QA Automation Lead

Role Overview

• Define and drive the QA automation strategy, improving framework quality, test coverage, and overall automation maturity
• Lead, mentor, and support a team of QA engineers, providing both technical guidance and hands-on contribution
• Design, build, and maintain scalable UI and end-to-end automation frameworks
• Improve and optimise automated test execution within CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable feedback
• Drive a risk-based testing approach, making informed decisions on test prioritisation, coverage, and trade-offs
• Shape a balanced testing strategy across UI, mobile, API/service-level, and manual testing layers
• Lead end-to-end testing efforts across mobile applications (iOS/Android) and backend services
• Evaluate where UI automation is valuable vs where API or service-level testing provides better efficiency and stability
• Manage bug tracking, triage, and failure analysis, providing clear reporting on quality metrics and risks
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and platform teams to improve testability and quality standards
• Contribute to continuous improvement of QA processes, tooling, and ways of working
• Support expansion into non-functional testing areas such as performance, load, and (longer term) security

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in QA / Test Automation, delivering automation in production environments
• Experience in a QA leadership or mentoring role, with responsibility for guiding engineers and shaping QA direction
• Proven ability to define and evolve automation strategy, not just implement individual automated tests
• Strong foundation in manual QA, including exploratory and regression testing, with sound judgment on what should and should not be automated
• Experience designing, building, or improving UI and end-to-end automation frameworks
• Experience working with modern UI automation tools (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, WebdriverIO or similar)
• Experience with mobile testing and/or automation (iOS/Android), ideally in business-critical environments
• Strong understanding of risk-based testing and how to optimise coverage, speed, and confidence
• Ability to lead a team (approx. 4 engineers) while remaining hands-on and technically credible
• Experience with API / service-level testing and a solid understanding of test pyramid principles
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with defect management, bug triage, and QA reporting
• Strong collaboration skills with engineering, product, and platform teams
• Familiarity with automation languages such as TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, or Kotlin (TypeScript preferred)
• Experience working in modern product engineering environments with evolving systems and priorities
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to operate in complex environments

Tech Stack

• Android
• Cypress
• iOS
• Java
• JavaScript
• Kotlin
• Python
• Selenium
• TypeScript

Benefits

• Be a Smart Worker
• valued, empowered, and part of a culture that celebrates integrity, excellence, and ambition.
• Join one of the highest-rated workplaces on Glassdoor and experience what it means to thrive in a truly remote-first world.