24 days ago
London, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Define and lead QA approaches, automation strategies, quality objectives, standards, quality gates, and reporting for assigned products and releases.
- Lead requirements and test analysis, test planning, test-case design, test-data preparation, traceability, and execution across manual, automated, functional, non-functional, system, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing.
- Build, scale, review, and maintain automation frameworks, automated tests, and reusable test utilities.
- Embed automated tests, quality gates, and reporting into CI/CD pipelines in partnership with engineering and DevOps teams.
- Evaluate and implement AI-assisted testing tools for test generation, self-healing automation, synthetic test data, coding, and defect analysis, with appropriate review and validation.
- Coordinate test activities, environments, data, dependencies, blockers, defect triage, root-cause analysis, and fix verification.
- Provide technical leadership, coaching, peer reviews, and day-to-day guidance to QA engineers without direct line-management responsibility.
- Report on test coverage, execution progress, defects, risks, dependencies, and release recommendations, while maintaining auditable testing documentation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- At least 7 years of software quality assurance experience, including substantial hands-on manual and automated testing.
- Proven experience defining and implementing test automation strategies, building automation frameworks, and scaling reliable automated coverage.
- Hands-on experience with AI-assisted testing and coding tools for test creation, maintenance, test data, and defect triage.
- Experience leading QA activities for complex products or multiple concurrent deliveries, including test strategy, release readiness, and stakeholder reporting.
- Experience coaching QA engineers, conducting peer reviews, and improving engineering and quality standards without direct line-management responsibility.
- Advanced proficiency with test-management and defect-tracking tools such as Xray, TestRail, and Jira.
- Strong experience with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium, and API testing tools such as Postman, Swagger or SoapUI.
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Python, or C# for test automation, with the ability to review automated-test code.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, test-environment management, quality gates, SQL, database testing, and web, mobile, and API testing.
- Working experience in Agile/Scrum teams and with DevOps practices, plus strong analytical, communication, stakeholder-influencing, and decision-making skills.
- ISTQB Advanced, Test Automation Engineer, Test Manager, or comparable QA certification is desirable.
- Experience in financial services or wealth management, Tosca, Salesforce, Dynamics, performance testing, security testing, accessibility testing, or resilience testing is beneficial.
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