QA Engineering Lead SaaS in Surrey

Do you have expertise with QA Testing and Automation combined with strong leadership and management skills? You could be progressing your career in a senior, impactful role at a long established global FinTech with a reputation for technical innovation and excellence.

As a QA Engineering Lead you'll join a newly formed team working on a Greenfield AI driven product to form the test strategy and introduce testing processes, policies and a "shift-left" culture. You'll drive quality engineering strategy across a complex software platform, bringing together QA resources into a unified test function for this new team / product. Collaborating closely with engineering leadership, you will define and evolve testing strategy, frameworks, standards, and processes, ensuring robust functional and non-functional test coverage across the platform.

You'll provide technical leadership in test automation, exploratory testing and quality engineering practices, while remaining hands‑on in the design and development of scalable, production‑grade test frameworks and tooling. As a trusted authority on software quality, you will mentor and develop engineers, identify opportunities to improve testing effectiveness and champion continuous improvement across the organisation. This is an opportunity to shape the future of quality engineering within a technology‑driven business where quality, automation and engineering excellence are fundamental to success.

Location / WFH: There's a flexible work from home hybrid model, you'll join colleagues in the Reigate office twice a week for team meet‑ups and stakeholder meetings with the other three days work from home (please note you must be within a one hour commute of Reigate).

About you:

• You have experience of defining QA strategy both from the ground‑up as well as continuously improving existing processes and strategy.
• You have hands on experience building complex test automation solutions for complex SaaS based solutions.
• You have experience of driving QA and test first approaches into complex delivery programmes.
• You have experience of leading and growing a QA team for a project.
• You have experience with C# test automation frameworks at all levels (unit, integration, API/system).
• You have a good understanding of the "shift-left" testing approach.
• You are collaborative and pragmatic with strong stakeholder communication skills.

What's in it for you:

• As a QA Engineering Lead you'll receive a competitive package: Up to £130k salary plus bonus.
• Hybrid working (3 days a week work from home).
• Enhanced parental leave.
• 25 days holiday (plus buy days and your birthday off).
• Pension (up to 10% contribution).
• Health Care and Life Assurance.
• Training and career development.
• Social events and a range of other perks.