Freetrade

Staff QA Engineer

Freetrade

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

TypeScript

About the role

  • 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

  • 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
  • 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
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Soft Skills
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