You're an important part of our future. Hopefully, we're also a part of your future! At B. Braun, we protect and improve the health of people worldwide. You support this vision, bringing expertise and sharing innovation, efficiency and sustainability as values. That's why we would like to keep developing our company with you. Keeping your future in mind, we're making a joint contribution to health care worldwide, with trust, transparency and appreciation. That's Sharing Expertise.
Software Test Lead
Job Posting Location: Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Functional Area: Information Technology
Working Model: Hybrid
Requisition ID: 8369
The Opportunity
As our Software Test Lead, you will own the strategy for testing our cloud-native SaaS applications and ensure they meet high standards of reliability, performance, and compliance.
This is more than a testing role - you will be a strategic leader, shaping our QA processes, defining our technology stack, and pioneering the use of AI in our workflows. By mentoring a talented team of QA engineers and embedding quality into our CI/CD pipelines, you will directly impact the speed and confidence with which we deploy software that improves healthcare.
Duties and Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership
Own and evolve test strategies, frameworks, and quality standards for cloud-based healthcare software.
Drive integration of AI and automation into testing workflows to improve efficiency and coverage.
Serve as quality advocate in architecture decisions, risk assessments, and release planning.
Collaborate closely with development, operations, product, and quality management teams to embed quality throughout the SDLC.
Team Development
Lad, coach, and grow QA/Test engineers; run 1:1s, feedback, and development plans; set clear goals and review performance.
Yoster a culture of quality excellence and continuous improvement across engineering teams
Operational Excellence
Own and optimize test processes, including automation, manual testing, and CI/CD integration.
Establish metrics, reporting and quality gates that enable frequent, reliable deployments.
Ensure comprehensive test documentation, defect tracking, and transparent status reporting across projects.
Strong leadership and communication skills.
Experience in software testing (manual and automated), ideally in healthcare or regulated environments.
Strong background in cloud-based SaaS testing (performance, smoke, canary and A/B releases, scalability).
Familiarity with modern test tools, frameworks, and methodologies (e.g. Playwright, GoLang test runner, SonarQube, Postman).
Familiarity with relevant regulations in the healthcare industry is a plus (ISO 13485, IEC 62304, MDR, FHIR, etc.).
Solid understanding of agile and DevSecOps practices.
Ability to work in interdisciplinary teams and manage multiple priorities.
You are a proactive, results-oriented personality with strong problem-solving skills.
You excel at building relationships and collaborating across distributed, multidisciplinary teams.
You are self-motivated and balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
You possess a passion for technology and a desire to continuously learn and grow.
You stay productive and capable of acting even in critical situations.
You communicate fluently in English. It would be a plus if you have knowledge in Spanish and German.
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