
Senior Quality Assurance Specialist
Hidden Trail • Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
Role & seniority: Quality consultant (mid-to-senior level) focused on improving digital product quality and coaching client teams.
Stack/tools: AI-driven test automation; test automation suites; CI/CD pipelines; various testing types (integration, performance); modern tooling and methodologies; DevOps mindset; experience leveraging AI tooling for productivity.
Top 3 responsibilities
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Coach and mentor client organizations on quality and development practices.
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Build top-tier AI-driven test automation solutions ensuring fast, informative feedback.
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Define quality strategy and processes for projects; lead quality initiatives in large-scale programs.
Must-have skills
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Ability to understand client business and translate into quality practices.
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Experience across technology projects and testing with knowledge of modern tooling/methodology.
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Understanding of complex software architectures and modern infrastructures.
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Experience in test automation, CI/CD, and other testing disciplines (integration, performance).
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Software development or software project leadership experience.
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Modern DevOps mindset; initiative-taking; coaching/mentoring capability.
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Ability to apply AI tooling for productivity.
Nice-to-haves
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AI tooling experience to boost productivity.
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Broad experience across environments and architectures; capability to guide large development organizations.
Location & work type: Offices in Helsinki, Tampere, Berlin, and Mala
Full Description
Are you looking for a chance to bring digital product quality to the next level and use your expertise to drive the tech industry forward? Do you enjoy investigating and looking for the root causes for problems in software quality and development processes? Are you deeply knowledgeable and passionate and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and do what needs to be done?
Our enthusiastic team of Quality professionals is looking for people to join our merry ranks in our Helsinki, Tampere, Berlin and Malaga offices. The cases and teams you’ll work on will be at the very core of our client’s success. For example you could be coaching quality or development practices to clients working on their most business critical-systems, or you could build test automation together with a client that ensures the functionality of their core product.
As a consultant at Hidden Trail, you’ll apply quality thinking to meaningful problems that have no ready-made answers. Your tasks could include
\ Getting to work on important technology projects that are essential to the client’s business
\ Building top of the line AI driven test automation solutions that ensure fast and informative feedback
\ Coaching, teaching and mentoring skills to and within our client organizations
\ Applying wide array of tech and people skills to ensure quality in the most business critical projects
\ Choosing the right tool for the job, whether that means technical tools or other practices
\ Quality leadership in large scale projects where your wisdom will guide the whole development organization forward
\ Defining Quality strategy and processes for a fresh project to best serve the client’s need and own resources
We are building Hidden Trail to thrive in a quickly evolving environment while ensuring the well-being of our people.
Some of the things we are looking for (you do not need to fit all of these)
\ Ability to understand the client's business to best advise them on how Quality practices can be used to achieve their business goals
\ Experience in different types of technology projects and environments including experience with testing and a knowledge of modern tooling and methodology
\ Understanding of complex software architectures and modern infrastructures
\ Experience in Test automation, Continuous Integration & Deployment pipelines, and other more technical fields of testing such as integration testing, performance testing etc.
\ Experience in software development or leading software projects
\ A modern DevOps mindset
\ Experience in leveraging AI tooling for productivity
\ The ability to take initiative to make things happen and drive things forward
\ Skills and confidence to coach and mentor others
Our experts are the foundation of our high-quality work, and your well-being is always our number one priority. You’ll be supported with weekly internal training opportunities and events, a great team with the willingness and time to help, and a comprehensive benefit package.
None of us are ever ready and we don’t intend for this post to be a shopping list for a nonexistent unicorn, but as more of an overview of the kind of things we are interested in. Come talk with us and let’s find out if we are a match. Show more Show less