Head of QA Engineering

TPXImpact Holdings Plc; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic consultancy in the UK is seeking a Head of QA Engineering to lead and build its QA department. You will develop robust, automated testing solutions and enhance client relationships to ensure quality delivery. The ideal candidate will have significant leadership experience and expertise in diverse testing frameworks. This role emphasizes aligning quality strategies with business outcomes and driving continuous improvement. The company offers comprehensive benefits, including generous leave and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

30 days holiday + bank holidays

2 volunteer days

6 months Maternity Leave

3 months Paternity Leave

Health cash plan

Personal learning and development budget

Qualifications

• Significant experience in QA engineering, with a proven track record in a leadership role.
• Deep experience across multiple testing frameworks, with the ability to switch approaches.
• Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including shift-left testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build our internal QA function ready to assure clients' technical delivery.
• Manage client relationships, ensuring their needs are met.
• Define, build and oversee the QA methodology, ensuring best practice is adhered to.

Skills

Quality Assurance Leadership

Automation Testing

Technical Mastery

Client Relationship Management

Continuous Improvement Culture

Education

Significant experience in QA engineering

Tools

Cypress

Playwright

Selenium

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Head of QA Engineering to lead and build our QA Engineering department within a dynamic consultancy. This role demands a blend of technical mastery in modern automation, innovative "Shift-Left" thinking and leadership skills to drive the development of robust, automated testing solutions for a diverse range of clients. The ideal candidate will be adept at aligning quality strategy with business outcomes, ensuring that our software is not just functional but resilient and scalable.

You’ll play a leading role in building, developing and realising a continued growth strategy for our QA offering. This includes the execution of go-to-market testing propositions and working closely alongside the software, sales and bid teams to ensure our quality assurance approach is a key differentiator in winning new revenue.

Responsibilities

• Lead and build our internal QA function ready to assure clients technical delivery.
• Manage client relationships, ensuring their needs are met, delivery quality risks are mitigated and expectations exceeded.
• Define, build and oversee the QA methodology, ensuring best practice is adhered to and adoption of modern testing techniques.
• Be accountable for maintaining high standards of software quality across all engagements through QA best practices, supported by clear quality metrics and foster a culture of continuous improvement and learning within the team and adopting a “right tool for the job” multi-framework approach.evidence-based reporting.
• Provide thought leadership, strategy, and methodology externally to clients and prospects, through blogs and events.
• Contribute subject matter expertise to bid and growth contributions, meeting with clients and working with bids writers to ensure our success.
• Define and continually evolve the client facing propositions delivered by your function, communicating the benefit and opportunity to everyone internally.
• Collaborate with other departments and stakeholders to ensure cohesive business operations.
• Maximise financial health by ensuring the maximum utilisation of teams in support of client outcomes.
• Stay aware of industry trends and advancements in QA engineering, including how to safely leverage AI in our testing cycles.

About You

• Essential: Significant experience in QA engineering, with a proven track record in a leadership role.
• Essential: Deep, hands-on experience across multiple testing frameworks, with the ability to switch approaches pragmatically (e.g. Cypress, Playwright, Selenium).
• Essential: Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including shift-left testing and embedding quality throughout the SDLC.
• Desirable: Experience working in a consultancy environment, demonstrating adaptability across clients, teams, and delivery contexts.
• Desirable: Knowledge or practical experience of applying AI-assisted tooling within the QA lifecycle.

• Technical skills

• Expert-level understanding of testing and quality automation, including when and where automation adds the most value.
• Experience setting QA strategy and standards across multiple teams or products
• Ability to influence engineering and product leaders on quality, risk, and release readiness
• Strong experience integrating testing into CI/CD pipelines, supporting fast, reliable, and repeatable releases.
• Proficiency across testing frameworks, approaches, and languages, such as Playwright (JavaScript/TypeScript), BDD/Cucumber, Selenium (Java, Python).
• Expertise in full-stack testing, covering API, regression, performance, and end-to-end automated testing strategies.
• Ability to apply and adapt QA strategy and standards pragmatically, balancing risk, coverage, and delivery speed across teams.

Behaviours

• Commitment to professional integrity and ethical standards.
• Strong leadership skills, with an emphasis on collaboration and team-building.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of engaging with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Adaptability in a fast-paced and dynamic consultancy environment.
• Passion for quality, technology and innovation, with a continuous learning mindset.

About Us

People-Powered Transformation

We\'re a purpose driven organisation, supporting organisations to build a better future for people, places and the planet. Combining vast experience in the public, private and third sectors and expertise in human-centred design, data, experience and technology, we’re creating sustainable solutions ready for an ever-evolving world.

At the heart of TPXimpact, we’re collaborative and empathetic. We’re a team of passionate people who care deeply about the work we do and the impact we have in the world. We know that change happens through people, with people and for people. That’s why we believe in people-powered transformation.

Working in close collaboration with our clients, we seek to understand their unique challenges, questioning assumptions and building in their teams the capabilities and confidence to continue learning, iterating and adapting.

Benefits Include:

• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• 2 volunteer days for causes that you are passionate about
• Maternity/paternity - 6 months Maternity Leave, 3 months Paternity Leave
• Life assurance
• Employer pension contribution of 5%
• Health cash plan
• Personal learning and development budget
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to equity in the business through a Share Incentive Plan
• Green incentive programmes including Electric Vehicle Leasing and the Cycle to Work Scheme
• Financial advice
• Health assessments

About TPXimpact - Digital Transformation

We drive fundamental change in approaches to product and service development, delivery and technology. Our agile, multidisciplinary teams use technology, design and data to deliver better results, improving outcomes for individuals, organisations and communities.

By working in the open, in partnership with our clients, we not only transform their systems and services but also build the capability of their teams, so work can continue without us in the longer term. Our focus is sustainable change, always delivered with positive impact.

We are committed to having a positive impact on the clients and the communities we serve. We actively encourage applications from all genders, ethnicities, disabled people, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and those from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

Don’t meet 100% of the criteria? We still want to hear from you. Please let us know if you require any adjustments during the recruitment process.