Lead QA Engineer

3 weeks ago


London Area, United Kingdom Initi8 Recruitment Full time

Lead QA Engineer


If you love to be hands on and drive the QA Philosophy across a business - this is for you This team have a big focus on Automation.


The Job


As a lead QA engineer you will be a core part of the engineering function for a scaling business, delivering both manual and automated testing across a number of projects and products.


The Lead QA engineer is responsible for hands on testing, driving a quality assurance mindset throughout the engineering teams and managing a small team of 4 QA engineers.


As the Lead QA engineer you will work extensively with AWS conducting API tests and using Playwright for end-to-end testing. You will interact heavily with SQL and NoSQL databases and helping this fast-moving business move from (mainly) manual testing to an automated environment.


You will work closely with development teams ensuring that QA is not an afterthought and help the business bake in processes and ways of working to ensure clean, high-quality code across all of their platforms.


You will oversee a team of up to 4 QA engineers, you play a huge part in their development and making sure they are growing with you and the wider business.


About You


You will be a seasoned lead QA, who has managed some people successfully in the past. You will be technically strong as an automated & manual tester working with AWS , Typescript, Playwright, Cucumber, GIT (or similar). You must be a great communicator and happy to work in a business that is growing /is transitioning out of start up phase (you must be able to deal with ambiguity).

You must be technically curious and enjoy working with other people.


About the company


This is a scale up business with offices across UK, EU, US, middle east, China and India. They employ 1000 people and are looking to grow their technical teams significantly during 2024.They work in the multi-billion- dollar data and insight industry, supplying the financial services industry.


The money


£90,000 plus 10% bonus + 30 days + great benefits


The location


London -


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