Vacant job

We are looking for an Engineering Quality Lead who wants to take strategic and proactive responsibility for quality in our business-critical SaaS platform for the auditing and accounting industry. Senseworks develops cloud-based software used in socially vital processes, where correct data, reliable flows, and high quality are crucial not only for our customers, but for society as a whole.

In this role, you will have a clear mandate to drive how quality is built into our products from the start. You work with quality engineering rather than traditional testing, focusing on early quality work, automation, and helping our teams succeed in delivering high-quality software over time.

About the role

As Engineering Quality Lead, you own the holistic quality work throughout the entire product development cycle, from discovery to delivery. The role is not about testing features yourself, but about ensuring that the right prerequisites, working methods, and technical solutions are in place so that teams can deliver with high quality.

You work closely with our product and development teams and often come in early in the development process to:

• identify risks
• help formulate testable requirements and acceptance criteria
• coach the teams on how quality is built into architecture, code, and working methods

At the same time, you have a strategic responsibility to build and further develop our test automation across the entire product landscape, so that quality is continuously verified in a scalable and sustainable way.

Examples of what you might work with

• Drive and anchor the work of ensuring quality early in the process throughout the entire product organization (“shift quality left”)
• Coach development teams on how to build features with high quality from the start using a risk-based approach, rather than throwing testing at it afterwards
• Define and further develop a holistic test and quality strategy for frontend, backend, APIs, and data flows
• Build and own the strategy for automated testing
• Ensure quality and correctness in data-driven systems by implementing automated testing based on the quality strategy
• Work with performance and load testing to ensure scalability and stability in production
• Collaborate with product managers and architects regarding quality requirements, technical choices, and priorities

About you

We believe you are an experienced and senior quality engineer who sees quality as a systematic and cross-functional responsibility, and not just as the final phase in development projects. You thrive in a leading role where you influence through knowledge, structure, and coaching, but you are also not afraid to dig into the code when needed.

You have a clear engineering mindset and are comfortable with both code, architecture, and process. You have likely worked in product teams where quality was business-critical and where automation was a fundamental prerequisite. You have a deep understanding of the software development process and can take a helicopter view as well as going down into the details and reasoning about what risks different types of changes carry.

We would like you to have:

• Several years of experience in quality engineering or test automation in product development
• Strong technical understanding of web-based and distributed systems
• Experience building and maintaining automated tests across the entire stack
• Experience working in a coaching and supportive manner towards development teams
• Ability to identify risks early and translate them into concrete actions

Technical experience (merit)

• Design of test strategies for unit, integration, E2E, and regression tests
• Programming in e.g., TypeScript, Node.js, .NET, or similar
• Test automation frameworks such as Cypress, Playwright, Selenium, or testcontainers
• Testing of REST APIs and microservices
• Performance and load testing, for example with k6
• Docker and container-based environments
• Working methods such as TDD
• CI/CD

Preferably, you are based in Umeå where much of our development work takes place.

What we offer

We offer a chance to be part of a rapidly growing fintech company with great ambitions and a product that makes a real difference for our customers. We offer an inspiring, fast-paced, and collaborative environment where you get the opportunity to take significant personal responsibility and influence both your own role and your workdays. You will work with modern technologies in a data-driven development team.

Having an excellent culture and a fun, engaging work environment is very important to us. We value curiosity, openness, and a positive attitude. We strive to create a good environment for learning and personal development and have a personal education budget for each employee so that we can always continue to learn new things.

We believe we have more fun and develop better products by working very closely with our customers, all the way from idea to backlog prioritization, using a data-driven approach to decide what to build next.

We believe it is important to offer equal opportunities for women and men because we believe that diverse workforces perform better and are much more fun to work with. We strive to build a long-term team of talented individuals, and as part of that, all employees have the opportunity to participate in our stock option program and become owners of the company.

We have a team of colleagues working from all over the world, but we also enjoy meeting face-to-face. Our office in Umeå is located in Science Parken, with a 30-second walk to one of Northern Europe's largest sports facilities at IKSU. We offer a generous wellness allowance and a wellness hour so you can exercise during working hours. We have a very flexible workplace where you work when and where it suits you best to balance life.

Contact information

If working in a rapidly growing fintech SaaS company building products for the international market sounds exciting, contact us!

Send your application to [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]).