QA Test Lead

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QA Test Lead

Key Responsibilities:

· Define and uphold the standards for test quality across engineering squads, ensuring

consistency and confidence in our releases.

· Oversee the work of our Automation QAs/SDeTs, and manual testers.

· Write high quality integration and end-to-end tests across our software portfolio.

· Partner with engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to embed quality thinking from

day one, and not as an after-thought.

· Design and oversee test strategies that combine automation, exploratory testing, and

regression coverage.

· Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks, ensuring integration

into our CI/CD pipelines.

· Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, helping teams keep them

lean, relevant, and valuable.

· Support squads in front-end, API, and end-to-end testing, using tools like Playwright,

Cypress, and other modern frameworks.

· Facilitate and promote BDD and 3-amigos sessions, helping clarify requirements and prevent

misunderstandings before they happen.

· Help engineers understand and own quality; coaching without gatekeeping, advising without

blocking.

· Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and

integration is properly tested.

· Get involved in the testing cycle, helping to investigate issues, write tests, support on manual

QAing, and signing-off changes.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

· Strong background in quality assurance across automated and manual testing.

· Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Playright), and API

testing tools (e.g. Postman, RestAssured).

· Confident writing automated tests in Typescript.

· Deep understanding of software development workflows, and how to embed quality within

them.

· You’re comfortable performing and organising performance testing with tools such as K6,

JMeter.

· Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and driving pipeline quality.

· Comfortable facilitating and contributing to BDD-style collaboration and 3-amigos sessions.

· Excellent communication and collaboration skills – you're as comfortable pairing with an

engineer as you are working with a product manager.

· Inquisitive, pragmatic, and curious.

· A mindset that priorities impact, reliability, and learning over perfectionism or the process for

its own sake.