InnoWave
Senior Quality Engineer - AI-Driven Testing & Quality
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Lisbon, PT
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- 4+ years
- Category
- Industrial engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years in software quality engineering, including owning test strategy across more than one layer (UI, API, or data).
- Built or substantially rebuilt automation where little existed, not only extended a mature suite someone else designed.
- Hands-on automation with Selenium or Playwright, plus API test automation.
- Test automation in Python, our preferred language for the new estate. Strength in JavaScript/Typescript or C# with a willingness to work in Python is equally fine.
- Comfortable with SQL, and able to validate data at rest rather than only through the UI.
- Integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines.
- Routine use of AI coding and testing tools, with a clear view of where they help and where they don't.
- A track record of getting a tooling recommendation adopted by people who did not report to you.
- Clear communication with non-technical stakeholders, including release recommendations you can defend.
- Fluent in English - written and spoken (mandatory).
- Availability to work in an Hybrid model in one of our offices.
Nice to have
- Making test suites blocking gates in CI/CD rather than advisory checks.
- Performance and load testing (JMeter, k6, Gatling, or similar).
- Self-hosted test infrastructure (containerized runners, self-managed grids) and infrastructure-as-code for repeatable test environments.
- Contract testing (Pact or similar) and event-driven systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS.
- Data migration testing: parity validation and behavioral equivalence for converted database logic.
- Test data management at scale: masking, synthetic generation, regulated personal data.
- Go, useful for exercising Go services, though the suite itself would not be written in Go.
- Observability data (logs, metrics, traces) as a primary triage input.
- Telco experience: BSS/OSS, provisioning, billing, or network data.
Full description
InnoWave is looking for a dynamic, agile person, good communication skills to complete our team. If you're based in Portugal, this might be the opportunity for you!
Senior Quality EngineerResponsibilities
- Audit current coverage, tooling, and process, and identify where the real risk sits rather than where testing is easiest.
- Define the target-state automation architecture and a staged path to it, sequenced by risk, including proofs of concept, and recommending against tools that do not earn their cost.
- Build the case for change and secure buy-in from engineering, product, and leadership.
- Close testability gaps that block automation, like unstable environments, nondeterministic data, missing seams, with engineering.
- Design and build UI (Selenium, Playwright, BrowserStack), API, and database coverage, including regression and contract testing, in Python where we start fresh, in JavaScript/Typescript or C# where tests belong beside existing code.
- Validate data at rest with SQL and NoSQL, and validate data-layer change: migrations, parity checks, behavioral equivalence.
- Integrate suites into CI/CD as enforced quality gates: run performance and load testing, including async and queue-based paths.
- Conduct security testing and partner with security engineering to validate findings and verify remediation.
- Keep test infrastructure portable (containerized runners, self-hostable grids) and own test data management: masking, synthetic generation, and controlled access for teams handling subscriber and billing data.
- Use AI tools to generate and maintain tests, apply AI-assisted log analysis and defect clustering, and deliver enablement with honest ROI recommendations.
- Build quality dashboards and executive release reports with clear go/no-go recommendations.
Embed in Agile squads as QE lead, coordinate onshore/offshore QE, mentor through pair testing and review, and work alongside the development team.
Required Skills
- Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Software Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years in software quality engineering, including owning test strategy across more than one layer (UI, API, or data).
- Built or substantially rebuilt automation where little existed, not only extended a mature suite someone else designed.
- Hands-on automation with Selenium or Playwright, plus API test automation.
- Test automation in Python, our preferred language for the new estate. Strength in JavaScript/Typescript or C# with a willingness to work in Python is equally fine.