QA Automation Lead

For the 4th consecutive year, Talan Spain has been recognized as a Great Place to Work! 🎉 This year, we’re also celebrating our 2nd certification in Poland, a significant milestone since opening our office there.

Talan is an international advisory group specializing in innovation and transformation through technology, with 5,000 employees and an annual turnover of 600M€.

We offer our customers a continuum of services to support them at each key stage of their organization’s transformation, with four main activities:

• CONSULTING in Management and Innovation:
  Supporting business, managerial, cultural, and technological transformations.
• DATA & TECHNOLOGY: Implementing major transformation projects.
• CLOUD & APPLICATION SERVICES: Building or integrating software solutions.
• SERVICE CENTERS of EXCELLENCE: Providing technology, innovation, agility, sustainability of skills, and cost optimization.

Talan accelerates its clients’ transformation through innovation and technology. By understanding their challenges and supporting them with technology, innovation, and data, we enable them to be more efficient and resilient.

As a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) Automation Expert
, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and executing automated testing strategies to ensure the highest quality of our software products. Your expertise in automation tools and frameworks will drive efficiency in the testing process and support continuous integration and delivery efforts.

• Develop with the team the product testing strategy as the cornerstone of QA in the product that will guide the testing automation backlog and decisions regarding how to implement the automations.
• Define an optimized TSLC for the product team that ensures the test coverage is completed and tracked properly.
• Support teams developing test cases, test plans and documenting test execution (manual and automatic).
• Develop and maintain automated testing frameworks and scripts for various software products. Propose best solutions for mock and fake components and systems.
• Define and create optimized testing environments for regression, end-to-end, and User test acceptance to ensure best quality whilst boosting performance.
• Collaborate with development teams to understand requirements and integrate automated tests into the build and deployment pipelines.
• Design and implement best practices for test automation to ensure scalability and maintainability.
• Conduct code reviews of automated tests to ensure adherence to coding standards and to optimize test execution.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to QA team members on automation techniques and best practices.
• Develop and deliver reports, metrics, and documentation related to test automation efforts and outcomes.

Key Requirements

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum working 10 years in Software Development with a minimum of 5 years of experience in quality assurance with a focus on test automation.
• Proficient in automation tools, including tools for managing test datasets in compliance with regulations and tools for managing test suites.
• Proficient in different automation frameworks like BDD, Data-Driven Testing Framework, Keyword testing framework, Hybrid testing framework.
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python, C#, or Ruby.
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) systems like Jenkins, Github actions, Git Lab CI, or similar.
• Certifications in quality assurance or software testing (e.g., ISTQB, CSTE).
• Experience with performance and security testing.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Proficiency in the following tools:
  Xray Jira plugin as the test case management, including API integrations to update test runs automatically including evidences. HP ALM migration to Xray experience is a plus.
• Jira, Confluence as the product requisite management and workflow.
• Open‑source testing automation technologies, including Selenium, Appium, Rest Assured, Cucumber, JUnit, Deque, Behave, Playwright among others.
• Container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Gen AI based solution for testing will be a plus.

What do we offer you?

• Full‑time contract.
• Smart Office Pack so that you can work comfortably from home.
• Training and career development.
• Benefits and perks such as private medical insurance, life insurance, lunch and travel cards as part of the flexible remuneration package.
• Possibility to be part of a multicultural team and work on international projects.
• Possibility to manage work‑permits.

If you are passionate about development & tech, we want to meet you!

Talan Spain’s commitment to non‑discrimination based on gender, race, ideology, or any other reason, in accordance with the company’s "Equality Plan" and the current regulations on gender equality between women and men (Royal Decree‑Law 6/2019).