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Freetrade

Staff QA Engineer

Freetrade

Staff QA Engineer at Freetrade, driving quality strategy for web and mobile software products. Collaborating with Test Automation engineers to ensure reliability and effectiveness in product delivery.

Posted 4/14/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
TypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define and drive a cohesive quality strategy across web and mobile, aligned with engineering and business goals
  • Own quality outcomes across web and mobile, including reliability, defect rates, and release confidence
  • Mentor and support our Test Automation engineers, drive alignment
  • Provide technical leadership on quality across teams, guiding standards and best practices
  • Drive a shift-left approach to quality, influencing design and development practices to prevent defects early
  • Own quality within CI/CD pipelines, improving feedback loops, reliability, and developer experience
  • Define pragmatic testing strategies, balancing speed, coverage, and long-term maintainability
  • Identify and implement modern tooling and approaches, including AI-assisted testing, to improve efficiency and effectiveness

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Proven experience operating at Staff level (or equivalent), driving technical strategy across multiple teams
  • Strong background in test automation and quality engineering, including end-to-end testing, API testing and test strategy design.
  • Hands-on experience with modern tooling (e.g. TypeScript, Playwright, Appium and equivalents)
  • Experience improving CI/CD test infrastructure and integrating automated testing into pipelines
  • Strong understanding of testing strategies and the testing pyramid
  • Experience leading cross-team initiatives without direct line management
  • Strong communicator, able to influence engineers, Tech Leads, and stakeholders
  • Pragmatic and outcome-focused:
  • Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Comfortable leading technical discussions and guiding engineers through ambiguity
  • Experienced in providing team-wide technical leadership without formal management responsibilities
  • Knowledge of code quality, system security, and modern software development lifecycle best practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • We believe in the power of in-person collaboration to build a strong culture, but we know "life happens." If you have caregiving or personal responsibilities that require extra flexibility, let’s talk about it.

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Hard Skills & Tools
test automationquality engineeringend-to-end testingAPI testingtest strategy designCI/CDtesting strategiestesting pyramidcode qualitysystem security
Soft Skills
technical leadershipmentoringcommunicationinfluencingpragmaticoutcome-focusedleading technical discussionsguiding through ambiguitycross-team collaborationsupporting engineers