QA Lead Engineer
Description
Why Ness
We know that people are our greatest asset. Our staff’s professionalism, innovation, teamwork, and dedication to excellence have helped us become one of the world’s leading technology companies. It is these qualities that are vital to our continued success. As a Ness employee, you will be working within the Professional Services team and you’ll gain knowledge working alongside other highly skilled professionals that will help accelerate your career progression.
The team is a key part of a large global team and at present it has more than 100 members covering activities from almost all phases of the product and support cycle.
We have teams of technical implementers providing installation and configuration of products with final customers in various parts of the world, as well as teams providing customer support.
Over the course of ten years we have built up a strong partnership with our client and become a key part of their long-term success.
Salary: from 2.600 EUR/month, depending on skills and experience + benefits. The final offer for the selected candidate will reflect the candidate´s comprehensive assessment, skills, and past work experience.
Location: Slovakia only
Salary: from 2.600 EUR/month, depending on skills and experience + benefits. The final offer for the selected candidate will reflect the candidate´s comprehensive assessment, skills, and past work experience.
Location: Slovakia only
Requirements and Responsibilities
- Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and QA best practices
- Strong focus on high product quality and reliable releases
- Interest and motivation to apply AI‑enabled approaches to modern QA practices
- Ownership mindset towards product quality, aligned with Quality Expert (QE) principles
- Close collaboration with Tech Leads, Architects, Product Owners, and Delivery leads
- Technical leadership and mentoring of QA Engineers
- Contribution to a quality‑first culture, where quality is a shared responsibility
What you’ll do
- Take ownership of product quality and act as a Quality Expert (QE) for your area
- Define and drive the quality approach and testing strategy together with Tech Leads and Architects
- Ensure quality standards and processes are understood and applied across teams
- Lead and coordinate functional, regression, and non‑functional testing
- Monitor and act on CI/CD quality signals, regression health, and release readiness
- Analyze escaped defects, quality risks, and trends, and drive preventive improvements
- Support quality across cross‑team initiatives and customer‑reported issues
- Champion AI‑assisted QA practices to improve efficiency and insight
- Mentor QA engineers and serve as a go‑to person for quality topics
What you’ll bring
- 3-5+ years of experience in Manual and Automation Testing
- Good knowledge of Java, with experience using Selenium and/or Playwright
- Experience designing and reviewing automation tests
- Basic experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Artifactory or similar)
- Experience working with relational databases (MS‑SQL / Oracle / PostgreSQL)
- Hands‑on experience testing RESTful APIs and Web Services
- Good understanding of SDLC / STLC
- Ability to define and execute test suites and regression strategies
- Strong communication skills and ability to work across roles
- Curiosity and drive to learn and apply AI‑driven QA techniques
Not checking every single requirement?
If this role sounds good to you, even if you don’t meet every single bullet point in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. For most of the candidates that applied, we found a role that was a very good fit with their skills.
Let’s meet and you may just be the right candidate for one of our roles.
At Ness Digital Engineering we are willing to build a work culture that is based on diversification, inclusion, and authenticity.