
QA Head – Hybrid
GFT Technologies
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Alphaville • Brazil
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About the role
- Periodically assess the QA maturity level (processes, tools, roles and governance).
- Structure and evolve the Software Quality Center, defining the operating model, ceremonies, responsibilities and minimum artifacts.
- Promote continuous improvements focused on simplicity, efficiency and alignment with business reality.
- Define and maintain the corporate knowledge repository (processes, strategies, standards, frameworks, best practices and welcome kit).
- Develop and promote continuous training through a testing academy, mentoring and certifications.
- Conduct training sessions, courses and workshops to disseminate quality practices and techniques.
- Evaluate and optimize the use of existing testing and automation tools, prioritizing stabilization, reuse and quick wins.
- Propose feasible incremental automations, respecting team capacity and avoiding complex or hard-to-maintain solutions.
- Guide the development of end-to-end automated flows when technically and economically viable.
- Support the definition of the corporate automation architecture, with standardized frameworks, library reuse, APIs and E2E tests.
- Support integration with CI/CD pipelines, including parallelism and test execution strategies.
- Define and maintain the SDLC with Quality policies (Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, acceptance criteria and minimum coverage).
- Standardize testing processes: functional, API, mobile, regression, exploratory, smoke and UAT.
- Ensure defect management (triage and fix SLAs, severity, priority, rework and escaped defects).
- Define, evolve and monitor quality and efficiency indicators (test coverage, defects in production, average validation time, recurrence of failures).
- Produce clear and concise executive reports for the board and governance forums.
- Support data-driven decision making.
- Ensure compliance and auditability by publishing corporate KPIs on process adherence and maturity level.
- Define and track action plans to advance team maturity, ensuring execution through to resolution.
Requirements
- Strong experience in QA / Software Quality in complex and regulated environments.
- Experience in structuring processes, governance and quality metrics.
- Experience with test automation and CI/CD integration.
- Ability to act strategically and hands-on.
- Clear communication skills for interaction with technical teams and executives.
Benefits
- Multi-benefits card – choose how and where to use it.
- Tuition support for Undergraduate, Postgraduate, MBA and language courses.
- Certification incentive programs.
- Flexible working hours.
- Competitive salaries.
- Annual performance review with a structured career plan.
- Opportunity for international career.
- Wellhub and TotalPass.
- Private pension plan.
- Childcare assistance.
- Health insurance.
- Dental insurance.
- Life insurance.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
QA maturity assessmenttest automationCI/CD integrationSDLCquality metricsdefect managementend-to-end automated flowstesting processesdata-driven decision makingcorporate knowledge repository
Soft Skills
strategic thinkinghands-on approachclear communicationmentoringtraining facilitationcontinuous improvementorganizational skillsleadershipcollaborationproblem-solving