CareerPlan

QA Lead

London, England, United KingdomFull-time2026-11-05 → 2026-11-10

Core

Line-manage QA Engineers across multiple teams and champion an automation-first policy, including owning the AI and agentic test strategy for a smart-grid platform.

Role type

Senior QA Lead (Engineering Management)

Builds

Smart-grid platform for residential EV charging

Domain

Cleantech / Energy / Software

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

QA leadership, test automation (API/backend), CI/CD tooling, BDD, quality metrics design, AI-assisted testing strategy, test frameworks (Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber), bug tracking tools

Preferred skills

Kotlin, mobile test automation, contract testing, performance testing, hardware-in-the-loop testing

Technologies

Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Cucumber, Jenkins, TeamCity, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Jira, TestRail, Zephyr, qTest, PractiTest

Responsibilities

Line-manage QA Engineers embedded across multiple teams, align quality standards and tooling with Heads of Engineering, evaluate and govern AI-assisted testing and autonomous test agents, design and report quality metrics programmes, embed QA earlier in the requirements/design process

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with management responsibilities