At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead and scale test engineering teams, promoting automation-first practices and modern frameworks.
- Company: Join a forward-thinking company focused on quality engineering and innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, health benefits, generous holidays, and hybrid work options.
- Other info: Dynamic environment with opportunities for career growth and development.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by advancing quality engineering and shaping testing practices.
- Qualifications: Proven leadership in technical teams and expertise in automation and testing frameworks.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Responsibilities
- Lead and scale multiple test engineering teams across projects, encouraging a culture of automation-first and shift-left testing practices.
- Own and advance quality engineering practices for a defined set of projects, leading hands-on adoption of modern frameworks including Playwright and Cypress.
- Architect and oversee the development of enterprise-level testing tools and platforms to improve organisational quality engineering capabilities.
- Establish and govern test automation standards, ensuring consistent OOP implementations across all testing frameworks.
- Guide the implementation of comprehensive CI/CD testing pipelines using Git Hub Actions, enabling automated production deployments.
- Manage AWS cloud testing infrastructure strategy, optimising cost and performance for large-scale test execution.
- Partner with engineering leadership to influence product architecture decisions that support testability and quality goals.
- Develop and track important quality KPIs, providing executive-level reporting on testing effectiveness and release readiness.
- Collaborate with product management and development leadership to align quality engineering programs with goals and delivery timelines.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated leadership experience managing technical teams.
- Leadership mindset focused on shift-left testing practices, promoting early testing integration in the development lifecycle.
- Automation-first approach with proven ability to ship releases to production using fully automated processes.
- Experience in creating enterprise-level tools and frameworks to elevate quality engineering practices to the next level.
- Proven track record of developing and executing effective QA metrics to drive quality improvements.
- Background in software testing, including expertise in test automation and performance testing.
- Hands‑on coding experience using Python and Java Script programming with in-depth knowledge of Object‑Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts.
- Extensive experience with modern testing frameworks and tools, including Playwright and Cypress for end‑to‑end testing.
- Proven expertise in creating comprehensive test pipelines using Git Hub Actions for continuous integration and deployment.
- Hands‑on experience with AWS services and cloud-based testing infrastructure.
- Strong familiarity with Agile methodologies and continuous integration/delivery (CI/CD) processes.
- Experience with CI/CD tools (e. g., Jenkins, Git Lab) and integrating automated tests within CI pipelines.
Benefits: Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards package and includes medical, dental, family leave, life and disability insurance, a generous pension, and 25+ paid holidays per year.
Eligible for annual bonuses and, for sales positions, commissions on applicable plans.
Hybrid office policy – employees hired for in‑person roles are expected to work on site a certain number of days per week following company policy.
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We think you need these skills to ace Manager, Test Engineering in London
Leadership Experience
Test Automation
Shift-Left Testing Practices
Modern Testing Frameworks
Playwright
Cypress
CI/CD Pipelines