Principal Consultant – Engagement Lead QA & Advisory (m/w/d)

About QESTIT

QESTIT is a consulting company specialized in quality assurance, focusing on test management and organizational consulting across the entire Software Development Lifecycle, SAP and non-SAP, with and without AI. As part of the internationally operating QESTIT Group, we are active in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, France and Egypt. In Germany we work from Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Görlitz and Munich.

Your Role

We are evolving: from operational test management towards organizational and process consulting around quality assurance across the entire SDLC. Testing remains our core. Our consultants usually work alone or in small teams directly at the client's site. This is where you come in.

As Engagement Lead, you are responsible for the results and customer satisfaction of selected accounts in the DACH region. You methodically set up new client situations, steer ongoing initiatives as project lead, even if the client does not commission this role separately, and purposefully expand the collaboration with our clients. Your role is oriented toward accounts and projects, not toward a region.

You report directly to the management and are a member of the management board of QESTIT GmbH. You lead professionally; disciplinary leadership lies with our Delivery Center heads, with whom you work closely and at eye level. In the long term, the role may grow to include disciplinary leadership responsibility.

Your Tasks

Steering Projects and Accounts

• You take over project leadership for your existing clients and steer scope, budget, timeline and risks within the framework of the project contracts

• You methodically set up new client situations: target picture, approach (classic, agile or hybrid) and team setup

• You define the methodological approach in your projects and give the teams direction in developing the results together with the client

• You ensure the quality of key deliverables before they go to the client, and you release them

Guiding Teams and Setting Standards

• You professionally and methodically guide our consultants and coach them in their assignments

• You report staffing needs for your accounts and make a decisive contribution to the staffing of your projects

• You develop standards, playbooks and templates and ensure uniform quality standards across your projects

Developing Clients and Reporting Transparently

• You identify growth potential in your accounts and unlock it together with our Sales team

• You actively help shape offers for your accounts

• You report regularly to management on the status of your accounts

• You raise risks early and openly and, if necessary, escalate them to management and to the client

Your Profile

Professional

• You bring several years of experience in quality assurance, test management and consulting, ideally in a consulting company

• You have QA depth across the entire SDLC, from the interface with requirements engineering to test process maturity

• You have experience in SAP test management (SAP Activate, Solution Manager or Focused Build) and equally solid experience in non-SAP projects

• You deliberately apply AI in quality assurance, for example in test data generation or autonomous testing

Methodology and Project Management

• You are equally confident in classic and agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) and situationally choose what fits the client's maturity, in practice usually hybrid

• You master the craft of project steering: scope, risks, budget and stakeholders

• You have experience in organizational and process consulting and in change management, from the as-is analysis to target picture and roadmap

Personal

• You lead without a direct disciplinary line: you coach, moderate conflicts and provide structure

• You act confidently at decision-maker level and have an entrepreneurial sense for potential in ongoing projects

• You communicate clearly and honestly, even when the message is uncomfortable

• You speak fluent German and very good English

• You are willing to travel within the DACH region to our clients

Advantageous

• Certifications such as PMP, IPMA, PRINCE2 or SAFe; they are a plus for us but not a requirement

• Experience in consulting clients in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

What Awaits You With Us

• A newly created key role with plenty of room to shape: you influence how we deliver consulting at QESTIT

• A clear development perspective: in the long term you will also take on disciplinary leadership responsibility

• A seat on the management board with a direct line to management

• Demanding client projects in the DACH region, SAP and non-SAP, with and without AI

• An international environment with colleagues in six countries

• Short decision paths and an appreciative, uncomplicated way of working together

Contact & Application

Interested? We look forward to your application with CV, salary expectations and earliest possible start date.

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