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Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
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Lead Quality Assurance Engineer
Lead QA Engineer
We're looking for an experienced Lead QA Engineer to join a high-performing engineering team responsible for delivering a market-leading payments platform operating at significant scale. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced QA leader to shape the quality strategy across a modern cloud-based platform, ensuring robust, scalable software that supports high-volume, business-critical transactions.
This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building and evolving QA functions, defining testing strategy from the ground up, mentoring QA engineers, and working closely with both technical teams and business stakeholders to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
Salary: Up to £70,000 plus 10% bonus and a comprehensive benefits package.
The Role
As Lead QA Engineer, you'll take ownership of the overall QA strategy across multiple delivery teams, balancing technical leadership with people management and stakeholder engagement. You'll lead the QA function, helping to develop and mentor engineers while defining scalable testing approaches across application, API and data platforms. A key part of the role will involve creating and implementing test strategies from scratch, particularly around data quality and validation, whilst ensuring testing aligns with wider business objectives and customer outcomes. Although this is a leadership-focused position, you'll still possess a strong technical understanding of modern testing practices, enabling you to guide engineers, challenge technical decisions and drive continuous improvement.
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Key Responsibilities
- Define, implement and continuously evolve the overall QA and test strategy across multiple products and delivery teams.
- Lead, mentor and develop QA engineers, fostering a collaborative, quality-first culture.
- Build testing frameworks and strategies from the ground up, including robust approaches to data testing and validation.
- Work closely with Product, Engineering and business stakeholders to ensure quality is aligned with customer and commercial objectives.
- Champion quality throughout the SDLC, embedding best practices across development teams.
- Define functional, non-functional and data testing approaches across complex distributed systems.
- Establish meaningful QA metrics, reporting and quality dashboards for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Identify quality risks early and implement pragmatic solutions to improve software resilience, performance and delivery.
- Ensure test environments, tooling and processes are fit for purpose and support efficient software delivery.
- Drive continuous improvement across QA processes, automation strategy and engineering standards.
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Skills & Experience
Essential
- Proven experience leading or managing QA teams within modern software engineering environments.
- Strong background defining and implementing QA strategy across complex enterprise applications.
- Experience building testing processes and frameworks from scratch, including data testing strategies.
- Excellent understanding of test management across microservices, APIs and data-driven architectures.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence both technical teams and business leaders.
- A customer-focused mindset with the ability to balance quality, delivery and commercial priorities.
- Hands-on technical understanding of modern testing practices and automation, including experience with:
- Java (Cucumber)
- Python (Spark)
- REST APIs
- Playwright
- Good understanding of cloud-native architectures, AWS, event-driven systems and databases.
Desirable
- Experience working within payments, financial services or other high-transaction environments.
- Databricks
- Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience working with large-scale data platforms.
- Docker.
- Git and Maven.
- Jira and Confluence
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