Quality Assurance Engineer

About the role

ING is looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join its Ecosystem Core 2 team in the Engineering Platform, based in Madrid. The team's mission is to make quality a built-in capability of every squad by standardizing practices, strengthening governance and contributing to reliable engineering environments, in a collaborative, Agile and enablement-driven way.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain quality standards, controls and testing approaches across products, platforms and delivery organizations.
• Define and evolve the Quality Engineering roadmap, aligned with business priorities, engineering strategy and platform objectives.
• Drive improvements in testing, automation and quality practices, establishing consistent ways of working across teams.
• Establish quality metrics and share visibility of quality performance, risks and improvement opportunities.
• Work with Engineers, Architects, Product Owners and Platform teams to embed quality requirements into design, delivery and standards.
• Act as a subject matter expert, coaching teams and supporting the adoption of modern testing and quality practices.
• Lead cross-functional quality initiatives and support incident analysis, defect prevention and continuous improvement to reduce production risk.

Required profile

• Strong experience in Quality Assurance, Test Engineering or Quality Engineering within large software delivery organizations.
• Proven experience defining quality standards, governance models or testing strategies across multiple teams or domains.
• Experience defining Quality Engineering roadmaps and establishing governance frameworks and quality metrics.
• Experience improving release quality, reducing defects and minimizing production incidents.
• Experience driving test automation and quality controls at scale, integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to influence technical decisions and mentor engineers without direct authority.

Required skills

• Modern Quality Engineering practices: Contract Testing, Testing Pyramid, Shift-Left and Shift-Right.
• Functional and non-functional testing, including reliability, resilience, security, performance and observability.
• Use of quality KPIs and engineering metrics to drive continuous improvement.

What we offer

• Flexible working arrangements, including an international remote work program.
• Health and life insurance for you and your family, and a pension plan after 1 month.
• Restaurant card, free company shuttle and on-site physiotherapy.
• GymPass membership and employee networks.
• Special loan and mortgage conditions, and a pension plan after 1 month.