QA Lead

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise QA and testing strategy aligned to business goals and product vision
• Establish organisation-wide testing standards, frameworks, and governance models
• Ensure consistent acceptance criteria, testing approaches, and release quality thresholds
• Embed quality-by-design principles across the full product lifecycle

• Act as a strategic QA partner to product and digital leadership teams
• Collaborate on testing strategies, best practices, and release readiness governance
• Provide expert guidance, coaching, and oversight to distributed QA teams
• Drive consistent quality standards across multiple delivery streams

• Lead the design and implementation of enterprise test automation strategies
• Drive adoption of shift-left testing and continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines
• Establish automated frameworks across functional, regression, performance, security, and reliability testing

• Partner with product managers, UX designers, and engineers to embed quality from inception
• Define acceptance criteria, “definition of ready”, and “definition of done” standards
• Support agile teams with test planning, sprint reviews, and release validation

• Own release quality governance, including go/no-go decisions
• Implement risk-based testing strategies for business-critical systems
• Ensure compliance with relevant data protection and regulatory standards

• Build and lead a high-performing QA and test engineering capability
• Develop skills frameworks, training programmes, and communities of practice
• Promote a culture of shared ownership of quality across teams

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years’ experience in QA or quality engineering, including leadership roles
• Proven track record of leading QA strategy across complex, multi-team environments

• Test automation tools (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, RestAssured)
• API and integration testing
• CI/CD tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, Jenkins)
• Performance testing tools (e.g. k6, JMeter, Gatling)

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Pension and health-related benefits
• Flexible working arrangements
• Ongoing training and career development support
• Employee wellbeing and support programmes