Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Role: Lead QA Engineer
Salary: £80,000 basic
Package: £103,200
Industry: Financial Services
Working: Hybrid 2 days onsite
Wedo is working with a software powerhouse, that builds enterprise-grade software solutions that are told to tier 1 and tier 2 insurers globally. Their software and enterprise products leverage SaaS, Cloud, Data Management, Analytics as well as Machine Learning and AI and is built with Angular front end, with C# .NET Core Microservices hosted on Azure..
They are now looking for a Lead QA Engineer who’s experience in managing SaaS solutions hosted in the Cloud.
This is a SaaS Cloud project using Infra as code to develop a hosted solution that wraps on Azure. Therefore, we need someone who has excellent knowledge and understanding of SaaS and how to leverage services in the cloud.
The test effort is low level API, component and integration testing. Previous hands-on experience in API testing and applying test pyramid techniques to a complex system is a must. Hands on in lower levels (unit testing) not required, but experience in knowing how to apply testing at that level to mitigate risk will be needed.
Experience of enterprise software testing - complex systems, integration testing, non-functional testing around disaster recovery, resilience, failover
Minimum - hands on experience in at least 1 OOP language, and 1 scripting language. Hands on should equate to building test solutions, maintaining build/test pipelines at the code level.
Leadership experience
We need someone who can come in with confidence and authority to be able to win over the team and drive forward QA improvements as you'll operate as the Sole QA in the team.
Needs to be able to coach/mentor developers to deliver the QA strategy for the project - this will require a level of hands on knowledge relevant to the tech stack to ensure authenticity
You will operate as the sole Lead QA Engineer for this team, however, be part of a larger QE community of practice of 60+ QE folk.
You will coach, and mentor 3 other QA Engineers who are part of another product family.
Interview process:
First stage Interview with Engineering Manager - 30 minutes
Final in person interview based in Cambridge - up to 2 hours.
Commitment to diversifying their talent:
Our client can provide single sponsorship if you already reside in the UK.
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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