Drive quality outcomes across multiple product engineering teams through automation, improving consistency of confidence, risk awareness and release decision-making.
Build and scale mobile automation for our two React Native apps, delivering a maintainable suite from scratch.
Define mobile quality signals and coverage across iOS and Android, prioritising high-risk user journeys and keeping regression lean and valuable.
Lead system-level risk thinking, shaping lean test strategies and ensuring mitigations are owned and implemented by teams.
Set clear quality standards and scalable validation patterns that teams can adopt to improve consistency and reduce gaps.
Scale shift-left practices across teams by influencing discovery and design for testability and raising the quality of earlier checks.
Own automation health for critical journeys across teams, improving reliability, reducing flake and strengthening long-term maintainability.
Curate and evolve cross-team regression coverage, keeping it risk-based, efficient and aligned to platform priorities.
Lead the response to critical quality risks and incidents, driving containment, shared learning and prevention of repeat issues.
Act as a multiplier for Quality Engineering capability by coaching QEs, raising technical judgement and driving sustainable improvements.

Requirements

Proven experience delivering and maintaining stable UI and API automation, ideally using Playwright with JavaScript.
Demonstrated success delivering and maintaining a mobile automation suite from scratch.
Experience testing mobile apps built with React Native and automating across iOS and Android, ideally using an AI-first approach.
Experience designing, evolving and setting standards for automation frameworks and patterns, with a focus on maintainability and reliability.
Experience working in complex, large-scale systems, with the ability to anticipate risk and drive quality outcomes across multiple teams.
Confident working with data and databases (e.g. MySQL), using queries to support debugging, investigations and test confidence.
Proven ability to lead epic and system-level risk assessment and define lean test strategies across layers (unit, component, API and end-to-end).
Comfortable operating with ambiguity, taking ownership of complex problems and landing high-impact improvements with minimal supervision.
Clear and credible communicator, able to align Engineering and Product on risk, quality expectations and confident release decisions.
Demonstrated leadership through collaboration and mentorship, raising capability in Mid-level and Associate Quality Engineers through coaching and feedback.

Benefits

A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more!
32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas
Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary
Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks
Private Dental Insurance with Bupa
Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows
Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay
5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life!
Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching)
All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you
Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success
Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc)
Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year
Dog friendly offices!

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Hard Skills & Tools

UI automationAPI automationmobile automationPlaywrightJavaScriptReact NativeiOS testingAndroid testingautomation frameworksMySQL

Soft Skills

risk assessmentproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipcollaborationmentorshipinfluenceownershipadaptabilitycoaching