Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

Job Description:

The Senior Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Engineer is a quality leader who drives process improvement and mentors others while remaining a deeply involved, hands-on tester. They are known for their initiative in improving team processes, such as creating new guidelines for acceptance criteria. They lead by example, championing best practices and taking on the most complex testing challenges, especially on desktop applications with 3D components.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Feature Quality: Take full ownership of the end-to-end quality for user stories, which includes test design, manual testing, test automation (if possible), and ensuring the feature team adheres to all R&D guidelines.
• Execute Hands-on Testing: Actively perform manual testing for user stories and execute known regression suites to verify functionality against requirements.
• Participate in Formal Verification: Dedicate significant effort during the formal verification period, executing test protocols and documenting results meticulously.
• Defect Management: Identify, document, and track bugs with precision in the team's issue tracking system, collaborating with developers to verify fixes.
• QA Group Contribution: Provide feedback on test design to QA group members.
• Feature Team Contribution: Support triage and prioritization of defects found during testing cycles.

• Drive Process Improvement: Proactively identify process gaps and drive improvements, such as creating new guidelines, proposing changes to team processes, or championing risk assessment practices.
• Lead Complex Testing: Lead the test strategy for high-risk features and personally execute tests for complex areas.
• Mentor and Coach: Actively mentor Middle and Junior engineers through collaborative problem-solving, detailed code/test reviews, and structured knowledge transfer sessions.

Job Requirements:

Mandatory

• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Deep expertise in testing complex systems and designing risk-based test strategies.
• Proven experience driving process improvements and creating technical documentation or guidelines.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead other engineers through influence and example.
• Knowledge of Git workflows.
• Fluent in English

Preferred

• Knowledge of Python.
• Experience with Behavior-Driven Development (BDD).
• Experience presenting new ideas or processes to technical teams.

We Offer

• Competitive base salary
• Modern agile development processes and toolset
• International company environment
• Hybrid working mode with 4 days in the office in Madrid and 1 remote

Operating Company:

Ormco is a global leader and innovator of high-quality orthodontic products and solutions, including brackets and wires. For more than 60 years, our team has partnered with the orthodontic community to help create over 20 million smiles in more than 140 countries. We build trusted relationships. Each one is rooted in respect and understanding. We take that approach when we help orthodontists achieve their clinical and practice management objectives. We take the same approach when we help our team bring their personal best to work each day, ready to make a difference and reach their full potential.

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