Testing Lead — adidas (NEXT)

Leading quality and testing efforts in the NEXT area — the core of adidas’s global e-commerce platform. NEXT underpins backend services powering the major consumer frontends used by millions of customers worldwide. Full-year 2025 net sales: €24.8B.

The role is built around continuous awareness across four teams. Close enough to the code, test suites, and in-flight work in each team to drop in as an IC where the leverage is highest — the hardest production bugs, the risky changes, the framework decisions — while also setting the overall direction of each team individually and of the four as a group.

Highlights

• Testing strategy aligned with Rapid Software Testing and Agile Testing — defining scope, coaching testers and developers on Risk-Based Exploratory Testing.
• Contract testing with Pact — led adoption across the company, decoupling team release cadences from end-to-end coordination.
• Agentic testing with Claude Code — recently leading adoption to help teams ship faster with stronger confidence.
• API/microservice acceptance automation in Java with Serenity BDD, on a DDD foundation, leveraging MockServer/WireMock.
• E2E automation in Playwright + TypeScript.
• Performance testing with NeoLoad and Locust (Python).
• Pipeline evolution toward Continuous Deployment — build, deployment, fast-feedback gates.
• Hiring manager — technical and behavioural interviews, onboarding, team operations.
• Coaching on Kanban, Lead Time, code quality for microservices in Java/JS/TS, and functional programming.