QA Automation Lead

O projekcie: Quality at esurance is a shared responsibility and this role is where it all comes together. As QA Automation Lead, you’ll own the automation foundation that our cross-functional product squads build on: setting the standards, defining what good looks like, and staying hands-on enough to make it real. You’ll split your time roughly 70/30 between building and governing — close enough to the code to stay credible, and strategic enough to move the whole team forward. If you want a role where your technical decisions ripple across every product we ship, this is it. This Poland-based role offers remote flexibility in Poland only, and we value in-person collaboration. Our team meets in Poland for at least one week each quarter, so we ask all applicants to be located in Poland. This is not a globally remote role - Poland residency is required.The contract form is Umowa o Pracę (brutto). esurance is a Swiss InsurTech offering a SaaS platform that connects SMEs, insurance providers, brokers, and business application providers. Founded in 2013, we’re on a mission to make health insurance for small businesses truly hassle-free. What makes us unique You’ll be part of a connected, forward-thinking team built on trust, openness, and mutual respect — working hybrid from Zürich or remotely across Europe. We invest in your growth through agile practices, real ownership, and a transparent Grading System that ensures fair pay and clear career paths. Our core values - We are connected. - We are ahead. - We are clear. - We are approachable. Do these resonate with you? → Come join us. Wymagania: The essentials: - A strong track record (8+ years) designing and owning test automation frameworks in a modern, microservice environment e.g. Automation maturity, KPI trends (E2E coverage) - Experience defining QA standards, governance practices, and KPIs across multiple teams or workstreams. - The ability to balance hands-on technical delivery with cross-team alignment and leadership-level reporting. Great to have: - Experience building automation KPI dashboards and presenting quality metrics to management. - Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD and integrating automated tests into the development pipeline. - Background working in agile, distributed product organisations — ideally in a scale-up or InsurTech context. What sets you apart as a person: - You lead by doing — equally comfortable deep in code and articulating quality strategy to leadership. - You build trust across teams through consistent standards, clear communication, and results that are visible to everyone. Codzienne zadania: - Define and establish a unified automation framework as the source of truth across all product teams and business services — setting the standard everyone builds to. - Set, measure, and align automation KPIs (coverage, stability, execution time) with leadership and department heads, backed by accessible dashboards and clear reporting. - Translate requirements into automated test strategies, test case designs, and scalable architectures and actively implement them, not just specify them. - Govern and continuously refine test automation standards and integration practices across the full development lifecycle. - Establish transparency via broadly accessible dashboards & reportings - Execute and oversee test activities including release validation and sign-off, with automated quality checks as the backbone. - Contribute to framework refactoring and optimisation, raising the bar on test quality across teams. - Mentor and guide QA Automation Engineers on tooling, patterns, and quality practices — enabling them to work at their best.