QA Manager 100% (m/w/d)
At Julius Baer, we celebrate and value the individual qualities you bring, enabling you to be impactful, to be entrepreneurial, to be empowered, and to create value beyond wealth. Let’s shape the future of wealth management together. As our Quality Manager, you will play a central leadership role within the Agile Release Train (ART), serving as the guardian of product quality and release integrity. You will lead end‑to‑end quality assurance activities across multiple agile teams, ensuring seamless coordination, robust testing practices, and stable production releases. In close collaboration with engineering, product, security, and stakeholders, you will drive transparency, proactively manage risks, and continuously improve how we deliver high‑quality software. This is a strategic hands‑on role combining quality governance, cross‑team orchestration, and practical problem‑solving to strengthen release predictability and system resilience.
YOUR CHALLENGE
You will take full ownership of quality across the delivery lifecycle, acting as the focal point for testing coordination, release readiness, and continuous improvement. Your responsibilities include:
* Leading testing coordination across agile teams: defining scope, timelines, environments, and dependencies while maintaining clear visibility for ART leadership.
* Delivering testing status reports to ART leaders, summarising progress, bottlenecks, improvements, and upcoming priorities.
* Coordinating testing activities, including scheduling, stakeholder alignment, and active support during test cycles.
* Conducting quality reviews to assess regression coverage, test completeness, defect trends, and traceability from JIRA/RFCs.
* Driving production stability by coordinating sign‑off sessions with Product Owners, Project Managers, RTEs, and other stakeholders.
* Developing and implementing a test data strategy to address common challenges around data availability, correct permissions, data refreshes, and reliability.
* Championing testing excellence and automation, identifying improvement opportunities, promoting best practices, and supporting initiatives to increase automated test coverage.
YOUR PROFILE
Required skills and experience:
* Proven experience in software quality assurance within large‑scale Agile environments, preferably in financial services or banking.
* Deep familiarity with SAFe or scaled Agile frameworks, and experience working alongside Scrum Masters, RTEs, and Product Management. DevOps experience is a strong plus.
* Skilled in release management and quality gating, with a demonstrated ability to enforce discipline around freezes and go/no‑go decisions.
* Experienced in coordinating non‑functional testing, especially penetration testing, and liaising between technical teams and external assessors.
* Comfortable analysing testing metrics, JIRA workflows, and test coverage reports to evaluate release readiness.
* A natural collaborator with excellent interpersonal and communication skills capable of influencing without authority and presenting clearly to senior stakeholders.
* Resilient, solution‑oriented, and committed to continuous improvement in both processes and outcomes.
Education and skills
* Excellent command in English (C1/C2). Fluent Spanish would be a big plus.
* BSc/MSc in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
* ISTQB Foundation Level certification is a plus.
* Likes to work in a team and is flexible, finding solutions to complex problems together.
* Strong commitment to the quality of the project.
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