QA Lead

Want to drive digital change in automotive? Do you have a passion for breaking things before they are launched?

At Volvo Cars, we are making bold digital visions come true. We aim to lead in the automotive world by creating a digital ecosystem built around making our customers' lives less complicated. Now we are looking for curious, creative people who want to change the world through innovative thinking.

What’s in it for you?
This role is within our Digital team, which is using a number digital technologies to provide best tools and solutions so that Volvo Cars can provide proactive and effortless customer care for Volvo users.  We want to provide our global customers with a leading and effortless customer care experience and be there when they need us, across the channels our consumers prefer. That’s our mission.
 You will be responsible for testing the products before they are launched, ensuring that we deliver highest quality of products to both our customers, partners, and internal users. We are using the Salesforce platform as a foundation for some of our products. In the future, we plan to build products possibly using other platforms and development tools. 
The team is primarily located in Gothenburg, Stockholm Sweden, and we also have teams in the San Francisco US and in Shanghai China. Many of the people you will be working with have experience from start-ups and global tech companies such as Spotify, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, Tradera, Klarna, EA Games etc.
What will you do?
You will either be part of a product team leading and mentoring QA engineers or QA engineers across product teams.  You will be working to establish test and automation strategies and practices, working closely with platform and CI/CD team to further streamline deployment. You take a bigger role for overall quality of the product, both functional and non-functional requirements like performance and security.
* Write tools and libraries which can be used by other QA/devOps engineers
* In collaboration with the agile teams set the guidelines and requirements on the test practices in the development process
* Building a path for successful cooperation between testers of different levels
* Controlling and managing difficulties that arise in different projects during testing related activities
* Take on leadership responsibilities and influence the direction of the automation effort, and its schedule and prioritization.
* Provide technical leadership, direction, strategy and hands-on assistance to other members of the team
* Identify the scope of the testing required for a particular release.
* Release plan for each release visible for everyone.
* Mentors other QA team members in test automation best practices and adherence to overall testing strategy
* Drive greater automation test coverage throughout the product including GUI, API layers, services and database driven scripts.
* Identifies metrics for monitoring increased performance and scalability.
* Provides guidance for performance test initiatives that take a true end-to-end focus on ensuring client side, server tiers, database and data integration jobs are performing as expected.
* Troubleshoots performance, load, and stress testing through analysis of system design/coding.
* Ready to jump into different teams when needed

Here’s what we are looking for:
* You have a solid understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes
* You have a strong exposure to various test frameworks Selenium, Webdriverio, Cypress, Protractor, TestNG
* You have good programming skills in any one of the languages (Javascript, typescript, java, python, C#, Go, Scala) and a good understanding of Object Oriented Programming
* You will examine end-to-end processes in addition to backend testing, ensuring quality is embedded throughout
* You have experience with Agile, code management and deployment strategies
* Experience working on low-code platforms like Salesforce is a plus
* Ability to effectively articulate technical challenges and solutions, deal well with ambiguous/undefined problems; ability to think abstractly.
* A good team player and communication skills

How To Learn More And Apply
Does this sound like your next challenge? Welcome with your application by submitting your resume and cover letter via the link below, no later than November 5th. If you have any questions regarding the position or recruitment process you are welcome to contact Sachin Surana at sachin.surana@volvocars.com or our Tech Recruiter Keerthi Veeraraghavan at keerthi.veeraraghavan@volvocars.com Please note that applications via email will not be accepted due to GDPR.

You and Your Skills
We are looking for an experienced QA Lead who has previously worked in agile product teams and led a team of QA engineers working within the same product team or across product teams. You collaborate across different roles to ensure quality is thoughtfully examined in both processes and technology. You are a leader, motivating and encouraging all team mates to drive a quality mindset.

 You probably have a degree in Computer Science/Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience. You have a passion for quality and appreciate that QA is much more than testing.