QE AI Lead Engineer

NTT DATA; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

NTT DATA in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior QE SDET Engineer to lead the expansion of our quality engineering assets and services. This hands-on role spans the full SDLC, not just test automation, and requires clear communication with non-technical stakeholders.

You will mentor teams in AI-driven testing, implement and evolve automation frameworks (Selenium, Cypress, Jest, PyTest), work with Langchain and OpenAI tools, and drive shift-left practices with robust quality metrics across

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a Senior QE SDET Engineer or Senior Developer.
• Breadth of experience across multiple tech-stacks including JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, or Python.
• Experience with AI tooling such as OpenAI, Langchain, RAG, and agentic workflows.
• Hands-on product building experience across the full SDLC, not limited to automation.
• Strong automation across frameworks (JUnit, Jest, PyTest, NUnit, Selenium, Cypress, WebDriver) and CI/CD.
• Mentoring and presenting to senior stakeholders including C-suite.
• Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD) and containerization (Docker/AWS).
• Knowledge of QA metrics, performance testing (Gatling/JMeter), and security/code quality tools (SonarQube, OWASP).

Responsibilities

• Lead the expansion of the quality engineering portfolio and services.
• Drive Shift-Left testing and early validation across the SDLC.
• Mentor and train the team on the latest testing tools and methodologies.
• Capture and track quality metrics to quantify value created.

Skills

Senior QE SDET

JavaScript/TypeScript

Java

C#

Python

OpenAI

Langchain

Prompt Engineering

Selenium

Cypress

Jest

JUnit

PyTest

Docker

AWS

Azure DevOps

GitLab CI/CD

Tools

JUnit

Jest

PyTest

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

WDIO

BrowserStack

Swagger

WireMock

Postman

Spring

Angular

.NET

Node

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Docker

Job description

What you'll be doing:

This is a hands on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC not just test automation and QE. You will lead the expansion of our existing portfolio of Quality Engineering assets and services. Having strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders is a must.
You will join a highly focused quality engineering team that are experts in driving a AI & agentic AI engineering led approach to driving value for our clients. You are responsible to ensure Shift-Left Testing emphasising early testing in the development lifecycle. You will have experience of multiple Automation Frameworks that support various types of testing.
You will play a key role as an AI mentor and train your team on the latest testing tools and methodologies.
You will always look for ways to drive SDLC efficiencies and to improve the quality engineering approach. You will have knowledge on capturing the value created through defining and tracking quality metrics.

What experience you'll bring:

Extensive experience as a Senior QE SDET Engineer or Senior Developer
Has breadth of experience across different tech-stacks, such as JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, C#, or Python, amongst others
Experienced in RAG Weaviate, OpenAI, Agents, MCP, Langchain, Prompt Engineering, Browser-Use, and Django
Experienced building AI Tools, Agents and Agentic workflows (LangGraph, CrwAI)
Hands-on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC - not just test automation and QE.
Experienced in building RAG system with a nice-to-have on fine-tuning LLMs
Cleaning/augmenting data
Comfortable with IAS (Infra As Code) eg. giving a high-level spec
Fully understands test automation (across platforms and functional/non-functional) and associated tech
Presentation skills - C-Suite clients and in-house
Mentoring - non-AI SDETs
Innovation - art of the possible
Experienced in Junit, Jest, PyTest, NUnit, Appium, WDIO, Selenium, Cypress, BrowserStack, Swagger, WireMock, Postman et al
Development frameworks: Spring, Angular, .NET, Node et al
CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Docker/AWS, Azure DevOps
Databases: SqlServer, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, H2
BDD: Cucumber, FitNesse, SpecFlow, RestAssured, EasyB et al
Performance: Gatling, JMeter, WebPageTest, LightHouse
Security & code quality: SonarQube, Jacoco, PiTest, OWASP, Axe et al
Hands on software test automation, ideally founded on a background as a senior Developer
Experienced in building a strategy covering all aspects of the SDLC process, development, automation, CI, and metrics
Hands on using Spring Java, Angular, Python, GitLab CI/CD, Junit, Jest, Cucumber, Bash, Gatling et al
Experienced in helping teams evolve an Agile 'Shift Left' way of working
Experience of building advanced and feature rich test automation frameworks from scratch using Object-oriented and scripted languages
Has a depth of knowledge in the Object-oriented Programming paradigm (OOP) and has practically applied the principles
Comfortable working with Git repositories and workflows on multiple tasks concurrently
Ability to manage and lead code review processes, mitigate conflicts within the team and get quality work merged in the main branch
Proactively collaborate with the Front-end development team, understand the design of the Front-end and discussing issues with the developers to better understand requirements and expectations
Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and their importance in Automation Testing process
Understanding of non-functional requirements and testing, with a focus on performance (but also accessibility, compatibility and aspects of security)

Nice to have

MCP, Django and nice-to-have Entra/Gunicorn
GitHub Actions, GitLab pipelines, Azure DevOps pipelines, Jenkins (any experience on these will be beneficial)
AWS experience
Experience with any of these tools: Cypress, Playwright, Webdriver.io (but with strong experience in Selenium)
Understanding (better experience) with Contract Testing frameworks (preferably PACT)
Experience setting up E2E testing frameworks with automation in mind, covering all the aspects of the SDLC

Who we are: At NTT DATA, you have endless opportunities to think big, act bold and take ownership. As a $30+ billion business and technology services, AI and digital infrastructure leader, we co-innovate solutions with clients and partners globally for business and societal impact. Serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100, with experts in over 70 countries, we encourage experimentation and recognize great work. Proudly a Global Top Employer, NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion annually in R&D. Make this the place where you belong, learn, and build your network. Make this the place where you grow.

what we’ll offer you:

We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.