Lead QA Engineer

Role: Lead QA Engineer (Automation)
Salary: £70,000 - £80,000 basic
Package: £103,200
Industry: Financial Services
Working: Hybrid 2 days onsite
CEO recommendation: 88%
The full job description covers all associated skills, previous experience, and any qualifications that applicants are expected to have.
Wedo is an exclusive partner to a Global Financial Services organisation that advises three-quarters of the world’s leading insurers and are one of the world's largest providers of actuarial and insurance solutions. Their software and enterprise products leverage SaaS, Cloud, Data Management, Analytics as well as Machine Learning and AI.
They need a Technical QA Lead, who will assume a crucial leadership role overseeing the QA processes, ensuring the delivery of products that adhere to the company's stringent quality standards. You are a coach and mentor for methodologies, frameworks, and the importance of building quality as a culture. You at some point in your career have written code, and can still converse at the code base and architect layers.
As a Lead QA Engineer, you will have the following experience:
You will review existing QA process (when have been neglected for some time) and make improvements that meet the wider QA strategy.
You are confident in challenging the norm (the team are willing to embrace change) but change needs to happen and you a re responsible for making this happen.
You have deep experience supporting continuous deployment workstreams, working closely with Engineering Managers, DevOps and Software Engineers.
Experience supporting and coordinating delivery to implement continuous delivery including quality gates, process, and tooling for scalability
You are adapt in your ability to communicate, influence and take senior stakeholder on a journey when presenting technical solutions.
Experience fostering a ‘quality-first’ approach and assisting the QA Director with quality as a culture adoption.
You have strong technical knowledge of testing and automating APIs and distributed systems.
You have strong knowledge of unit, component and integration tests.
You consider the importance of Performance, Security, Disaster recovery testing
If you really want to show off, you write code in C# and can built test automation frameworks from scratch.
Benefits:
· 15% bonus
· 14% pension
· Private health
· Critical illness
· Well-structured career pathways
Interview process:
First stage Interview with Engineering Manager - 30 minutes
Technical assessment
Final in person interview based in Cambridge - up to 2 hours.
Commitment to diversifying their talent:
Flexible working – hybrid working environment steering more towards remote allowing a better work/life balance (can choose which days you go in to office)
40% of their board of directors identify at Female.
75% of the board committee chairs are diverse in: gender, ethnicity, nationality and neurologically.
Part of Bloomberg’s Gender-Equality Index for 2023
Awarded: Stonewell LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer award in 2023, Women in Governance Parity certified and Equality 100 Leader in LGBTQ+ Workplace inclusion.
Don’t feel like you hit all of the above criteria? We’d still love to hear from you! We encourage you to apply for the position and state the reasons why you feel you’d be a great fit and what experience could add real value to the role.
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