Team Lead Quality Assurance (m/f/d) in Berlin or Konstanz

Permanent employee, Full-time · Berlin, Konstanz, Hybrid

Description

KNIME is growing rapidly and we’re seeking smart, motivated, and creative people up for the challenge of helping us achieve ambitious scaling goals while continuing to empower the active community. Right now, we are looking for a Team Lead QA (m/f/d) to join our team at KNIME in Berlin/Konstanz.*

Who you are

You lead and coach engineers, prioritize risks, and communicate trade-offs clearly to product and engineering stakeholders.
You take end-to-end ownership of product quality and enjoy transforming ambiguous requirements into reliable verification strategies.
You are motivated to modernize testing, reduce flakiness, establish reliable release gates, and support a continuous delivery approach that is fast, measurable, and safe.
You understand the distinct challenges of on-premises installations and SaaS/multi-tenant platforms, and you can design and implement testing and release practices for both.
You are hands-on with test automation (web, API, backend), CI/CD integration, and performance and scalability testing for multi-tenant systems, with proven experience in these areas.
You write and review test code (Python, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript), understand cloud and container environments, and CI/CD tooling. You also mentor junior engineers to help them ramp up quickly.
You are comfortable working with, or learning, our current testing tools—such as Robot Framework, k6, or Testpad. Prior experience with all of them is not required.
You have at least 7 years of experience in QA, including a minimum of 2 years in a leadership or management role.

That's the job

You will serve as the senior quality technologist and people leader for QA across the tech stack, defining and driving a comprehensive end-to-end QA strategy that includes automation, release gating, performance, and integration testing.

You will own the automation architecture, collaborate with DevOps and CloudOps to integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines, and lead a team that delivers traceable and reliable release evidence for platforms deployed in both SaaS and on-premises environments.

You will work closely with Product, Engineering, DevSecOps, and CloudOps to embed testing early, increase release confidence, and strengthen QA capabilities through mentoring and hiring.

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About us

KNIME is a fast-growing international Enterprise Software company. At KNIME, we build innovative software to help individuals and organizations make sense of their data through an intuitive, visual approach to data analytics and through integrations to the most advanced data science and AI/ML techniques on the market. KNIME Software comprises two products: the free and open KNIME Analytics Platform which has an intuitive low-code, no-code interface that allows anyone from spreadsheet users to seasoned data scientists to analyze their data; and KNIME Business Hub, its commercial complement that allows for large-scale collaboration and dissemination of insights across an enterprise.

At the core, we are an open-source company, which requires KNIMErs often to challenge and rethink conventional commercial strategies and ensure that the user – whether free or commercial – is at the center of every decision being made. At KNIME, you’ll gain experience working with industry leaders in their field – KNIME is used by many Fortune 500 enterprise customers, across 60 countries.

*Though we are happy to have applicants from further away, we’re not offering relocation benefits for this position.

KNIME is an equal opportunity employer. We’re all about providing opportunities for different perspectives to come together, where everyone feels included no matter their background.

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Join us at KNIME

We do not expect elaborate explanations of how you might fit with our team but adding a paragraph or two explaining how your expertise and interests match what we do at KNIME will help us put your application into context (and have it stick out among the many mass applications that we unfortunately receive every day as well).

And if you do believe your background and interests fit in with KNIME in other ways not listed above, please add a few explanatory paragraphs and ideally point us to an example or two of your past work and explain how you think this could fit with KNIME.