VirtueTech Recruitment Group
Quality Assurance Tester
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Lead Automation QA Engineer
Lead Automation QA Engineer within a Digital Wealth Management house to work on a brand new, web & mobile platform they are building from scratch.
As the Lead Automation QA Engineer, you will act as a hands-on technical leader within the QA team, helping shape and deliver the organisation's quality and automation 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.
⚡️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 Automation Quality Assurance Engineer, you will champion quality engineering best practices and test standardisation, driving automation and continuous improvement across the technology function.
💻Playwright / Cypress / Selenium / Postman / Python / TypeScript / C# / SQL / CI/CD
💰Up to £80k + Bonus, Benefits
🏢3 days per week in office
🚂Liverpool Street / Bank / Moorgate
🔋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.
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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.
If you are interested please reply with your latest CV or send to ross@virtuetech.io
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