Lead QA Engineer

The opportunity: Were looking for a Lead QA Engineer to be the technical authority on complex accounts. This is a hands-on technical leadership role youll architect automation frameworks, solve the hard problems, and set the technical direction for QA on your engagements, as well as being an active member of the QA community.

Youre the person the team turns to when things get complicated. Youve built automation from the ground up, you understand the trade-offs, and you know how to design solutions that scale. You lead through expertise raising the bar technically and helping others grow through mentorship and demonstration.

Youre also an innovator. Youre actively using AI tools to accelerate your work and youre thinking about whats next whether thats self-healing tests, smarter automation, or new approaches to quality. You dont just follow best practice; you help shape it.

And beyond the technical, youre a confident communicator who can hold your own with senior client stakeholders explaining approaches, trade-offs, and recommendations to influence decisions at a project level.

What you ll be doing:

• Be the technical lead for QA on complex engagements owning test strategy and the automation approach
• Architect, build, and evolve automation frameworks that others can rely on and contribute to
• Own and solve the hard technical problems test architecture, flaky tests, CI/CD integration, environment issues
• Set the technical direction for QA on your accounts tooling, approach, and structure
• Drive shift-left practices, embedding quality into requirements, design, and development
• Design and execute test strategies across UI, functional, integration, API, accessibility and regression testing
• Mentor and elevate QA engineers through hands-on collaboration and knowledge sharing
• Innovate with AI using modern tools to work smarter and exploring whats next for QA
• Communicate technical recommendations and trade-offs to clients and internal teams
• Participate in client-facing forums demos, triage, release calls, and technical discussions
• Contribute to a specialism and share knowledge across the wider QA community

What we want from you:

• A clear track record in automation architecture and technical problem-solving
• Solid experience testing in complex, transactional environments
• Proficient in Playwright and TypeScript
• Youve designed frameworks from scratch not just written tests, but built the foundations
• Comfortable working across the full stack Web apps, Native Apps, APIs, backends, logs, data
• Hands-on experience with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Windsurf) and associated best practices.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and how testing fits into modern delivery
• Experience working within agile scrum environments on complex, multi-stream deliveries
• Confident communicating technical concepts to clients, developers, and stakeholders
• A genuine continuous learner curious, experimental, always evolving
• Pragmatic and delivery-focused, but motivated by a good technical challenge

If you know some of this even better:

• Experience building AI-powered testing capabilities
• A QA specialism youre passionate about
• Experience working across distributed teams
• Contributions to tooling, frameworks, or knowledge sharing beyond your immediate team

Disclaimer : This job posting has been aggregated from external source. Role details, content, and availability are subject to change. Applicants are advised to confirm the latest information directly on the company website before applying.