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Senior QA Automation Engineer

Hybrid in Madrid·Full-time·Added 2 months ago

Still open when we checked on 5 Oct

NN Group

28 open roles

Overview

Job details

  • Permanent contract

    Full-time.

  • Hybrid

    Office and home days — the ad has the split.

Requirements

  • Have the right to work in Spain

    NN Group doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.

  • Work in English

    English is required, per the ad.

  • Be near Madrid for hybrid days

    No relocation package mentioned.

  • Have 5+ years of experience

    Senior-level role.

Benefits

  • Private health insurance

    Per the ad: paid by the employer, or taken through flexible pay.

  • Life insurance

    Per the ad.

Skills

Nice to have

Pay & benefits

What you'll get

As part of our Employee Experience, we offer you a range of competitive benefits that are available to you in order to improve the physical, mental, and professional wellbeing of our workers. Among the benefits are:

  • We work with a hybrid model

  • Starting financial aid so you can equip your workspace at home

  • Allowance and telework subventions

  • Flexible working hours and 2 months of intensive working hours in summer so you can fully take advantage of your time

  • We hire a life insurance and a pension plan for all our employees

  • We establish objectives bonus as a performance reward

  • You can get to the office as you please. We have a free parking lot for cars, motorbikes, electric cars with chargers, and bikes.

  • Get to know our flexible retribution facilities such as transport card, nursery checks, health insurance with Sanitas, trainings...

  • We care about people. That is why we are involved in society by facilitating volunteer actions and time to all our employees.

  • We care about your wellbeing. We have a Wellness Program available.

  • We are digital and we love technology. Also, every team works under agile methodology.

The role

What you'll do

  • Define, implement, and continuously improve test automation frameworks and standards across C&D

  • Actively engage with teams to identify testing needs, gaps, and improvement opportunities

  • Proactively drive adoption of QA best practices and the NN QA Maturity Model

  • Design and implement automated tests across TEST and ACC environments

  • Build and promote reusable solutions and test automation patterns

  • Investigate recurring issues and initiate structural improvements

  • Monitor and improve collaboration and processes across TEST and Acceptance environments

  • Facilitate knowledge sharing within the Engineering Guild and Test Circle

  • Act as a coach and sparring partner for QA engineers and development teams

  • Take ownership of improving quality-not only technically, but also organizationally and culturally

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer

Your Impact as Senior Quality Assurance Engineer: What are you going to do

As a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, you take a leading and proactive role in shaping quality across the organization. You do not wait for work to come to you-instead, you actively engage with teams, identify gaps, and drive improvements in testing practices and automation.

You define and implement testing standards and frameworks, and actively work across teams to understand their needs, challenges, and opportunities.

You work closely with development and QA engineers across teams, ensuring clear, high-quality test reporting in English. You play a key communicative and coordinating role, combining deep technical expertise with strong stakeholder management, attention to detail, and a proactive mindset. In this role, you collaborate closely with the other Test Environment Coordinator and Lead QA Engineers, and act as a senior sparring partner and coach within the QA domain.

Your impact as a QA Automation Engineer at Customer & Digital

You play a key role in improving the quality and stability of our digital platforms by:

  • Proactively reaching out to teams to understand their testing challenges and helping them adopt better practices

  • Driving organization-wide quality standards and automation strategies

  • Acting as a trusted advisor for QA, helping teams improve their maturity and effectiveness

  • Ensuring issues are not only solved, but structurally prevented through standardization and insights

  • Creating clarity and alignment across teams, especially in complex or disrupted environments

Your ability to take initiative, connect people, and drive improvements directly impacts developer productivity, product quality, and customer experience.

Who You Are

  • Fluent in English (spoken and written), with experience in international environments

  • 5-7 years of experience in QA Automation / Test Engineering

  • Proven experience in setting up standards and frameworks across multiple teams

  • Strong experience with tools such as: JMeter, Playwright, BrowserStack, Azure DevOps Test Plans, JUnit, Typescript/CDK

  • Experience with DevOps and CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps)

  • Knowledge of monitoring/observability tools (e.g. Splunk) is a plus

  • Experience with Selenium, Appium, UIPath, Python, JavaScript is a plus

  • You are highly proactive and self-driven: you take ownership, seek out problems, and act without waiting for direction

  • You have a strong "reach-out" mindset and actively connect with teams to understand their needs

  • You are comfortable working in an organization-wide role, influencing multiple teams and stakeholders

  • You combine technical expertise with strong communication and stakeholder management skills

  • You have a continuous improvement mindset and enjoy driving change

  • You act as a leader in the QA domain, setting standards and guiding others

If you are a passionate and experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply for this position. We are waiting for you!

Please send your CVs in English language.

In Nationale-Nederlanden we are committed with diversity. We are proud to be an inclusive organization and we offer equal opportunities, regardless of race, cultural background, gender, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, marital status, and sexual orientation. One of our core values is taking care of our employees so they can give their best within a respectful environment.

Hiring process

3 steps2 interviewsa task to do
  1. Application

  2. Profile review · With a recruiter and hiring manager

  3. First interview

  4. E-assessment

    Online test

    An online assessment and personality test completed before the second interview.

  5. Second interview

  6. Job offer · With a recruiter

  7. Pre-employment screening

  • A response to the application is promised within two weeks.
  • NN aims to schedule the first interview within one week.
  • You can apply for more than one job at the same time.

About NN Group

NN Group is a global financial services company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands, with a strong focus on insurance, asset management, and banking. It operates primarily in Europe and Japan, serving millions of customers with life insurance, pensions, and investment products. The company is one of the largest financial institutions in the Netherlands and has a significant international footprint, employing tens of thousands of people worldwide.

In Spain, NN Group has a growing technology and operations hub, with a particular emphasis on data engineering, cloud solutions, and software development. The Spanish office, located in Madrid, is a key center for the company's digital transformation initiatives, offering roles in MLOps, cloud engineering, and data governance. NN Group is known for its collaborative and innovative work culture, and it actively seeks international talent to support its global operations, making it an attractive option for professionals looking to relocate to Spain.

Founded
1963
Employees
10,000–20,000
Headquarters
The Hague, Netherlands
In Spain
Madrid, Barcelona

Good to know if you are moving

  • NN Group has a significant technology hub in Barcelona, Spain, with many roles in cloud, data, and software engineering.
  • The company offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility between office and remote work.
  • NN Group is a global financial institution, providing opportunities for international career growth and mobility.
  • The Spain office is part of a global digital transformation initiative, offering exposure to cutting-edge technologies like MLOps and cloud platforms.
  • English is commonly used in the Spanish tech hub, making it accessible for international professionals.

In their own words

About the company & team

NN Digital Hub is a subsidiary company of Nationale Nederlanden Group located in Madrid, Spain. We deliver IT services and solutions for the different international Business Units from Nationale Nederlanden Group.

Every team that contributes to the TST, ACC and Production environments content is your partner in the day-to-day running - so that's a big group; but the coordination and your own team is the IT/Performance & Monitoring team of C&D. This core team deals with central solutions and problems regarding monitoring, performance and is currently investigating how the use of the Test systems can be improved, how QA Automation can be promoted as a shared knowledge center, and disruptions can be better managed. You report to the Manager of the Center of Engineering; the Lead Engineering Manager C&D, and work with the Product Owner of the Performance & Monitoring team using Agile methodologies and OKR approach.

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