VirtueTech Recruitment Group
Lead QA Engineer | Wealth Management Platform | Automation, Playwright | up to £80k +Bonus, Benefits
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Lead QA Engineer | Wealth Management Platform | Automation, Playwright | up to £80k +Bonus, Benefits
A Digital Wealth Management house requires a Lead QA Engineer to work on a brand new, web & mobile platform they are building from scratch. As a business, their focus is on the personal relationship they develop with customers, underpinned by multi-channel customer reach and global investment expertise via a digital Investment Management platform. Entirely in the cloud, taking advantage of powerful commoditised offerings, the firm are building a bespoke cloud-native solution.
Backed by one of the largest names in the Asset Management space, this FinTech was created 4 years ago, and, whilst having the stability and backing of a major firm, build their own technology. Whilst their current product has been running for 4 years, the reason this hire is critical, is the firm are about to embark and build a brand-new product from scratch and are currently hiring a Lead QA engineer for the Engineering Team.
As the Lead QA Engineer, you will act as a hands-on technical leader within the QA team, helping shape and deliver the organisation's quality and testing strategy. You will play a key role in ensuring quality is built into the software delivery lifecycle, from requirements and technical design through to release, using modern testing practices including test automation, API and integration testing, shift-left testing, CI/CD quality gates, and AI-assisted testing tools. Working closely with engineering, product, DevOps and architecture teams, you will ensure applications are thoroughly tested, resilient, and ready for release.
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As the Lead QA Engineer, you will champion quality engineering best practices and test standardisation, driving automation and continuous improvement across the technology function. You will take ownership of complex technical testing challenges, leading the implementation and scaling of automation frameworks, reusable test utilities and automated quality checks using technologies such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Python, TypeScript and C#. You will also contribute to the growth of the wider QA team through technical mentorship, peer reviews, knowledge sharing and the development of testing standards, documentation and processes, helping to establish a robust and future-proof QA capability.
Salary and Benefits:
- This Lead QA Engineer role is paying up to £80,000 + Bonus, Benefits
- 📍The role is a hybrid role, with 3 days per week in the office. Based near Bank station.
Responsibilities of the Lead QA Engineer:
- You have a strong understanding of modern quality engineering and software testing practices, including how to build quality into the development lifecycle.
- Experienced in manual and automated testing across web, mobile and API-based applications.
- You have worked on complex systems and understand how to test them for functionality, integration, performance, resilience and reliability.
- Articulate what shift-left testing, automation and quality engineering mean to you, and how these approaches should be applied effectively.
- Experience defining and implementing test automation strategies, building automation frameworks and increasing reliable automated coverage.
- You have experience providing technical leadership and mentoring to QA engineers, raising testing standards and promoting best engineering practices.
- You retain hands-on engineering skills across some or all of our core technical stack: Playwright / Cypress / Selenium / Postman / Python / TypeScript / C# / SQL / CI/CD.
- You have an interest in using AI-assisted testing and coding tools to improve test creation, automation maintenance, test-data generation and defect analysis.
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If you are interested in this Lead QA Engineer role, please reply to this advert with your latest CV or send it to shabana@virtuetech.io
Lead QA Engineer | Wealth Management Platform | Automation, Playwright | up to £80k +Bonus, Benefits
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