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, driving a mindset shift where engineers own quality. This role offers the chance to build scalable solutions, foster collaboration, and shape a modern QA culture focused on speed and excellence. You'll strategically lead, develop QA tools and frameworks, and champion a quality-first mindset. The position also involves ensuring privacy and compliance, working with legal and security teams. This is a unique opportunity to make a lasting impact in a fast-paced, global tech organization.

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