Quality Engineering Lead

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Avaron helps you find assignments that match your skills and ambitions. As a permanently employed consultant with us, you get competitive terms – combined with the variety and growth that a consulting career offers. About the Assignment In this assignment, you will strengthen software quality and delivery predictability in a connected product development environment within the automotive industry. This is a hands-on, system-level role where you work across teams, suppliers, tooling, and ways of working to reduce risk and turn quality insights into measurable improvements. You will take ownership of how quality is followed up, improved, and translated into action. The role combines analysis, coordination, and practical improvement work, with a strong focus on test effectiveness, KPI relevance, root cause analysis, and release readiness. It is a strong fit if you enjoy driving quality at scale and influencing both engineering practices and product outcomes. Job DescriptionYou will lead data-driven quality improvement initiatives and make sure findings move into a shared improvement backlog. You will analyze quality issues using structured methods, break down root causes, and turn them into clear actions. You will improve test effectiveness, automation signal quality, and the reliability of CI/CD feedback. You will define and follow up software quality KPIs so they reflect product health and customer impact. You will conduct gap and risk analysis, including defect patterns, fault clustering, code hotspots, and code health needs. You will support risk mitigation work in Jira and help teams clarify ownership, testability, and technical debt. You will coordinate cross-functional investigations, align stakeholders, and challenge priorities when needed. You will contribute to ways of working for QA, end-to-end responsibility, verification, and quality strategy. RequirementsStrong background in software quality engineering, continuous improvement, and syste