Lead Test Engineer - Hybrid / Remote

What's the role?
About the Team
HERE Tour planning is the engine behind multi-vehicle route optimization, empowering businesses to design smarter, faster, and more driver-friendly tours.
We harness the world's most precise and up-to-date map data, real-time traffic insights, road restrictions, and driver preferences to craft tours that are both efficient and practical. Our mission? To transform complexity into clarity-delivering solutions that reduce travel time, cut costs, and keep logistics running like clockwork.
But we don't stop at optimization. Our algorithms factor in every critical detail-driver preferences, delivery time windows, vehicle capacities, and compliance requirements-to ensure that every plan isn't just efficient and adhering to required constraints. This holistic approach drives cost savings, delivery accuracy, and driver satisfaction while ensuring operations remain sustainable and compliant.
If you're passionate about solving real-world problems at scale, developing sophisticated algorithms, and pushing the boundaries of logistics technology, this is your opportunity to shine.
Learn more about the product here: HERE Tour Planning | Fleet Management | Solutions | HERE
We are an international team of product developers and researchers passionate about solving complex optimization problems and delivering value to customers. Our key product is a VRP solver, powered by advanced optimization algorithms and deep research. If you love automation, enjoy tackling deep technical challenges, and want to improve QA efficiency with smart solutions, this is the right place for you.
Our tech stack includes Rust, Kotlin, Python, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform.
As a Lead Test Engineer, you will play a key role in driving innovation in test automation and efficiency, ensuring that our Tour Planning and Extended Services meet the highest standards of performance, scalability, and reliability. While this is an individual contributor role, you will lead QA efforts across teams, guide other QA engineers, and drive a culture of automation and continuous improvement.
Responsibilities

• Lead QA strategy, ensuring high standards for performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Drive innovation in improving test efficiency, automation processes, and team productivity.
• Develop and maintain automated test frameworks for REST API testing, performance validation, and system reliability.
• Automate test execution and QA processes, integrating with CI/CD pipelines for seamless deployments.
• Collaborate across teams-work closely with developers, product managers, solution architects, tech support, and enabler services teams to improve quality at every stage of development.
• Continuous testing culture, promoting automation and early defect detection.
• Investigate customer-reported issues, reproduce use cases, and ensure high-impact issues are resolved efficiently.
• Monitor real-world product behavior, tracking logs, metrics, and customer feedback for continuous improvement.

Who are you?

• Master's degree in Computer Science or an equivalent field, with 10+ years of industry experience in quality assurance.
• Strong programming skills in Python and at least one high-level language such as Java/Kotlin (or equivalent), with a willingness to learn.
• Proven experience in automation-both test automation and process automation to improve team efficiency. Experience with API and backend testing.
• Experience in REST API testing-ensuring reliability, correctness, and performance of backend services.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud-based testing (AWS preferred).
• Ability to debug and analyze complex distributed systems.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication skills-comfortable working cross-functionally and advocating for quality best practices.

Would be a plus:

• Familiarity with logistics, location-based technologies, or geospatial data is a strong plus.

What we offer?

• Cutting edge and modern technologies
• Fantastic & talented people from 60+ countries worldwide
• Opportunities to learn and grow: company hackathons, technical talks, and training
• Flexible working hours
• Minimum 25 paid vacation days
• Meal Vouchers, Medical cover for you and your family, Vision Support
• Competitive salary plus bonus
• This role is eligible for Creative Tax Incentive scheme in Poland" or KUP (Autorskie Koszty Uzyskania Przychodu)
• B2B contract possible

Change is HERE. Apply Now!
As part of HERE Technologies employment process, candidates will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment screening process. This offer and any related claims are subject to the successful completion of pre-employment screening. This will involve employment, education, and criminal verification if applicable.
HERE is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.
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Who are we?
HERE Technologies is a location data and technology platform company. We empower our customers to achieve better outcomes - from helping a city manage its infrastructure or a business optimize its assets to guiding drivers to their destination safely.
At HERE we take it upon ourselves to be the change we wish to see. We create solutions that fuel innovation, provide opportunity and foster inclusion to improve people's lives. If you are inspired by an open world and driven to create positive change, join us. Learn more about us on our YouTube Channel.