Senior / Lead QA Automation

We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.

At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.

We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.

As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.

We would like to meet a Senior / Lead QA Automation for a project with a remote working model based in Portugal.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the definition and execution of the overall testing strategy across projects
• Own test planning, including scope, estimations, resource allocation, and scheduling
• Design and maintain test strategies, plans, and test cases for functional, integration, and end-to-end testing
• Coordinate and oversee manual and automated testing activities
• Manage and execute API and Web automation testing processes
• Write and maintain automated test cases for regression and coverage improvement
• Manage the defect lifecycle, including triage, prioritization, and reporting
• Collaborate with Development, Product, and DevOps teams to ensure quality across the SDLC
• Ensure proper test environments and test data management practices
• Mentor and guide QA engineers, promoting best practices and continuous improvement
• Track and report quality metrics, testing progress, and risks to stakeholders
• Drive improvements in testing processes, tools, and governance
• Perform hands-on manual and automated testing when needed

Requirements:

• Strong experience in software testing, including test management or test lead responsibilities
• Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright or similar
• Experience writing automated test cases and building automation frameworks
• Experience with API testing (manual and automated) using Postman, Rest Assured, KarateDSL, or similar
• Experience with test management tools such as Azure Test Plans, Jira Xray, or similar
• Solid understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes across manual and automated testing
• Experience with performance and security testing
• Strong leadership, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to coordinate across multiple teams and manage competing priorities
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Degree in Computer Engineering or a related field

Nice to Have:

• Knowledge of BDD (Behavior Driven Development)
• Experience managing test data across environments
• Exposure to large-scale or distributed systems testing

Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.

Find with us the right opportunity to grow!

What you can expect from us

· Long-term projects with national and international context.

· Opportunities to grow technically and professionally.

· A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust.

· Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.

Join us Send us your CV in English to [email protected] with reference MA/LQA.

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At Decskill, we are committed to equal opportunities and non-discrimination. We promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, where recruitment and career progression are based solely on talent, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, or any other form of discrimination incompatible with human dignity.