Lead QA Engineer

Role: Lead QA Engineer - Automation

Work location: Telford, UK

Job type: Full Time

Responsibilities

• Develop reliable automated tests for APIs, UI - web and mobile, integrations, and core business logic.
• Enhance and maintain automation frameworks so they remain clean, stable, and easy for others to extend.
• Introduce improvements that reduce flakiness, improve execution speed, and support future scaling.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts, and product owners to understand functional and non-functional requirements.
• Convert requirements into clear test conditions, edge cases, and data needs.
• Ensure automation covers critical paths and high-risk scenarios.
• Run automated and manual tests where needed; support developers in verifying fixes.
• Analyse failures, identify patterns, and drive root-cause discussions with engineering teams.
• Provide clear, actionable feedback through test reports and quality dashboards.
• Integrate automated suites into CI/CD pipelines and ensure they deliver fast, trusted feedback.
• Help evolve quality gates so teams catch issues earlier in the development life cycle.
• Partner with DevOps and developers to improve test environment reliability.
• Guide engineers on how to write better tests, adopt automation standards, and use tools effectively.
• Run quick learning sessions, pair-program, and share reusable patterns that uplift overall team capability.
• Help new team members understand our testing approach and automation ecosystem.
• Identify bottlenecks in testing processes and propose practical changes.
• Keep exploring modern automation techniques, tools, and testing strategies-and bring back relevant improvements.
• Raise quality concerns early and constructively, helping teams make smarter decisions.

Qualification & Technical Skills:

Required Qualifications - bachelor's degree, specialized training, or equivalent work experience required.

Minimum 12+ years of hands-on experience in Test Automation (No Test Manager or Test Lead roles)

Minimum 3 large Scale Consulting exercise in any two of the following

• Test Maturity Assessment experience
• Automation Strategy and ROI Assessment
• Non Functional Test Assessment

Minimum 7+ years of experience in Automation Testing

• Must have experience of developing Automation Framework independently, Hybrid and BDD
• Implemented Service Virtualization
• Developed and implemented API Automation
• Data Migration Automation experience
• Must have experience of Micro Services test automation

Minimum 2+ years of experience as Performance Engineer

• Hands on experience with various APM tools such as HPD, Wiley, App Dynamics, SPLUNK, etc.
• Experience establishing Performance Planning Strategy that outlines Current Production Workload distribution & Performance Requirements and Test/Production Environment Requirements and Performance Optimization results
• Must have experience with performance diagnostics, performance architecture design, performance tuning, performance monitoring, capacity planning, and/or software development in a n-tier environment

Digital Experience

• Must have experience of Automating Mobile, native and desktop apps.
• Must have experience of Automating Cloud applications and Cloud testing.
• Experience of setting up Test Labs
• Exposure to AR/VR and Metaverse testing is good to have.
• Exposure to Block Chain Testing Good to have.
• Must have exposure of SRE Testing

DevOps

• Must have experience of implementing continuous testing.
• Experienced in configuration of CI/CD tools for Continuous testing.
• DORA Metrics knowledge

Tool and Frameworks exposure

• Must have hands on experience of more than one tools across Testing life cycle (Test management, Estimation, Planning, Design, execution, reporting etc.)
• Must have experience of building large scale Quality metrics dashboards.
• Exposure to dashboard tools like Grafana etc is good to have.
• Expertise in automation tools like Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Cucumber, Postman, Restassured etc.
• Expertise in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps pipelines etc.
• Expertise in performance testing tools like JMeter, Gatling, LoadRunner etc.
• Working knowledge of security testing tools like SonarQube, OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Prowler, Kali Linux, Fortify, Veracode, Teneble.io, Jfrog Xray etc.

Languages

• Java, JavaScript, Python (Must have), C#, JCL (Good to have)

Advanced Skill Set

• Must have Exposure to Data & Analytics (Predictive & Prescriptive)
• Must Have Experience of applying AI/ML Solution to Quality Engineering
• Must Have Exposure to NLP

Soft Skills

• Must have experience of presenting solution, approach and demos to external customers.
• Good command over English and good orator
• Good Attitude for Research and Development