Expleo

Quality Engineering Practice Lead

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14 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Provide technical leadership and governance across Quality Engineering, test automation, performance testing, and Digital Assurance services.
  • Own and evolve the Quality Engineering capability strategy, roadmap, service portfolio, technical standards, reference architectures, and reusable assets.
  • Act as a senior technical authority on complex client engagements and advise on significant Quality Engineering challenges.
  • Shape client opportunities through discovery workshops, proposals, commercial solution design, executive briefings, and maturity assessments.
  • Remain hands-on and partially billable to establish new services, prove value, and support account growth.
  • Develop thought leadership through conferences, webinars, roundtables, publications, and industry engagement.
  • Lead career paths, competency frameworks, future-skills programs, coaching, mentoring, and people development across the practice.
  • Develop practical and commercially viable approaches, accelerators, and services for generative AI, machine learning, agentic AI, and AI Assurance.
  • Define approaches for testing, validating, and monitoring AI systems and foster disciplined experimentation.

Requirements

  • Significant experience in software Quality Engineering, testing, or Digital Assurance.
  • Strong technical understanding of modern test automation approaches, architectures, and frameworks.
  • Strong knowledge of performance testing and performance engineering.
  • Experience defining Quality Engineering strategies, frameworks, or technical standards.
  • Experience delivering Quality Engineering within Agile, DevOps, and CI/CD models.
  • Experience with AI Assurance, Responsible AI, AI governance, or AI/ML model validation and testing.
  • Understanding of agentic AI, autonomous software engineering approaches, generative AI, AI-enabled testing, and the risks and limitations of AI-based systems.
  • Knowledge of AI governance frameworks such as ISO/IEC 42001 or regulatory frameworks such as the EU AI Act.
  • Experience building technical accelerators, frameworks, platforms, or reusable intellectual property.
  • Experience in consultancy, professional services, technology services, or a similar client-facing environment.
  • Experience shaping solutions during pre-sales and contributing to proposals, bids, presentations, or commercial solutions.
  • Strong client-facing communication, stakeholder management, coaching, mentoring, and people-development skills.
  • Experience leading technical teams, capabilities, communities, or practices and developing capability through others.
  • Experience building or scaling an engineering or Quality Engineering practice.
  • Conference speaking, publishing, or recognized industry thought leadership is required.

Benefits

  • Collaborative working environment with clients and peers.
  • Opportunities to expand technical skills and participate in inspiring projects.
  • Access to Expleo Academy and accredited training courses.
  • Competitive company benefits.
  • Inclusive and accessible recruitment and workplace support, including reasonable adjustments for disabled employees.
  • Equal-opportunity employment with support for people across protected characteristics.

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