Lead QA Engineer - IT

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

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We are looking for aLead Quality Assurance Engineer to join our ERP Applications team (THOR), supporting the internal IFS ERP landscape running on IFS Cloud.

This role is focused on ensuring high-quality delivery ofcustomizations, service updates, and release updates in a live enterprise ERP environment used within IFS. The key objective is toachieve full IT testing coverage of business-critical flows used across IFS functions.

You will work closely withbusiness stakeholders, ERP functional consultants, and engineering teams to understand real business processes and validate how they are executed within the system. This includes ensuring thatend-to-end business scenarios and transactions are fully tested and reliable.

In addition, you will play a key role in drivingautomation of testing for service and release updates, ensuring consistent and efficient validation of changes introduced through IFS Cloud updates.

This is a unique opportunity to work in an environment whereIFS operates as its own customer, giving you exposure to real-world enterprise usage at scale.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and executetest strategies for ERP customizations, service updates, and release cycles
• Understand and validateend-to-end business processes and transactions across ERP domains
• Work closely with business users toidentify critical business flow scenarios and ensure full test coverage
• Performfunctional, integration, and regression testing across Supply Chain, Finance, CRM, Projects, Procurement, and Sustainability
• Ensurecomplete regression coverage for all service and release updates
• Driveautomation of testing for release cycles (API + UI)
• PerformAPI testing using Postman or similar tools
• Contribute toCI/CD pipelines and continuous testing practices
• LeverageAI tools / copilots to improve test automation and efficiency
• Manage testing activities and work tracking usingJIRA within Agile teams
• Support amulti-assignment delivery model, handling multiple concurrent change streams
• Track, manage, and report defects to supportrelease readiness and production stability

QA & Technical Skills

• Hands-on experience in:
  • Manual testing andfunctional automation (API + UI)
  • Regression testing in release-driven environments
  • API testing (Postman or similar tools)
  • Working withCI/CD pipelines
• Basic programming knowledge inJava or Python
• Experience or exposure toAI-driven testing / automation approaches

Ways of Working

• Experience working inAgile teams (Scrum/Kanban)
• Hands-on experience usingJIRA or similar tools for work tracking
• Ability to work in aglobal, distributed team environment
• Comfortable working acrossmultiple concurrent assignments and priorities

Qualifications

• A degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience

• 5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance, with strong exposure to bothmanual testing and test automation

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  ERP & Functional Expertise

• Strong functional domain knowledge inSupply Chain, Finance, CRM, Projects, Procurement, or Sustainability
• Demonstrated ability tounderstand business processes and system transactions within ERP systems
• Experience with ERP platforms such asIFS, SAP, Oracle, or similar
• Hands-on experience inintegration testing across enterprise systems and interface

QA & Technical Skills

• Strong knowledge of QA processes, methodologies, andfull software development lifecycle (SDLC)

• Hands-on experience in:

  • Manual testing and functional automation (API + UI)
  • Regression testing in release-driven environments
  • API testing using Postman or similar tools
  • Designing and executingend-to-end business flow test scenarios
  • Supportingcustomizations, service updates, and release testing

• Experience withtest automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Xray, Cypress or similar) 

• Practical understanding ofCI/CD pipelines and continuous testing practices 

• Basic programming knowledge inJava or Python

• Exposure to or experience withAI-driven testing / automation approaches

Additional Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work in aglobal, distributed team environment
• Proactive mindset with focus onquality, continuous improvement, and ownership

We embrace flexibility and hybrid work opportunities to support diverse needs and lifestyles, while also valuing inclusive workplace experiences. By fostering a sense of community, we drive innovation, strengthen connections, and nurture belonging. Our commitment ensures you can work in a way that suits you best, while also engaging with colleagues to share ideas and build meaningful relationships.