Software QA Automation Engineer

We are Merlin Digital Partner ! A leading IT and Digital headhunting company who stands out from the crowd, boasting over a decade of experience. We've successfully collaborated and played a pivotal role in the growth of industry heavyweights such as Wallapop, Glovo, Banc Sabadell, and Duracell, among others. Our emphasis lies in people-centric approaches and optimizing the selection processes . Our mission is to revolutionize companies by seamlessly integrating top-tier talent . What sets us apart is our in-depth understanding of each partner (being their best influencer!), addressing not only their needs but also capturing their essence. Our partner is a fast-growing HealthTech company developing connected technologies at the intersection of hardware, embedded systems, IoT, AI and digital health . Their technology transforms everyday environments into intelligent health platforms, enabling seamless and continuous health monitoring. We are currently looking for a Senior Software QA Automation Engineer to join their Engineering team and help ensure the quality, reliability and scalability of their next generation of connected health products. Mission: As a Senior Software QA Automation Engineer , your mission will be to own and evolve the testing strategy, automation frameworks and release validation processes across the software development lifecycle. You will play a key role in increasing automated test coverage, identifying risks early and ensuring products are robust, scalable and production-ready. Working closely with Backend, Frontend, Embedded and Product teams , you will help build a strong quality culture across Engineering, ensuring that quality is embedded throughout the development process rather than treated as a final validation step. The Role: You will be responsible for: Defining and owning the software QA strategy across the product lifecycle. Planning and executing validation processes before production releases . Defining release acceptance criteria and quality gates . Performing functional, regression and integration testing . Identifying quality risks early and helping prevent production issues. Designing, building and maintaining automated testing frameworks . Increasing automated test coverage across backend services, frontend applications and APIs . Developing and evolving unit, integration and end-to-end testing strategies . Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines . Working closely with Engineering teams to improve code quality and testability . Reviewing software changes and identifying potential quality risks. Analyzing bugs, reproducing issues and performing root-cause analysis . Defining and monitoring quality metrics such as test coverage, regression stability, production incidents and release quality . Analyzing production issues through logs, metrics and monitoring tools . Promoting testing best practices and a quality-first engineering culture…