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Do you believe that quality is everyone’s responsibility—but you’re the one who makes it happen? We’re looking for a Quality Lead to be the go-to person for software quality across our Product Development team. You’ll lead a talented group of Software Test Engineers, ensuring our products are testable, stable, and robust—because the people who rely on our software deserve nothing less.

This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll shape our testing strategy, mentor the team, and champion best practices in both manual and automated testing.

What You’ll Do

• Lead and manage a team of Software Test Engineers across multiple product squads.
• Ensure the testability, stability, and performance of production software.
• Design, implement, and review manual and automated test scenarios and cases.
• Build and maintain our test automation framework, using Playwright, Typescript, C#, and .NET.
• Perform manual, automated, functional, non-functional, and exploratory testing as needed.
• Work closely with developers to ensure quality is built into every stage of the development process.
• Collaborate with product managers and business stakeholders to define requirements, acceptance criteria, and test plans.
• Provide high-quality reporting on testing progress, coverage, and results.
• Drive continuous improvement in test processes and tools.
• Mentor and support testers, helping the team grow in technical and testing excellence.
  
  
  

• Proven experience leading and motivating a team of testers in a fast-paced product development environment.
• Strong knowledge of manual, exploratory, and full-stack automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright, Typescript, C#, .NET, and test automation frameworks.
• Advanced understanding of test-driven development (TDD) and solid experience with unit and API testing (MS Test, XUnit, Postman, RestSharp).
• Experience testing web applications, REST APIs, and databases (MS SQL and NoSQL).
• Excellent communication, organisation, and delegation skills.
• Passion for testing, attention to detail, and a continuous improvement mindset.
• (Bonus) Experience working in SaaS environments, Azure, mobile app automation (Appium), or multi-tenant high-availability solutions.
  
  
  

• A base salary of up to £55,000 - £65,000 and bonus depending on experience
• Modern town centre offices in Guildford, with opportunity for ad hoc home working
• 25 days holiday
• Contributory pension scheme
• Additional perks including; cycle to work scheme, staff discounts portal and Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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