QA Automation Lead

About

Quality at esurance is a shared responsibility and this role is where it all comes together. As QA Automation Lead, you'll own the automation foundation that our cross-functional product squads build on: setting the standards, defining what good looks like, and staying hands‑on enough to make it real. You'll split your time roughly 70/30 between building and governing — close enough to the code to stay credible, and strategic enough to move the whole team forward. If you want a role where your technical decisions ripple across every product we ship, this is it.

This Poland‑based role offers remote flexibility in Poland only, and we value in‑person collaboration. Our team meets in Poland for at least one week each quarter, so we ask all applicants to be located in Poland. This is not a globally remote role - Poland residency is required.

The contract form is Umowa o Pracę (brutto).

Responsibilities

• Define and establish a unified automation framework as the source of truth across all product teams and business services — setting the standard everyone builds to.
• Set, measure, and align automation KPIs (coverage, stability, execution time) with leadership and department heads, backed by accessible dashboards and clear reporting.
• Translate requirements into automated test strategies, test case designs, and scalable architectures and actively implement them, not just specify them.
• Govern and continuously refine test automation standards and integration practices across the full development lifecycle.
• Establish transparency via broadly accessible dashboards reportings
• Execute and oversee test activities including release validation and sign‑off, with automated quality checks as the backbone.
• Contribute to framework refactoring and optimisation, raising the bar on test quality across teams.
• Mentor and guide QA Automation Engineers on tooling, patterns, and quality practices — enabling them to work at their best.

Qualifications

The essentials:

• A strong track record (8+ years) designing and owning test automation frameworks in a modern, microservice environment e.g. Automation maturity, KPI trends (E2E coverage)
• Experience defining QA standards, governance practices, and KPIs across multiple teams or workstreams.
• The ability to balance hands‑on technical delivery with cross‑team alignment and leadership‑level reporting.

Great to have:

• Experience building automation KPI dashboards and presenting quality metrics to management.
• Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD and integrating automated tests into the development pipeline.
• Background working in agile, distributed product organisations — ideally in a scale‑up or InsurTech context.

What sets you apart as a person:

• You lead by doing — equally comfortable deep in code and articulating quality strategy to leadership.
• You build trust across teams through consistent standards, clear communication, and results that are visible to everyone.

Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a genuine hybrid/remote setup — we trust you to work where you do your best thinking.
• Flat hierarchy with no layers between your ideas and their impact.
• A modern, evolving tech stack with real influence over tooling and architecture decisions.
• Professional development to keep growing your craft.
• An international, distributed team that values technical leadership and diverse perspectives.