About the Role
We are looking for a Senior Quality Engineering Lead to help build an enterprise-wide quality assurance platform for a leading financial services organization. This is not a role focused on testing individual applications. Instead, you will help design and deliver a scalable, reusable QA capability that serves the whole organization.
Working closely with the Director of QA, you will shape testing standards, frameworks and tools across unit, integration, front-end and platform testing. A key part of the role is managing external delivery partners and making sure their work fits the organization’s target architecture and long-term technology direction.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise QA Platform
- Help design, build and evolve an enterprise QA platform that gives consistent, scalable quality coverage across the technology estate
- Set standards and best practices for unit and integration testing across development teams
- Lead front-end test automation strategy and execution using tools such as Playwright, Cucumber and Selenium
- Drive platform-level testing across APIs, databases, file ingestion, scalability and performance
Vendor & Delivery Management
- Manage relationships with external testing and delivery partners, holding them accountable for quality, timelines and outcomes
- Make sure vendor solutions align with the organization’s target architecture and standards, rather than the vendor’s preferred approach
- Challenge external partners with confidence and constructive input when proposals or deliverables don’t meet architectural or quality expectations
- Act as the onshore technical lead, directing and coordinating offshore delivery teams
Collaboration & Leadership
- Partner with engineering, architecture and product teams to build quality into the delivery lifecycle
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship on test automation and quality engineering practices
- Report on quality metrics, risks and platform maturity to QA leadership
What You’ll Bring
- Significant experience in quality engineering or test automation, including building QA frameworks or platforms at enterprise scale
- Hands-on expertise with front-end automation tools such as Playwright, Cucumber and/or Selenium
- Strong experience with API, database, data/file ingestion and performance testing
- A solid understanding of unit and integration testing practices and how they fit into CI/CD pipelines
- Proven experience managing vendors and external partners, including holding them to agreed architecture and quality standards
- Experience leading in an onshore/offshore delivery model
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence both internal teams and external partners
Preferred
- Experience in financial services or insurance
- Experience setting up quality engineering capabilities from scratch or transforming existing QA functions
Why Join Us
This is a chance to shape how quality is delivered across an entire enterprise. You’ll have real ownership over the strategy, tools and partnerships behind a modern QA platform, with the backing of a leadership team committed to building it the right way.
