Head of Testing

**Your mission**:
**Indivi** is a TechBio company enabling precision and personalised medicine to become a reality in neuroscience research and development. We are going through significant growth and looking for new team members who want to contribute to making our vision — _making measurable what is not so_ — a reality.

**Your profile**:
**As Head of Testing,** you will play a key role in driving the overall Verification and Validation (V&V) strategy across our complex Digital Health products. You will ensure excellence in product quality, data integrity, and regulatory compliance while fostering collaboration across cross-functional and distributed teams.

You will lead both manual and automated testing resources and activities, coordinate V&V planning and execution, and oversee the delivery of robust, validated, and compliant releases that meet the highest standards of safety and performance in a regulated environment.

This position is ideal for a professional with strong leadership and coordination skills, experienced in V&V or QA management, and motivated to build a collaborative, high-performance testing culture.

**This is a full-time, on-site role based in Córdoba, Spain.**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- **Team Leadership & Development**
- Recruit, structure, and develop the V&V organization, including manual and automation testers.
- Build a data-driven culture that emphasizes traceability, evidence, and reproducibility in testing.
- Coach and mentor engineers to embed quality and validation best practices into daily operations.
- Foster collaboration, motivation, and accountability across distributed teams.

- **Verification & Validation Management**
- Plan, coordinate, and monitor all V&V activities
- Define and execute a balanced strategy combining manual and automated testing, ensuring coverage of functional, performance, and data validation aspects.
- Ensure each release follows established quality procedures, including traceability, testing evidence, and documentation sign-off.
- Review and approve all V&V documentation (plans, protocols, reports, validation summaries) in alignment with ISO 13485 and IEC 62304 standards.
- Oversee internal and external V&V resources, including contractors and test laboratories.

- **Data Validation & Quality Assurance**
- Establish robust processes for data validation, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and integrity of clinical and operational data across systems.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and Product teams to define validation rules and test datasets.
- Ensure validation evidence meets both regulatory and scientific standards of reproducibility.

- **Cross-Functional Collaboration**
- Partner with Product Owners, Engineering, Data Science, and Regulatory Affairs to align on release scope, risk assessments, and acceptance criteria.
- Act as the customer’s advocate, ensuring reliability, usability, and compliance are prioritized in development.
- Support audits and inspections by maintaining documentation readiness and ensuring team awareness of compliance requirements.

- **Continuous Improvement**
- Identify opportunities to improve test efficiency, automation coverage, and data validation processes.
- Drive initiatives that prevent defects early in the lifecycle rather than detecting them late.
- Develop and deliver training programs to strengthen quality and validation competencies across teams.

- **Execution & Oversight**
- Ensure timely and meaningful feedback on specifications and design documents.
- Oversee the creation and maintenance of comprehensive V&V test plans, protocols, and reports, with full traceability to the Risk Analysis Matrix and Design Control documentation.
- Manage and prioritize QA/V&V workload across multiple projects, ensuring consistent execution and alignment with scope, schedule, and quality goals.
- Monitor and track defects and test metrics to drive continuous improvement.

**Required Qualifications**:

- **Education**: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in **Computer Science**, **Information Technology**, or a related field.

- **Experience**: 5+ years in **Quality Assurance or V&V**, including at least 2 years in a **team or project management** role.

- Proven experience in **verification and validation** of **digital or regulated products** (e.g., medical device, pharma, fintech).

- Solid knowledge of **validation and compliance frameworks** such as **GxP**, **ISO 13485**, and **IEC 62304**.

- Strong understanding of the **software development lifecycle (SDLC)** and testing methodologies.

- **Languages**: Fluent in **English and Spanish** (written and spoken).

- Excellent **organizational, leadership, and communication skills** — able to **motivate, coach, and coordinate** diverse teams.

- Proactive and collaborative mindset, comfortable working with **cross-functional and remote stakeholders**.

- Strong **documentation and analytical skills**.

**Nice to Have**:

- Experience with **Software as a Medical