Lead QA Engineer

Responsibilities

Quality Strategy

• Define and implement the organisation’s quality assurance strategy and roadmap.
• Design and execute comprehensive test strategies across the software development lifecycle.
• Assess and triage the impact and scope of issues identified during testing, and report on the coverage and effectiveness of test strategies.

Test Automation

• Architect and develop scalable, maintainable automation frameworks for functional, regression and performance testing.
• Integrate automated tests and testing frameworks into CI workflows.
• Evaluate and select testing tools and technologies, and build reusable frameworks, dashboards and AI agents that make quality increasingly self-serve for product teams.

Leadership and Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with Product, Development, Operations and technical stakeholders to align quality standards with business goals.
• Provide technical guidance to QA engineers and act as a quality assurance subject matter expert across the organisation.
• Improve QA processes through automation, optimisation and emerging practices, including AI-enabled tools where they demonstrably improve quality and efficiency.

What we are looking for

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. A master’s degree is a plus.
• 6+ years of Quality Assurance experience, including 2+ years as a Senior QA Engineer, with a focus on test automation.
• Demonstrated success designing and implementing scalable test automation frameworks for complex software projects.

Technical Skills

• Experience with programming languages such as PHP, JavaScript or Go, alongside test automation tools and frameworks.
• Cloud certification and experience working in large-scale environments using AWS, Google Cloud or Azure.
• Experience with agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD or Travis CI.
• Knowledge of database technologies and SQL, along with API testing using OpenAPI, Swagger or gRPC.

Leadership and Quality Expertise

• Deep understanding of software development methodologies, quality assurance best practices and industry standards.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across teams.