Senior Quality Engineer (QA)

## About the role We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineer to join our team in evolving Frontiers' Publishing Platform. We are currently running an organization-wide project to rebuild our Publishing Platform, introducing a manuscript-first architecture and embedding AI agents to streamline editorial workflows. This transformation includes a redesign of the user experience and the replacement of legacy systems with modular, scalable services that support automation and decision-making. As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will work closely with Engineers, Product Managers, and stakeholders to ensure that solutions are well-defined, risk-aware, and validated throughout the development lifecycle before reaching production. You will identify risks early, define validation strategies, and ensure quality checks are embedded into everyday development. You will act as a quality coach and enabler within the team, supporting engineers in improving testing practices, increasing automated validation, embedding quality checks into their daily work, and making effective use of AI tools in these activities. This role offers the opportunity to shape product quality while working with cross-functional teams in a fast-moving and evolving environment. ## Responsibilities - Work with Engineers, Product Managers, and stakeholders to ensure requirements are clear, testable, and consistent - Define the validation strategy, deciding what needs to be validated, at which level, and how - Define test scenarios covering key user flows, and edge cases - Identify risks and potential failure scenarios early, before development starts - Review and challenge non-functional requirements (performance, reliability, security) to ensure they are clear and measurable - Ensure automated tests (API, integration, end-to-end) are in place and run in CI/CD pipelines to validate changes continuously - Coordinate testing and validation activities across the team, ensuring quality checks are completed before changes are released - Contribute to release readiness, supporting decisions on whether a change is ready to go live based on validation results - Define and follow post-release checks, ensuring the system behaves as expected in production - Use production data and quality signals (errors, logs, metrics, incidents) to improve validation strategies and prevent recurring issues - Improve the team’s quality processes and metrics, using data to identify issues and drive improvements - Support the team in improving testing practices and sharing ownership of quality - Apply AI tools to support testing, validation, and analysis, and help the team use them effectively - Contribute to the Quality Engineering community, sharing practices and helping evolve quality standards across teams ## Requirements - 5+ years of experience in Quality Engineering / QA roles - Strong understanding of software testing and quality practices, with experience defining validation strategies - Strong analytical and problem-solving skills - Ability to understand the big picture and translate it into testable requirements - Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing - Experience with AI tools and their application in testing and validation - Strong communication and collaboration skills - Ability to work in a fast-paced, evolving environment - Passion for quality and continuous improvement - Experience working with cross-functional teams - Experience with cloud-based systems and services - Experience with agile methodologies and DevOps practices - Experience with test automation frameworks and tools - Experience with performance, security, and reliability testing - Experience with data analysis and metrics-driven quality improvement ## Nice to Have ## Benefits