Lead Test Automation Engineer: Drive Quality & Automation

Quality Ai; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

QualityAI in London seeks a Lead Test Automation Engineer to drive automation testing across functional, system, and security domains. You will lead a small team, design robust automation frameworks, and collaborate with developers and architects to continuously improve test coverage and reliability.

The role focuses on performance testing with JMeter/LoadRunner, security testing practices, and mentoring peers while contributing to recruitment and strategy discussions.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years hands-on test automation experience.
• Experience with Eggplant Functional and API testing tools (SOAP UI, Postman).
• Experience writing System, API, security, and UI tests.
• Knowledge of middleware and message queues (Kafka, IBM MQ, ACE).
• Scripting in Python or JavaScript; monitoring with Control-M.
• Security testing tools such as SonarQube, Fortify, Twistlock, Xray.

Responsibilities

• Lead functional, system, integration, end-to-end, and security testing with automation.
• Lead a small team of test automation engineers.
• Design and maintain automation test scenarios to pinpoint bottlenecks.
• Analyse test results and provide optimization recommendations.
• Collaborate with developers and architects to improve scripts.
• Contribute to performance testing using JMeter and LoadRunner.
• Participate in recruitment and performance strategy development.

Skills

Test automation

Team leadership

Automation frameworks

Scripting Python/JS

Performance testing

Security testing

CI/CD tooling

Test data management

Software architecture

Education

Degree in IT/CS

ISTQB/ISQI/ISEB Foundation

Tools

Eggplant Functional

SOAPUI

Postman

JMeter

LoadRunner

SonarQube

Fortify

Twistlock

Xray

Control-M

Kafka

IBM MQ

ACE

Job description

QualityAI in London seeks a Lead Test Automation Engineer to drive automation testing across functional, system, and security domains. You will lead a small team, design robust automation frameworks, and collaborate with developers and architects to continuously improve test coverage and reliability.

The role focuses on performance testing with JMeter/LoadRunner, security testing practices, and mentoring peers while contributing to recruitment and strategy discussions.