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Our partner is a fast-growing HealthTech company developing connected technologies at the intersection of hardware, embedded systems, IoT, AI and digital health . Their technology transforms everyday environments into intelligent health platforms, enabling seamless and continuous health monitoring.

We are currently looking for a Senior Software QA Automation Engineer to join their Engineering team and help ensure the quality, reliability and scalability of their next generation of connected health products.

Mission:

As a Senior Software QA Automation Engineer , your mission will be to own and evolve the testing strategy, automation frameworks and release validation processes across the software development lifecycle.

You will play a key role in increasing automated test coverage, identifying risks early and ensuring products are robust, scalable and production-ready.

Working closely with Backend, Frontend, Embedded and Product teams , you will help build a strong quality culture across Engineering, ensuring that quality is embedded throughout the development process rather than treated as a final validation step.

The Role:

You will be responsible for:

- Defining and owning the software QA strategy across the product lifecycle.





- Planning and executing validation processes before production releases .

- Defining release acceptance criteria and quality gates .

- Performing functional, regression and integration testing .

- Identifying quality risks early and helping prevent production issues.

- Designing, building and maintaining automated testing frameworks .

- Increasing automated test coverage across backend services, frontend applications and APIs .

- Developing and evolving unit, integration and end-to-end testing strategies .

- Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines .

- Working closely with Engineering teams to improve code quality and testability .

- Reviewing software changes and identifying potential quality risks.

- Analyzing bugs, reproducing issues and performing root-cause analysis .

- Defining and monitoring quality metrics such as test coverage, regression stability, production incidents and release quality .

- Analyzing production issues through logs, metrics and monitoring tools .

- Promoting testing best practices and a quality-first engineering culture across teams.

- Continuously improving testing processes, automation workflows and engineering practices.

What we need:

- 5+ years of professional experience in QA Automation, Software Engineering or Quality Engineering .

- Strong programming skills in Python .

- Proven experience designing, developing and maintaining automated testing frameworks .

- Hands-on experience testing REST APIs, backend services and web applications .

- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, including unit, integration, end-to-end and regression testing .

- Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines .

- Experience with Git and collaborative software development workflows .

- Experience participating in code reviews and proactively identifying potential quality risks.

- Strong debugging, analytical and root-cause analysis skills .

- Experience work

📌 Software QA Automation Engineer (Barcelona)
🏢 Merlin Digital Partner
📍 Barcelona