[Hiring] Lead QA Engineer @Sphera

Role Description

We are looking for an experienced QA Lead to guide and coach a QA & Test team within an agile environment, ensuring high-quality delivery across complex manufacturing systems. You will design and execute functional, non-functional, integration, and regression test cases, analyze results, manage defects, and communicate quality risks. A key focus will be driving test automation and continuously improving testing processes.

Responsibilities

• Guide, coordinate and coach the QA & Test team in their day-to-day operations.
• Review requirements for complex manufacturing processes.
• Create test cases systematically using test analysis techniques.
• Create functional and non-functional, as well as integration test cases.
• Execute test cases and analyze test results.
• Implement automated testing.
• Implement testing procedures.
• Perform thorough regression testing.
• Identify error sources and report defects.
• Communicate and track any quality risks, gaps or issues.
• Review requirements, specifications, and technical design documents to provide timely and meaningful feedback.

Qualifications

• Have already worked as a QA Lead and are comfortable with all parts of an agile development process.
• Working independently as well as with the team.
• Easily get into new, complex topics.
• ISTQB Foundation certification preferable but not mandatory.
• Ideally have experience in functional and integration testing in an agile environment.
• Ideally already gained experience with test automation.
• Demonstrate accuracy, thoroughness and attention to detail at all times and look for ways to improve and promote quality.
• Excellent communicator: clear, concise, empathetic, and unambiguous.
• Hands-on experience: Python, Playwright, Robot Framework.
• Have an eye for both minuscule details as well as the big picture.
• Fluent in English – spoken and written.
• You are a true team player.
• You have a strong work ethic, a real “can do” attitude.
• You have a Growth Mindset. You’re constantly striving to learn new things and improve.
• You follow industry news, regularly tinker with new technologies, and read books and blogs to keep your skills sharp.

Company Description

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team around the globe.