Cox Automotive Europe
Lead Quality Engineer
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🚀 Lead Quality Engineer
đź“Ť Leeds / Manchester / Bruntingthorpe (Hybrid)
🏢 Cox Automotive Europe – Enterprise Technology
🌟 About the Role
We’re looking for a Lead Quality Engineer to shape and lead quality engineering across a major transformation programme within our Manheim Vehicle Services (MVS) platform. This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll guide teams through the evolution from a legacy .NET monolith to a modern, cloud-native AWS architecture—while redefining how quality works in an AI-assisted development world.
You’ll combine hands-on engineering expertise, strategic thinking, and people leadership to ensure we build software that is reliable, secure, and built to last.
💡 What You’ll Be Doing
🔹 Lead & Grow the QE Function
Lead, coach, and develop a team of Test Engineers and Analysts Set the vision and standards for quality engineering Act as a champion for quality across engineering and product
🔹 Own Quality in an AI-Driven Engineering Environment
Define quality guardrails for AI-generated and AI-assisted code Evolve practices for testing, validation, and review Shape how we maintain confidence in increasingly automated delivery
🔹 Drive Strategy & Delivery
Own and deliver the QA strategy and roadmap Define approaches across: Functional and exploratory testing Performance, security, and resilience Lead automation strategy and tooling decisions Provide clear, risk-based input into release decisions
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🔹 Modernise Quality Engineering
Work across both legacy and modern platforms Embed BDD and spec-driven development practices Drive measurable improvements via metrics and KPIs
🛠️ Our Tech Landscape
You’ll operate across a modern, evolving stack:
Cloud: AWS Backend: .NET / .NET Core Frontend: React Containers: Docker, EKS, ECS Data: Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB Messaging: Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge CI/CD: GitHub Actions Testing: Playwright, Cypress, Postman, K6
✅ What We’re Looking For
Essential Experience
Strong leadership experience in Quality Engineering / QA Proven success delivering QA strategies with measurable outcomes Deep knowledge of: Agile, CI/CD, modern SDLC Test automation at scale Hands-on experience with: Modern and legacy systems API and performance testing Cloud environments (AWS preferred) Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
Nice to Have
Experience working with AI-assisted or agentic development Background in large-scale transformation or migration programmes Familiarity with Docker, Terraform, observability tooling Data testing and quality experience
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🌱 How You’ll Work
Value-driven: Focused on outcomes, not activity Pragmatic: Able to balance speed, risk, and quality Empathetic leader: Supporting teams through change Collaborative: Partnering across engineering, product, and architecture
🎯 Why Join Us?
Play a key role in a large-scale digital transformation Help define quality engineering in an AI-enabled future Work with modern cloud technologies and practices Shape the direction of quality across a complex, high-volume platform Lead and grow a team in a supportive, forward-thinking environment
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If you’re passionate about building quality into modern software delivery and want to lead through one of the most exciting engineering transformations in the industry, we’d love to hear from you.
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