Söderberg & Partners Heartpace AB

Eligibility: Permanent location in the EU or Ukraine is required. We can only consider candidates legally based in the EU or Ukraine.

Join Söderberg & Partners Heartpace AB, a Swedish product company building reliable, high-quality software for the European market. We’re looking for a General QA Lead to lead our General QA team and drive quality across manual and automation testing.

This role is for someone who can combine strong QA expertise with leadership, structure, and ownership. You will guide the team, improve QA processes, support delivery, and ensure that our products are released with confidence.

We’re not looking for someone who only manages tasks or runs checklists. We’re looking for a QA leader who can build a strong QA team, create scalable testing practices, improve release confidence, and balance manual testing, automation, quality strategy, and delivery speed.

What you’ll do

• Lead the General QA team, including planning, coordination, mentoring, and day-to-day QA leadership.
• Own QA strategy and execution across manual and automation testing.
• Set quality standards, testing approaches, and best practices for the QA team.
• Support QA engineers in test planning, test design, automation, risk analysis, and defect management.
• Coordinate QA work across product teams to ensure clear priorities, coverage, and release readiness.
• Improve QA processes across the SDLC, including faster feedback loops, clearer release criteria, and better defect prevention.
• Create, review, and maintain test plans, checklists, test cases, and QA documentation in TestRail and Confluence.
• Lead manual testing activities, including exploratory, regression, acceptance, and risk-based testing.
• Lead automation initiatives using Playwright + TypeScript, including:
  • scalable automation architecture
  • Page Object / fixtures / reusable utilities
  • CI-friendly execution
  • meaningful reporting
  • reducing flakiness
  • improving maintainability
• Ensure proper API testing coverage using Postman and support API test automation where applicable.
• Collaborate with developers, product managers, designers, and leadership to clarify requirements and ensure test coverage.
• Track and communicate QA metrics, risks, defect trends, automation progress, and release readiness.
• Report, track, and verify defects in Jira with clear reproduction steps, severity, priority, and business impact.
• Drive continuous improvement within the QA team and across engineering workflows.
• Use AI tools to improve test design, documentation, automation, analysis, and repetitive QA workflows while keeping security and quality standards intact.

We value

• Team leadership: ability to guide, support, and grow QA engineers.
• Ownership: taking responsibility for quality outcomes, not just QA activities.
• High performance / results-first: measurable impact over process for its own sake.
• Systems thinking: improving how quality is built across teams.
• Data-driven decisions: using risks, metrics, and evidence to guide priorities.
• Fast execution with integrity: speed, reliability, and transparency.
• Continuous improvement: better processes, stronger automation, better releases.

You’ll thrive here if you…

• Enjoy leading a QA team while staying close to the practical work.
• Can turn ambiguity into clear QA plans, priorities, and ownership.
• Know how to balance manual testing, automation, risk, and delivery speed.
• Can mentor QA engineers and raise the overall quality standard.
• Prefer short cycles: ship → measure → improve.
• Care about outcomes over process theater.
• Enjoy building systems that help teams release faster and with more confidence.

What we’re looking for

Must-have

• 6+ years of QA experience in web application testing, including both manual and automation testing.
• Previous experience as a QA Lead, QA Team Lead, Senior QA Engineer, or similar role.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or coordinating QA engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience with test automation, preferably using Playwright + TypeScript.
• Experience designing and maintaining scalable automation frameworks.
• Strong manual testing expertise, including exploratory, regression, acceptance, and risk-based testing.
• Experience defining QA strategy, test plans, release criteria, and QA processes.
• Confident with Postman, TestRail, Jira, and Confluence.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and quality practices in modern product teams.
• Understanding of client-server architecture.
• Web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, HTTP, Ajax, JSON.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear communication.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams and communicate quality risks clearly.
• Leadership mindset with strong ownership and accountability.
• English: Upper-Intermediate+.

Nice-to-have

• Experience managing a distributed QA team.
• Experience introducing or improving QA processes across multiple teams.
• Experience building automation strategy from scratch.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and test execution in build/release workflows.
• Swedish, conversational/professional or native.
• Ukrainian/Russian, as it helps with part of the team.
• Practical AI usage for QA, workflow automation, documentation, and test design.

Interview process

1. Screening interview with the Recruiter
2. Leadership and technical interview with the Tech Lead / Engineering representative
3. Practical discussion or live task focused on QA strategy, team leadership, automation approach, and testing scenarios
4. Final approval interview with the CTO

Why join us?

At Söderberg & Partners Heartpace AB, quality is not a gate at the end — it is a system we build across the full product lifecycle.

As a General QA Lead, you will lead the General QA team, shape how we test and automate, improve release confidence, and help build stronger quality practices across engineering. You’ll have ownership, influence, and the opportunity to make the QA function more scalable, proactive, and impactful.

Ready to join?

Apply now and help us build reliable products, a strong QA team, and better release confidence.

Eligibility: Permanent location in the EU or Ukraine is required (we can only consider candidates legally based in the EU or Ukraine).

Join Söderberg & Partners Heartpace AB, a Swedish product company building reliable, high-quality software for the European market. We’re looking for a QA Engineer (Manual + Automation) who moves fast, takes ownership, and raises the quality bar through smart testing and scalable automation in Playwright (TypeScript).

We’re not looking for someone to “run checklists.” We’re looking for someone who can build confidence in releases, ship quickly with integrity, and accelerate QA and workflows using AI.

What we offer

• Flexibility: fully remote.
• Career growth: clear development paths, mentorship, leadership opportunities.
• Modern tools & processes: Playwright (TypeScript), Postman, TestRail, Jira, Confluence.
• Professional development: certifications, conferences, Udemy access.
• AI-first enablement: we actively automate workflows with AI — and we’ll compensate relevant AI subscriptions you need for your work.
• Relocation support: visa sponsorship and relocation assistance for international candidates.
• Work-life balance: no overtime culture and generous vacation policies.
• Security matters: ISO 27001:2022 certified — strong information security and operational discipline.

What you’ll do

• Own QA for web-based applications: from requirements to release confidence.
• Create and maintain test plans, checklists, and test cases in TestRail.
• Perform manual testing (exploratory, regression, acceptance) with a strong risk-based mindset.
• Build, extend, and maintain test automation in Playwright + TypeScript (from scratch where needed), including:
  • stable test architecture (Page Object / fixtures / reusable utilities)
  • meaningful reporting (Allure/HTML or similar)
  • CI-friendly execution (parallel runs, artifacts, retries)
  • reliable, maintainable suites with minimal flakiness
• Conduct API testing using Postman (and support API test automation where applicable).
• Report, track, and verify defects in Jira with clear repro steps and severity/priority.
• Collaborate closely with developers, product managers, and designers to clarify requirements and ensure test coverage.
• Improve QA processes across the SDLC: faster feedback loops, fewer flaky tests, better release confidence.
• Use AI tools to accelerate test design and reduce repetitive work (while keeping quality and security intact).

We value

• High performance / results-first: measurable impact over activity.
• Entrepreneurial ownership: be the engine, not the passenger.
• Systems thinking + data-driven decisions: rigor, scalability, continuous learning.
• Fast execution with integrity: speed and reliability.
• Continuous improvement: skills, mindset, outcomes.

You’ll thrive here if you…

• Prefer short cycles: ship → measure → iterate.
• Can turn ambiguity into execution (and help others do the same).
• Care about outcomes over process theater.
• Enjoy improving systems, not just following them.

What we’re looking for

Must-have:

• 4+ years in manual + automation QA for web applications.
• Strong hands-on automation experience with Playwright in TypeScript (required).
• Experience building maintainable automation suites: structure, CI, reporting, stability.
• Confident with Postman, TestRail, Jira, Confluence.
• Solid understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum, and quality practices in modern product teams.
• Understanding of client-server architecture.
• Web fundamentals: HTML, CSS, HTTP, Ajax, JSON.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and clear communication.
• English: Upper-Intermediate+.

Nice-to-have:

• Swedish (conversational/professional or native).
• Ukrainian/Russian (helps with part of the team).
• Practical AI usage for QA/workflow automation (we support and compensate relevant subscriptions).

Interview process (3 steps)

1. Screening interview with the Recruiter
2. Technical interview with the Tech Lead + live task (Playwright + TypeScript)
3. Final approval interview with the CTO

Why join us?

At Söderberg & Partners Heartpace AB, quality isn’t a gate at the end — it’s a system we build. You’ll have real ownership, autonomy, and support, plus the opportunity to improve how we ship through Playwright + TypeScript automation, AI, and strong engineering collaboration.

Ready to join?

Apply now and let’s build fast, reliable products together.

Permanent location in the EU or Ukraine is required (we can only consider candidates legally based in the EU or Ukraine).

Join Söderberg & Partners Heartpace AB, a Swedish product company building reliable, high-quality software for the European market. We’re looking for an IT Business Analyst / Project Manager who is first and foremost a strong Business Analyst — someone who can take an idea from the Product Owner, gather and clarify requirements, and turn it into comprehensive, structured, build-ready documentation for the development team.

This role has a strong focus on comprehensive documentation. A key responsibility will be to write clear, detailed, and practical documentation based on product ideas, business needs, stakeholder input, and technical discussions — then break this documentation down into actionable tasks, plan delivery with the team, and support implementation through the full development cycle.

This is not a “meeting-only” BA role. We need someone who can drive outcomes, bring structure to ambiguity, work closely with Product Owners and engineering teams, and make sure requirements are clear enough to build, test, release, and improve. Project management is also an important part of the role: you will help keep delivery organized, facilitate Agile/Scrum processes, manage priorities and dependencies, and support the team in shipping with speed and confidence.

The ideal person has a strong background in business and technical analysis, comprehensive documentation writing, requirements gathering, stakeholder management, task creation, team planning, and conducting Scrum ceremonies.

What we offer

• Tech-driven environment: partner closely with experienced engineers, product owners, designers, QA, and business stakeholders on complex platforms.
• Modern stack exposure: collaborate with teams using Laravel, React, AWS, Docker, GraphQL, and more.
• Professional development: we support certifications, BA/project management courses, Agile/Scrum training, and access to Udemy.
• AI-first enablement: we actively automate workflows with AI — and we’ll compensate relevant AI subscriptions you need for your work.
• Work-life balance: no overtime culture and generous vacation policies.
• Security matters: we are ISO 27001:2022 certified, meaning we take information security and operational discipline seriously.

What you’ll do

• Take ideas and high-level product direction from the Product Owner and turn them into comprehensive, structured documentation for product, engineering, and QA teams.
• Gather, clarify, and document requirements from Product Owners, stakeholders, developers, QA engineers, architects, and other relevant team members.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable, build-ready deliverables: epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, business requirements, functional requirements, technical requirements, and process flows.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation that explains the full context of the feature or change, including:
  • product goals and business value
  • user needs and user flows
  • functional requirements
  • technical requirements
  • business rules
  • edge cases and exceptions
  • dependencies and assumptions
  • data flows and data mappings
  • API/integration notes
  • acceptance criteria
  • QA/testing notes
  • release notes and delivery documentation when needed
• Break down documented requirements into clear Jira tasks, stories, subtasks, and backlog items for the development team.
• Plan implementation together with developers, QA, product, and other stakeholders to define scope, priorities, estimates, dependencies, risks, and delivery approach.
• Work closely with developers, QA engineers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to ensure requirements are understood, feasible, testable, and aligned with product goals.
• Turn ambiguity into execution by clarifying scope, priorities, risks, requirements, assumptions, success metrics, and expected outcomes early.
• Keep the backlog structured, transparent, and ready for development.
• Support project delivery by coordinating priorities, timelines, dependencies, risks, blockers, and stakeholder communication.
• Facilitate Agile/Scrum processes: backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, QA handovers, release readiness, and post-release learning.
• Help the team work in short delivery cycles: idea → requirements → documentation → tasks → planning → build → test → release → improve.
• Use data-driven thinking to validate decisions, measure impact, and support continuous improvement.
• Use AI tools to speed up routine work such as drafting specifications, summarizing meetings, generating structured templates, preparing project updates, and validating edge cases — while keeping accuracy and security intact.

We value

• Comprehensive documentation: clear, structured, detailed, and practical documentation that teams can actually build and test against.
• Strong analytical thinking: ability to understand product ideas, business needs, technical context, and system logic.
• Requirement clarity: turning high-level ideas into specific, testable, and actionable requirements.
• High performance / results-first: measurable impact over activity.
• Entrepreneurial ownership: be the engine, not the passenger.
• Structured execution: clear priorities, clear communication, clear follow-through.
• Data-driven decisions + systems thinking: rigor, scalable processes, continuous learning.
• Fast execution with integrity: speed, quality, and reliability.
• Continuous improvement: skills, mindset, team processes, and outcomes.

You’ll thrive here if you…

• Enjoy turning Product Owner ideas and business needs into comprehensive documentation and clear delivery plans.
• Are strongest in Business Analysis and documentation, but also comfortable taking ownership of delivery coordination.
• Can gather requirements, challenge assumptions, ask the right questions, and document the full picture before implementation starts.
• Can break down complex requirements into clear tasks, stories, acceptance criteria, and implementation plans.
• Communicate equally well with Product Owners, business stakeholders, developers, QA, architects, and leadership.
• Prefer short delivery cycles: idea → requirements → documentation → tasks → planning → delivery → improvement.
• Care about outcomes over process theater.
• Enjoy working closely with engineers and understanding technical context, not only managing tasks.
• Know how to run Scrum processes in a practical, lightweight, and effective way.
• Communicate clearly, calmly, and proactively — especially when priorities shift or complexity increases.

What we’re looking for

• 6+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, IT Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, Technical Business Analyst, Product Owner, Project Manager, Delivery Manager, or similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience in Business Analysis within software development, SaaS, or product companies.
• Excellent documentation skills: ability to write comprehensive, structured, build-ready documentation for developers, QA, product, and business stakeholders.
• Proven experience taking high-level product ideas from a Product Owner or business stakeholder and turning them into clear requirements, tasks, and implementation plans.
• Strong experience gathering requirements, clarifying scope, documenting assumptions, identifying edge cases, and aligning stakeholders.
• Strong experience translating business needs into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, functional requirements, technical requirements, process flows, and release documentation.
• Experience creating and maintaining Jira tasks, stories, subtasks, backlog items, and sprint-ready requirements.
• Good technical understanding of modern web/product systems: client-server architecture, HTTP, JSON, REST/GraphQL, APIs, databases, integrations, and system behavior.
• Solid SDLC understanding and experience working with Agile teams.
• Practical experience with Scrum processes, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and release coordination.
• Experience coordinating software development teams and managing delivery priorities, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder expectations.
• Tooling proficiency: Jira, Notion, Miro, ClaudeCode, Figma, Postman or similar tools.
• Strong stakeholder management: you can align product, engineering, leadership, and business with clarity and calm.
• Strong organizational skills: you can manage documentation, priorities, timelines, meetings, follow-ups, and delivery risks without losing details.
• English: Upper-Intermediate+ for collaboration, facilitation, and documentation.
• Language bonus:
  • Swedish is a strong plus (conversational/professional level or native).
  • Ukrainian/Russian is a plus for smoother communication with part of the team.
• AI usage experience: practical experience using AI tools to accelerate analysis, documentation, planning, meeting summaries, reporting, and requirements validation workflows (we’ll support and compensate relevant subscriptions).

Nice to have

• Previous experience as a Technical Business Analyst, Systems Analyst, QA, developer, product owner, or technical project coordinator.
• Experience in SaaS or product companies.
• Strong experience writing technical documentation for engineering and QA teams.
• Scrum Master, Product Owner, PMP, PRINCE2, AgilePM, or similar certification.
• Exposure to Laravel, React, or similar product stacks.
• Familiarity with CI/CD, AWS/cloud concepts, or containerized environments such as Docker.
• Experience improving BA processes, documentation standards, backlog quality, delivery metrics, or cross-team communication.

Interview process (3 steps)

1. Screening interview with the Recruiter.
2. Technical / BA interview with the Tech Lead.
3. Final approval interview with the CTO.

Why join us?

At Söderberg & Partners Heartpace AB, we build with speed and discipline — and we take clarity seriously. You’ll have real ownership, close cooperation with strong engineering teams, and the opportunity to shape how we analyze, document, plan, and deliver product outcomes.

You’ll be the person who helps turn Product Owner ideas into clear requirements, comprehensive documentation, actionable tasks, and realistic delivery plans — making sure the right things are clearly understood, well documented, and built in the right way.

Ready to join?

Apply now and let’s build fast, reliable products together.