Quality Assurance Director

Summary

Join Docplanner as the Compliance and Quality Assurance Director and lead a transformational journey, redefining QA from gatekeeping to enabling. You will embed quality into the company's DNA, fostering a quality-first mindset among engineers. This role involves strategic leadership, platform development, cultural transformation, and privacy assurance and compliance. You'll build scalable frameworks and tools, advocate for shared responsibility in QA, and ensure compliance with regulations. The position offers a competitive salary, flexible work arrangements, comprehensive health benefits, and professional development opportunities.

Requirements

• Proven success in leading QA organizations and driving cultural transformation within medium-to-large teams
• Expertise in developing tools and frameworks that empower engineers to integrate quality into their workflows
• Strong understanding of privacy assurance, compliance, and risk management, particularly in regulated industries
• Demonstrated ability to build relationships across teams and communicate effectively with all stakeholders
• A passion for modern QA practices, including automation, scalable testing methodologies, and continuous improvement
• A track record of influencing cross-functional leaders to adopt innovative approaches to quality and compliance
• Strong knowledge in bugs management processes
• Technical expertise in automation strategies and frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Appium, Cypress), with strong experience in CI/CD integration
• Ability to focus on proactive prevention rather than reactive processes, driving organizational alignment around quality goals

Responsibilities

• Define and implement a modern QA strategy focused on coaching, mentoring, and advocacy
• Promote a quality-first mindset, ensuring engineers take ownership of quality while QA acts as mentors and enablers
• Lead and develop a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement across the QA organization
• Provide regular updates on compliance, quality metrics, and strategic initiatives to senior leadership
• Partner with engineering teams to align QA efforts with product development goals from the earliest design stages
• Build scalable frameworks, tools, and analytics to empower engineers to test efficiently and effectively
• Develop automated solutions for monitoring production quality, compliance, and auditing
• Continuously improve testing infrastructure to minimize bugs while enhancing development velocity
• Ensure the QA team delivers actionable insights without creating bottlenecks or unnecessary overhead
• Advocate for QA as a shared responsibility, challenging traditional testing roles
• Educate teams on adopting practices that focus on preventing bugs rather than reactive fixes
• Drive adoption of a zero-open-bugs mindset, emphasizing scalable solutions over manual processes
• Work with Legal and Security teams to stay ahead of changes in regulations and industry guidelines
• Create tools and processes for traceability, auditing, and synchronized logs to ensure compliance
• Ensure privacy guidelines are integrated into development workflows without disrupting productivity
• Help define and communicate compliance policies for engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business needs

Benefits

• A salary adequate to your experience and skills between 80,000 and 120,000 euros
• Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh, which includes: restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, and training tax savings
• Share options plan after 6 months of working with us
• Remote or hybrid work model with our hub in Barcelona
• Flexible working hours (fully flexible, as in most cases you only have to be on a couple of meetings weekly)
• Summer intensive schedule during July and August (work 7 hours, finish earlier)
• 23 paid holidays, with exchangeable local bank holidays
• Additional paid holiday on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate)
• Private healthcare plan with Adeslas for you and subsidized for your family (medical and dental)
• Access to hundreds of gyms for a symbolic fee in partnership for you and your family with Wellhub
• Access to iFeel, a technological platform for mental wellness offering online psychological support and counseling
• Free English and Spanish classes