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Quality Assurance Lead

NedGraphics Software

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Proven experience leading or managing a QA team
  • Demonstrated experience building or executing QA strategy
  • Hands-on background in software testing
  • Solid experience testing native desktop applications

Responsibilities

  • Design and own the QA strategy across products
  • Lead a strategic transformation of the QA function
  • Establish clear standards, processes, and quality gates for product releases
  • Expand automation coverage significantly across the product suite

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Quality Assurance
  • Communication
  • Team Management
  • Collaboration

About the company

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NedGraphics Software

NedGraphics™ is the leading provider of textile design and CAD / CAM software solutions for the apparel, home furnishings, flooring, and other textile markets. Our products allow designers to exercise unconstrained creative freedom while improving efficiency, productivity, time to market, and accuracy to create production-ready artwork. NedGraphics' solutions play an important role in promoting sustainability through digitization by optimizing product development workflows, eliminating design errors, and reducing sampling costs. NedGraphics provides dedicated tools for print, woven, and knitted fabric design, carpet and tuft, color management and calibration, virtual product visualization, storyboard presentation, merchandising, and more. The portfolio also includes a collection of professional textile and apparel design plug-ins for Adobe® Illustrator® & Photoshop®, named 'NedGraphics for Adobe®’. NedGraphics Software is part of FOG Software Group, a division of Constellation Software Inc. (TSX:CSU). FOG Software Group acquires, manages, and builds software companies in a variety of vertical markets, enabling them to be clear leaders in their industries.

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Company size51 - 200

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Job description

This is a new leadership role at NedGraphics, created to give our Quality Assurance (QA) function dedicated ownership at a senior level. You will lead a team of 5 QA engineers and take full responsibility for quality across our product portfolio, working closely with VP Engineering and the wider R&D team.
AI tooling is increasing the pace and output of our engineering teams. This is an exciting moment to be leading QA: the opportunity is to build a modern, high-performing quality function that keeps pace with accelerating software delivery, expands automation coverage, and raises the bar on what good looks like.

This role is fully remote and open to candidates in the EU and UK. 


Key Responsibilities Leadership and Strategy
  • Design and own the QA strategy across the NedGraphics and Optitex product portfolios, bringing a clear point of view on what good looks like based on prior experience building QA functions elsewhere
  • Lead a strategic transformation of the QA function: moving it from its current state to a modern, automation-first, AI-enabled operation, with a credible roadmap and milestones
  • Build a quality-focused culture within the team and across the wider engineering organisation
  • Establish clear standards, processes, and quality gates for product releases, informed by best practices from previous roles
  • Work closely with engineering leads and Product Managers to integrate QA throughout the development lifecycle
  • Set a clear direction for the team and develop individuals to reach their potential
  • Act as a hands-on people leader: manage performance, run 1:1s, and support career development for a team of 5
Automation and Tooling
  • Expand automation coverage significantly across the product suite
  • Set the automation roadmap and direct the existing automation engineer
  • Identify and introduce AI-assisted testing tools to improve speed and coverage
  • Progressively reduce reliance on manual regression testing
Hands-on Testing
  • Contribute directly to test design, execution, and defect analysis on complex features
  • Stay close to the product portfolio to provide well-informed quality judgment
  • Set the standard for how good testing is done

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise Essential
  • Proven experience leading or managing a QA team, ideally having built or significantly transformed a QA function from the ground up
  • Demonstrated experience building or executing QA strategy, not just following one: you know what good looks like and can point to a track record of setting the direction yourself
  • Hands-on background in software testing; this is a player-coach role
  • Solid experience testing native desktop applications
  • Working knowledge of at least one test automation framework for UI desktop applications (e.g. WinAppDriver, Appium, Squish by Qt Group, or equivalent)
  • Proficient in Python and shell scripting for building and maintaining test automation
  • Ability to integrate the automation framework into a wider AI agentic-based build flow, spanning tools such as Azure DevOps, Cursor, and Claude cloud agents
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to influence engineers, PMs, and senior stakeholders
  • A track record of improving QA processes and delivering measurable results
  • Experience working effectively across multiple time zones with a globally distributed team, including asynchronous collaboration and flexible scheduling
  • Prior experience leading a team, with a clear approach to setting direction, delegating, and developing people
Desirable
  • Experience with AI-assisted testing tools or a genuine interest in adopting them
  • Background in software product companies, ideally with desktop application portfolios
  • Exposure to agile or scrum delivery environments
  • Experience growing an automation capability from the ground up
  • Familiarity with Azure DevOps for work item tracking, test plans, and pipeline integration

Benefits
  • A new, senior role with real scope to shape how quality is done at NedGraphics
  • Close collaboration with VP Engineering and a technically strong R&D team
  • A team of 5 QA engineers to lead and develop
  • Competitive salary plus 5% discretionary bonus
  • Flexible working arrangements across EU/UK

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