Quality Assurance Automation Lead

Are you an ambitious QA Lead looking for the next exciting challenge?

Join us in shaping the future of digital invoicing and payments!

We are subordinary of eCollect and we are Europes Leading Receivables Management Platform.

We provide a single-source solution for intelligent, digitalized, cross-border receivables management. We have created the first all-in-one platform on the market that can process receivables 100% autonomous.

We are seeking a Quality Assurance Automation Lead to serve as the technical owner of our test automation ecosystem, driving its architecture and evolution end-to-end. This role is built for someone who wants to stay close to the code and to lead the team's transformation toward automation-first practices, providing technical direction and mentorship to QA Engineers as the team matures - leadership remains a core part of the role, even as most of your time stays hands-on. The role will collaborate closely with Product Owners, Developers, and other stakeholders to deliver high-quality software solutions while continuously improving testing.

What You'll Do

• Architect, build, and own the end-to-end test automation ecosystem, including CI/CD pipeline integration and containerized test execution environments
• Design and maintain scalable, maintainable test automation frameworks
• Develop and review automated tests for web and API
• Continuously improve test efficiency, reliability, and coverage across the automation suite
• Monitor automation execution results, triage tests, and resolve automation issues directly
• Lead the team's transformation toward automation-first practices, raising the overall automation maturity and capability of the QA function
• Ensure adequate test coverage across functional, integration, regression, and end-to-end testing
• Own defect triage and prioritization, ensuring issues are assessed, prioritized, and tracked to resolution
• Provide technical mentorship and guidance to QA Engineers, define QA processes and best practices, and report on testing progress, risks, and quality metrics to stakeholders
• Coordinate and oversee testing activities during the different software development stages
• Review and validate business and functional requirements
• Contribute to manual testing activities when required.

What Were Looking For

• Proven experience architecting test automation frameworks from scratch (preferably Playwright with JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Strong hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for automated testing (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins)
• Strong hands-on experience containerization of test environments
• Experience testing REST APIs using tools such as Postman or similar
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation, querying, and troubleshooting
• Experience working with complex business systems, preferably in Fintech
• Prior experience leading or driving a team's shift toward automation-first testing practices
• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
• Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (preferably Jira, TestRail)
• Solid experience in manual testing as a complementary skill
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
• Exposure to cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, is a plus

Nice to Have

• Experience in fintech, payments, or invoicing platforms
• Exposure to performance or load testing tools
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum practices

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape the quality standards of a growing platform
• Work in a collaborative, agile, and innovation-driven environment
• Access to modern testing frameworks and tools
• Growth opportunities in a fast-scaling product team
• Competitive salary with perks and benefits - Additional health insurance, Multisport Card, Card for the public transportation system and Office massages
• 25+ days paid time off (increasing for up to 30, depending on your stay with us)
• Option of remote working on a hybrid model
• Modern office right in the heart of Sofia, just 5 minutes walking from a metro station