At Mindera, we believe that quality is at the heart of every successful product. We are on the lookout for a talented and experienced QAE Architect to join our dynamic, collaborative team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in shaping our quality assurance strategy, designing innovative testing frameworks, and ensuring that our products consistently exceed the highest standards of quality.

National and international expected traveling time varies according to project/client and organizational needs: 0%-15% estimated.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities:

• Test Automation Strategy: Design and implement robust automation frameworks and test scripts to enhance testing efficiency and effectiveness across our software products.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD): Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, utilizing tools such as Git Lab CI to ensure seamless deployment and consistent testing of applications.
• Test Design & Architecture: Create scalable, reusable, and maintainable test architectures with a focus on maximizing test coverage and managing test data effectively.
• Risk Management & Test Optimization: Identify critical areas for testing and optimize test suites to ensure both efficiency and comprehensive coverage of functionality.
• Programming Language: Leverage proficiency in Java Script to develop automated tests and improve existing test codebases.
• Team Leadership & Mentorship: Lead and mentor QA teams, providing technical guidance, fostering a culture of collaboration, and inspiring high performance within the team.
• Quality Metrics & Reporting: Define and track quality metrics such as defect density and test coverage, and create actionable reports to communicate findings and trends to stakeholders.

Requirements:

• Proven experience as a Quality Assurance Engineer or Architect with a focus on automation and testing strategies.
• Expertise in designing and implementing automation frameworks, with hands-on experience in writing test scripts.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD practices and tools, particularly Git Lab CI or comparable platforms.
• Proficiency in Java Script; familiarity with additional programming languages is a plus.
• Hands-on experience in test design and architecture, emphasizing scalable and maintainable testing solutions.
• Solid understanding of risk management principles in a QA context, with the ability to optimize test processes effectively.
• Experience in team leadership, mentoring, and creating a collaborative team environment.
• Excellent communication skills.

Benefits
The Things We Really Care About:

• Health Insurance, because health comes first
• Flexible working hours
• Open holidays, take the time you need for yourself
• Profit distribution for everyone
• Mindera Annual Trip, Sports, and sharing groups to connect and have fun!
• Training & conferences, create your own training plan
• Child Care vouchers

Other Good Things:

• Choose Laptop & Peripherals that best suit your needs
• Hotspot with unlimited usage (PT), for work or Netflix ;)
• We have amazing offices in Porto, Aveiro, and Coimbra if you want to physically connect with minders. Remote from Portugal is also an option. Remote from other Countries will depend on your current location and Projects.
• At the offices, we have a wide range of snacks to keep you fed and healthy
• Partnerships with local businesses

Most of all You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together in a politics-free environment. Our culture reflects our lean and self-organization attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication. Freedom and Responsibility go hand in hand, and we value commitment, feedback, and empathy.

About Mindera

At Mindera we use technology to build products we are proud of, with people we love.
Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile, are at the core of what we do at Mindera.
We partner with our clients, to understand their products and deliver high-performance, resilient and scalable software systems that create an impact in their users and businesses across the world.
You get to work with a bunch of great people, where the whole team owns the project together.
Our culture reflects our lean and self management attitude. We encourage our colleagues to take risks, make decisions, work in a collaborative way and talk to everyone to enhance communication.
We are proud of our work and we love to learn all and everything while navigating through an Agile, Lean and collaborative environment.
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Our offices are located: Porto, Portugal | Aveiro, Portugal | Coimbra, Portugal | Leicester, UK | San Diego, USA | San Francisco, USA | Chennai, India | Bengaluru, India | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | Blumenau, Brazil