QA Engineering Lead: Quality Strategy & Automation at Scale

Meta; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Meta is seeking an experienced QA Engineering Lead to drive product quality strategy across consumer and business products including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. The role partners with engineering and product leadership to embed quality practices at scale, guiding test planning, automation, and quality standards across diverse geographies.

The candidate will mentor QA engineers, define metrics, and lead initiatives to improve reliability, performance, and test coverage while integrating AI

Qualifications

• 6+ years in quality engineering across consumer or business software products.
• Experience leading quality strategies across multiple teams and geographic locations, including distributed and offshore teams.
• Experience with QA methodologies including test planning, test design, execution, and non-functional testing such as performance and stress testing.
• Experience implementing and maintaining test automation frameworks for mobile and web applications.
• Experience coding in Python, Java, PHP, C/C++, or an equivalent programming language.
• Experience integrating AI tools into quality workflows to improve test coverage and defect detection.
• Experience communicating quality strategy and risk assessments to technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executives.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the product quality strategy across one or more product organizations, setting direction for test planning, automation, and quality standards.
• Lead cross-functional quality programs spanning multiple products, teams, and geographic locations, driving alignment across engineering and product stakeholders.
• Establish the technical direction for test strategy on high-ambiguity, business-critical initiatives to ensure product correctness and reliability at launch.
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to design and scale automation frameworks that prevent regressions and support long-term product reliability.
• Identify systemic quality gaps and drive organization-wide adoption of improved processes, tooling, and quality-driven engineering practices.
• Define and track quality metrics that measure test effectiveness, coverage, and overall product health across the portfolio.
• Assess non-functional quality dimensions including accessibility, internationalization, localization, performance, and stress testing in partnership with specialized teams.
• Advise and influence engineering leaders and cross-functional partners on quality tradeoffs, risk mitigation, and launch readiness decisions.
• Mentor and develop quality and test engineers, sharing best practices and elevating quality standards across the organization.
• Leverage data and testing insights to inform product decisions and drive measurable improvements in quality outcomes.

Skills

Quality strategy leadership

QA methodologies

Test automation frameworks

Python

Java

C/C++

AI in QA

Stakeholder communication

Mentoring

Global collaboration

Job description

Meta is seeking an experienced QA Engineering Lead to drive product quality strategy across consumer and business products including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. The role partners with engineering and product leadership to embed quality practices at scale, guiding test planning, automation, and quality standards across diverse geographies.

The candidate will mentor QA engineers, define metrics, and lead initiatives to improve reliability, performance, and test coverage while integrating AI