Quality Assurance Engineer

Mindera

Quality Assurance Engineer focusing on automated testing strategies for a leading retailer's complex systems. Leading a small team of QA engineers for quality assurance in multiple delivery teams.

Posted 6/22/2026contractLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and implement the **end-to-end testing strategy** across the Automated Warehouse programme.
Ensure effective testing coverage across **multiple systems, integrations, and interdependent teams**.
Establish and maintain testing standards, governance, and best practices across the programme.
Provide leadership and direction to **3–4 offshore QA engineers**, ensuring delivery of high-quality testing outputs.
Coordinate testing activities across multiple delivery teams to ensure alignment with programme timelines.
Act as the **central point of accountability for testing quality** within the Move programme.
Drive the **automation-first testing strategy** across the Move portfolio.
Identify opportunities to **replace manual testing with automated approaches** to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
Work with engineering teams to embed **automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows**.
Work closely with **engineering, product, programme, and delivery teams** to ensure testing is integrated into delivery plans.
Manage testing dependencies across the programme to minimise risk and avoid delivery bottlenecks.
Provide clear reporting on **testing progress, risks, and quality metrics** to programme stakeholders.
Champion **modern QA practices**, tooling, and processes.
Introduce improvements that enhance **testing efficiency, coverage, and speed of delivery**.
Promote a **quality-first mindset** across the Move programme.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Extensive experience in **QA Engineering, Test Management, or Quality Engineering leadership roles**.
Proven experience designing and implementing **testing strategies across complex programmes** involving multiple systems and teams.
Strong experience with **test automation frameworks and automation strategy**.
Experience leading or coordinating **offshore QA teams**.
Experience working in **large-scale transformation or technology programmes**.
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across **engineering, product, and programme teams**.
Experience integrating **automated testing into CI/CD pipelines**.
Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive rates
Working with a leading multi-national retailer

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Hard Skills & Tools

end-to-end testing strategytest automation frameworksautomated testingCI/CD pipelinestesting standardsquality metricstesting coveragetesting efficiencytesting governancequality engineering

Soft Skills

leadershipstakeholder managementcommunicationcoordinationaccountabilityproblem-solvingteam collaborationquality-first mindsetdirectionreporting