QA Lead
💰 €90,000 – €130,000/yr
At a glance
- Who can apply
- Germany
- Work arrangement
- On-site · Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Lead
- Salary
- €90,000 – €130,000/yr · published by the employer
Checked against the employer's source on October 14, 2026. Details come from the employer's posting; confirm them on the application page.
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Job Description
This isn’t your regular job. Almedia is a place where those who want to push harder can accelerate their careers faster than anywhere else. We’re aiming to become Germany’s second bootstrapped unicorn. Almedia is already Europe’s #3 fastest-growing company in 2025 (FT1000).
We are building the future of marketing by rewarding our community of over 80 million users for engaging with our advertisers’ products. We are offering a new way to acquire users for the biggest companies in the world.
At Almedia, you’ll:
Own way more, way earlier — you’ll be trusted with responsibility fast.
Push harder, get further — this isn’t a 9–5. We highly reward intensity.
Join a rare environment — you will work with ambitious high-speed, high-ownership people.
Fully present — we’re 5 days a week in the office to build the energising momentum we need.
€90K – €130K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus
About the role
We're looking for a hands on QA Lead who sees quality as a product problem, not just a testing problem. This isn't a traditional QA role focused solely on executing test cases or building automation frameworks. Instead, you'll own quality end-to-end, sitting between Product and Engineering to ensure we ship fast without compromising user experience.
You'll be given problems, not step-by-step instructions. We need someone who is highly autonomous, product-minded, engineering-oriented, and AI-native. We are looking for someone who can identify where quality risks exist, decide how best to solve them, and implement the right processes, tooling, and testing strategy.
You'll shape how quality is approached across the business, introducing AI-enabled testing practices, improving release confidence, coordinating an outsourced QA function, and defining where manual testing, automation, and production monitoring each provide the most value. While experience with Playwright and test automation is important, we're not looking for a pure automation engineer—we're looking for someone who understands the bigger picture of delivering exceptional products.
What You'll Do 🎯
Own quality across the entire product lifecycle, from feature design through to production monitoring,
Develop and execute a modern QA strategy that balances manual testing, automation, and production observability.
Introduce AI-powered tools and workflows to improve testing efficiency, coverage, and speed.
Build and maintain end-to-end automated test suites.
Decide where manual exploratory testing delivers the highest value and ensure critical user journeys are thoroughly validated.
Partner closely with Product and Engineering to identify risks early and embed quality into development rather than treating it as a final step.
What You'll Bring 💡
Strong experience owning software quality in modern product teams.
Experience balancing manual testing, automation, and production monitoring rather than specialising exclusively in one area.
Hands-on experience building and maintaining automated tests, ideally using Playwright.
A solid understanding of modern QA practices, CI/CD pipelines, release management, and testing strategies.
Experience introducing AI tools or AI-assisted workflows into software testing and quality processes.
Strong communication skills and the ability to influence Product and Engineering teams through data and practical decision-making.