QA Lead

Nomia is transforming the way organizations manage tail spend procurement.

Our AI-powered SaaS platform combines cutting-edge technology with deep human procurement expertise to simplify sourcing, drive compliance, and unlock measurable value.

With a fast-growing global customer base and teams across London, Dubai, Singapore, Krakow, Chicago, and India, we're building a rocket ship for growth, and we're looking for passionate, high-impact people to join us.

The Role

This role is critical to the continuous improvement of the quality assurance function across the Nomia platform.

This includes defining the QA strategy, implementing test frameworks, leading QA, and co-ordinating developers, as well as ensuring the delivery of high quality, reliable and scalable software products and the evolution of the existing platform with enhanced user experiences.

Roles and Responsibilities

You'll lead QA for your specific, clearly defined, product domain (pod)

Define and own the QA strategy, frameworks and standards, leveraging automation as appropriate

You will communicate very closely with the pod Product Manager and ensure their briefings (PRDs, personas, user stories, etc.) are thorough, standard, and provide the clarity required by developers

You will liaise very closely with the Scrum Master in sprint planning and retrospectives

You'll ensure quality is embedded at every stage in the development process

You'll prepare test scripts (for all scenarios) including regression, functional, integration, performance and security

Establish automated and manual testing processes

Define metrics and KPIs to measure and report on product quality and test coverage

Manage documentation in terms of quality, organization, and versioning

Manage release readiness by ensuring all test plans are executed and issues are triaged effectively

Act swiftly and efficiently if UAT readiness is not acceptable

Ensure testing follows CI/CD pipelines

Co-ordinate environment readiness (database connections, content, test data) for effective QA coverage

Ensure adherence to QA best practices, coding standards, and documentation

Support forensic analysis and conduct root-cause analysis for production incidents and drive continuous improvements

Champion a culture of quality across product and engineering teams

Qualifications/Skills

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

8+ years experience in QA with at least 2 years in a lead role

Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and DevOps principles

Experience with testing tools such as Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Postman

Expert skills with collaboration and QA tools such as Confluence, Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, JMeter, Azure Load Testing

Hands on experience with test automation frameworks and scripting/programming languages (JavaScript, Python, Java, .NET C#, etc.)

Experience in API testing, performance testing and AI testing tools

Excellent teamworking, collaboration, and organisational skills

Analytical mindset with strong attention to detail

Excellent English-language verbal and written communication skills

Strong influencer with stakeholder management skills

Bonus: Experience in SaaS, PaaS, fintech or procurement platforms

Bonus: Familiarity with Azure cloud infrastructure

Bonus: ISTQB certification or similar

General Information

• Adhere to Nomia's data protection and information security policies at all times.
• Promote diversity and inclusion in line with Nomia's core values.
• This is a hybrid role, with three office days per week required, potentially more during training or as requested by your supervisor.
• Contribute to continuous improvement in systems and processes.
• Please note that this role description is a guideline, and duties may evolve over time.