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Location: Hybrid – work in our London office a minimum of 2x/wk

Lead Product Quality Analyst - Driving Excellence in Life Sciences Automation

At Automata, we are revolutionizing life sciences through automation, freeing scientists from manual, repetitive tasks so they can focus on groundbreaking discoveries. Our technology bridges robotics, AI, and software to create the next-generation lab automation platform, unlocking efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

Salary & Location
Level: 4
Salary band: £65,000-£75,000
Bonus: 8% performance-based, discretionary
Location: Hybrid – work in our London office a minimum of 2x/wk

Your Mission: Own Quality Strategy and Execution
As Lead Product Quality Analyst, you’ll be hands-on and strategic—responsible for designing and executing technical QA solutions, mentoring teammates, and influencing quality across the product lifecycle.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Technical Quality Leadership (30%)
• Define and own Automata’s technical Product QA strategy across hardware, software, and automation systems.
• Serve as the organization’s technical authority on product quality, championing end-to-end testing practices and mentoring colleagues across Product, Engineering, and Design.
• Partner with Engineering Leads, Product Managers, Customer Success, Deployment, and DevOps to optimize development and release processes, embedding quality into every stage of the lifecycle.
• Set and enforce release readiness criteria, driving go/no-go quality decisions.
• Mentor team members and share best practices, without formal line management.

• End-to-End Product Testing (25%)
• Architect and execute complex test suites for new features and existing functionality.
• Drive the design, implementation, and scaling of automated testing frameworks to increase efficiency and coverage across functional, integration, regression, performance, reliability, resilience, failover, and safety validation.
• Ensure releases are robust and validated against demanding lab environments; test against variability in lab configurations, instruments, and workflows.

• Test Reporting & Technical Insights (10%)
• Develop automated, real-time reporting systems highlighting risks and reliability metrics.
• Provide data-driven insights to inform engineering, product, and release decisions.

• Process Optimization & Continuous Improvement (15%)
• Refine QA processes to increase efficiency and accuracy.
• Lead adoption of advanced automation tools and methodologies.
• Embed quality gates, rollback testing, and automated compliance checks into CI/CD pipelines.

• Tooling & Automation Development (10%)
• Build and maintain internal testing tools; integrate automation frameworks into CI/CD pipelines.

• Hardware & Lab Workcell Oversight (10%)
• Maintain and evolve physical test environments that simulate real-world lab conditions.
• Ensure hardware QA systems are reliable and scalable.

What We’re Looking For

• Extensive QA experience across integrated hardware-software systems, including robotic automation, IoT, and distributed cloud/edge architectures.
• Proven ability to ensure system quality at scale with focus on data integrity, synchronization, latency, resilience, and reliability in production-like environments.
• Strong background in performance, stress, and reliability testing, plus test data management, workflow simulation, and reproducible test environments.
• Familiarity with regulated environments (e.g., GxP, ISO, FDA) and ability to design QA processes that meet compliance.
• Expertise in automated testing frameworks, CI/CD integration, and scalable test infrastructure design.
• Proven technical leadership, setting strategy, influencing teams, and mentoring peers.
• Collaborative mindset, able to translate field learnings into improved QA coverage.
• Analytical, structured problem-solver who thrives on data-driven challenges.

• Bonus Points
• Expertise in lab instrumentation and automation workflows or life sciences.
• Background in software development or test tooling design.

• Why Automata?
• Be the technical authority for QA in a company at the forefront of lab automation.
• Work hands-on with cutting-edge robotics, software, and AI.
• Shape product direction, engineering processes, and QA culture.
• Make a global impact by enabling scientists worldwide to accelerate research and healthcare breakthroughs.

Ready to Take the Lead in QA?

If you’re excited about owning technical quality strategy, building future-ready frameworks, and ensuring reliability at scale, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the future of lab automation.

UK Team Benefits

• Vitality Health Insurance
• Private healthcare
• Eye Care
• Salary Sacrifice - EV
• Salary Sacrifice - Bike & Tech
• Wellbeing & Support
• Wellbeing & Development Allowance
• Spill & Employee Assistance Programme
• Additional Leave
• Pension Scheme
• Group Life & Critical Illness cover
• Birthday Leave

We are an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Discrimination of any kind based on race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status is strictly prohibited.

Seniority level: Mid-Senior level

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Quality Assurance

Industries: Manufacturing