Eurofins is an international network of independent life sciences companies, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

The Eurofins network is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across its companies around the world.

In a nutshell

We are looking for a Software Quality Assurance Manager to provide independent quality assurance, validation governance and compliance oversight for our Eurofins Quality Management System — eQMS, a GxP-regulated, custom-built enterprise application.

This role will ensure that software development, testing, release and validation activities are performed in line with Eurofins Quality Policies, SDLC standards and regulatory expectations, including GxP and GAMP5.

You will also play a key role in driving modern software quality engineering practices, with a strong focus on test automation, continuous testing and scalable validation approaches within DevOps environments.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

You will be part of Eurofins GSC IT Solutions, supporting the Pharma business line.

This is a role with global scope and visibility, working closely with Product Management, Application Management, Development, DevOps, Validation and Business Quality teams.

How can you help us?

As Software Quality Assurance Manager, you will act as the independent quality authority for eQMS software releases, ensuring that quality, compliance and validation requirements are embedded across the full software lifecycle.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Owning and maintaining the software quality assurance framework for the eQMS application.
• Defining and enforcing quality gates across SDLC phases, including requirements, design, build, testing and release.
• Reviewing and approving key documentation such as user requirements, functional and technical specifications, test plans, protocols, summary reports, release candidates and deployment documentation.
• Ensuring end-to-end traceability between requirements, testing, release and validation evidence.
• Overseeing Computer System Validation activities, including validation plans, risk-based impact assessments, IQ/OQ/PQ activities where applicable, and validation summary reports.
• Ensuring change management is applied consistently across functional, technical and configuration changes.
• Reviewing change impact assessments, regression testing scope, deviations and quality risk acceptances.
• Providing formal QA release approval for production deployments.
• Supporting audits and regulatory inspections as the QA representative.
• Ensuring software quality and validation documentation remains current, approved and audit-ready.
• Driving continuous improvement through quality metrics, trend analysis, audit findings, CAPA follow-up and lessons learned.

A key part of the role will also be to define and drive the test automation strategy for the eQMS platform. You will help move the organization towards automation-first testing approaches, integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and embedding shift-left quality practices across the lifecycle.

You will ideally bring:

• A Bachelor’s degree in IT, Engineering, Life Sciences or an equivalent field.
• Extensive experience in Application Testing or Software Quality Assurance within regulated GxP environments.
• Proven experience with custom-built, enterprise-scale applications.
• Strong knowledge of SDLC quality controls and validation principles.
• Practical experience with GAMP5 and risk-based validation.
• Strong expertise in test automation frameworks and tools, including UI/API automation and test orchestration platforms.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Solid understanding of software engineering principles applied to quality assurance, including test design, code maintainability and version control.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You are someone who combines strong quality judgement with technical credibility. You are comfortable operating independently, challenging when needed and providing clear guidance in complex, regulated environments.

You enjoy working in a global and matrixed organization, partnering with technical teams, product teams and quality stakeholders to ensure software is compliant, reliable and audit-ready.

You are rigorous, analytical and proactive, but also pragmatic. You know how to balance compliance expectations with the need for scalable, efficient and modern software delivery.

You’ll also bring:

• The ability to operate as an independent QA authority in a global IT organization.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to escalate compliance risks clearly to IT and Quality leadership.
• High autonomy, accountability and professional judgement.
• The ability to lead quality and automation initiatives at enterprise scale.
• Confidence working with Product, Development, DevOps, Validation and Business Quality teams.
• A continuous improvement mindset, with the ability to identify lessons learned and translate them into better quality practices.
• Strong technical leadership in software quality engineering and test automation, without direct responsibility for software development delivery.

We support your development! Do you feel like you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

We embrace diversity!  As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Find out more on our Careers page: https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description: Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.

Please note that, as our Talent Acquisition team operates internationally, we kindly ask candidates to submit their applications in English.