Actions, monitor pipeline results, and investigate failures. Decide which test cases to automate and own the automation roadmap.• End-to-End & Integration Testing: Design tests for complete user journeys across backend services, APIs, browser, mobile and in-car interfaces. Do complex and exploratory testing in preproduction before release.• Defect Analysis: Investigate complex defects using logs and monitoring tools such as New Relic, and lead root cause analysis. Route issues to the right teams, and lead cross-team analysis and remote testing sessions.• Change Impact & Environments: Track upcoming changes, assess their impact on testing and system stability, and update tests accordingly. Make sure preproduction closely mirrors production.• Guidance & QA Process: Coordinate and prioritise testing activities and ensure the quality of test cases. Own the QA process, test tooling (Playwright, Postman, Xray) and test result integration.Requirements for candidates• Bachelor’s or MSc in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.• 5+ years in QA, including owning test strategy or release quality for a product.• Strong end-to-end, API and integration testing skills, from backend services to browser. Able to extend testing to mobile and in-car journeys.• Strong TypeScript and hands-on Playwright skills. Experience integrating tests into CI/CD, ideally GitHub Actions.• Experience with test planning, risk-based testing, release readiness and defect management, including root cause analysis.• Confident in communicating with stakeholders. Able to explain quality status and risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.• Experience in agile environments; SAFe or DevOps experience is welcome.• Fluent English, written and spoken.
Nice to have• Postman and Swagger, Xray, New Relic.• Experience in mentoring or guiding.• ISTQB certification (Advanced Test Manager is a plus).• Automotive or connected-vehicle domain experience.What we offer

• Hybrid working environment (location in Tallinn)
• International diverse team
• Health benefits and additional time off
• Professional growth - team and individual trainings, workshops, etc

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