Engineering Manager – QA

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.

• 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.

• 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 (Git Lab 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!