Lead Quality Assurance Test Engineer

Prism Digital; Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle upon Tyne, Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Employee rewards platform

Job summary

Prism Digital is looking for a Lead QA Test Engineer to enhance quality assurance across delivery teams. This hybrid role requires working on-site in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle or Blackpool three days a week.

You'll shape how quality practices are implemented, ensuring accessibility and stability in services used by millions. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, managing stakeholders, and designing test strategies, along with using various testing tools.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in QA leadership across multiple teams.
• Strong knowledge of HTML and CSS.
• Expertise in designing and building test automation frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Ability to create and implement enterprise-scale test strategies.
• Skilled in stakeholder management and communication.

Responsibilities

• Shape the quality processes across several teams.
• Choose and implement testing tools.
• Decide on the best automation strategies.
• Mentor and coach engineers in QA practices.
• Conduct performance, stability and capacity testing.

Skills

QA leadership

HTML

CSS

Test automation frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

Stakeholder management

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

WebdriverIO

axe

Pa11y

k6

JMeter

OWASP ZAP

Job description

• Location: hybrid, 3 days a week on site in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle or Blackpool
• ****Active SC required****

Our client is a digital consultancy that builds and runs services for one of the UK's largest government departments, and they need a Lead QA Test Engineer to set the quality bar across several delivery teams. The services you'll assure are used by millions of people, so accessibility, security and stability sit at the centre of the work.

What They're Looking For (Non-Negotiables)

• QA leadership: guiding testing across more than one team
• HTML and CSS
• Test automation frameworks: designed and built by you
• CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
• Enterprise-scale test strategy: written and delivered
• Stakeholder management: reporting progress, risk and defects clearly
• Mentoring and coaching engineers

What You'll Work With

• Automated test suites running against every build
• Accessibility testing for services everyone has to be able to use
• Performance, stability and capacity testing
• Usability testing
• Traceability across tests, risks and defects
• Multi-disciplinary agile delivery teams

Nice to Haves

• Public sector digital delivery, ideally against the GDS Service Standard
• Playwright, Cypress or WebdriverIO
• Accessibility tooling: axe, Pa11y or similar
• Performance tools: k6 or JMeter
• Security testing tools: OWASP ZAP or similar

Why Join / Projects

You'll shape how quality works across several teams at once. That means choosing the tooling, deciding where automation adds the most value, and challenging processes that aren't working. The brief is to reuse and evolve what's there rather than follow a fixed playbook.

The scale gives the work weight. These are services people depend on to get support, so a missed accessibility issue or a failed release lands on a lot of people. You'll push teams to understand those risks and let them drive testing decisions.

You'll also have a platform beyond your own teams. The consultancy runs internal communities of practice, and you'll be expected to share what you build, mentor peers and help raise the standard of testing across the wider business.

Employee Benefits

• 25 days holiday
• Employee rewards and discounts platform