Teamlead QA (gn)

Your mission At Bikeleasing Group, we build digital solutions used by thousands of people every day. We rely on modern technologies, clean architectures, and teams that take ownership. In the middle of a significant technical transformation – modernising legacy systems, building domain-oriented services, and professionalising our engineering organisation – we are looking for an experienced leader to take over our QA team and bring it to the next level. As Team Lead QA (gn) you will lead a well-established team of 8 QA Engineers, safeguard our existing quality standards, and drive them forward. You are the central lever for reliability, product quality, and stable releases – and you actively shape how quality is embedded across our entire engineering organisation. If you want to build QA as a strategic asset rather than just manage it, we'd love to hear from you. You take on disciplinary leadership of the QA team (currently 8 people), support their growth, and build a clear career path from Junior to Lead You define and continuously evolve the QA strategy for the entire engineering organisation – including quality gates, definition-of-done standards, and quality KPIs You build a cross-team test automation platform (E2E, API, integration, UI) and own its integration into our CI/CD pipelines with clear feedback loops and shift-left practices You establish a sustainable operating model for the QA function across all product teams and collaborate closely with tech leads, product owners, and DevOps You develop a QA and test automation roadmap as a first-class artefact with quarterly goals and measurable milestones – aligned with engineering and product strategy Your profile You bring at least 3 years of experience in a lead or senior role with disciplinary or functional leadership responsibility in a QA environment You have deep hands-on experience in test automation (frontend e.g. Selenium, Playwright, Cypress; API e.g. RestAssured, Karate) and solid knowledge of CI/CD integrations – framework-agnostic and pragmatic. You are familiar with modern software architectures (microservices, event-driven, REST/GraphQL APIs) and the corresponding testing strategies You have built and scaled QA teams (4+ people) – including recruiting, onboarding, and career development You think in business impact: you can communicate quality requirements clearly to engineering leadership and product, and you have a genuine builder mindset Why us? We live team spirit: you matter to us. Every day, our constantly growing, dynamic team achieves great things — and we want you by our side A modern tech environment: Kotlin and TypeScript; frameworks such as Spring Boot, Vue.js, React, NestJS, Symfony; AWS cloud infrastructure fully provisioned with Terraform; and AI tooling like Claude and Copilot Solid technical equipment: you can choose your operating system (Windows or macOS) Learning & development: with our shared Udemy account, you can take trainings — and you’ll also get dedicated time to focus on your development. We also regularly attend tech conferences Internal tech talks: take part in our in-house sessions to stay up to date and keep learning. Maximum flexibility: flexible working hours, remote work, and workations Probonio benefit: via Probonio, you’ll receive a €50 voucher every month which you can choose freely. On your birthday, you’ll receive an additional €60 once per year Great insurance conditions: especially for your company pension scheme, plus capital-forming benefits Bikeleasing: of course, you can lease up to two bikes or pedelecs through us as your employer — with a price range from €649 to €15,000. We see diversity as an enrichment for our team. That’s why we welcome all applications and especially encourage people with disabilities or other challenges to apply. Apply To This Job