Quality Assurance Engineer

VirtueTech Recruitment Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Benefits

Job summary

VirtueTech Recruitment Group is seeking a hands-on Lead QA to shape a brand-new digital wealth platform. You will lead quality engineering, drive test strategy, automation, and AI-assisted testing within a cloud-native web & mobile product.

London-based hybrid role (3 days in the office near Bank). You will mentor QA engineers and define automation frameworks using Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Python, TypeScript and C# to ensure resilient software ready for release.

Qualifications

• Hands-on QA engineering with cloud-native web and mobile platforms.
• Experience implementing test automation and quality strategies.
• Ability to lead and mentor a growing QA team.

Responsibilities

• Define and implement test automation strategies.
• Lead QA across web, mobile, and API testing.
• Drive shift-left practices and CI/CD quality gates.
• Mentor engineers and establish testing standards.
• Collaborate with product, DevOps, and architecture.

Skills

Quality engineering

Manual testing

Automated testing

Test automation

Leadership

Mentoring

CI/CD

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

Python

TypeScript

C#

SQL

AI-assisted testing

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

Python

TypeScript

C#

SQL

Job description

Lead QA wanted to shape a brand-new digital wealth platform from scratch, working across a major transformation and cloud-native web & mobile product.

Backed by one of the largestnames in the Asset Management space, this FinTech was created 4 years ago, and, whilst having the stability and backing of a major firm, build their own technology. Whilst their current product has been running for 4 years, the reason this hire is critical, is the firm are about to embark and build a brand-new product from scratch and are currently hiring a Lead QA engineer for the Engineering Team.

As the Lead tester, you will act as a hands-on technical leader within the team, helping shape and deliver the organisation's quality and testing strategy. You will play a key role in ensuring quality is built into the software delivery lifecycle, from requirements and technical design through to release, using modern testing practices including test automation, API and integration testing, shift-left testing, CI/CD quality gates, and AI-assisted testing tools. Working closely with engineering, product, DevOps and architecture teams, you will ensure applications are thoroughly tested, resilient, and ready for release.

You will champion quality engineering best practices and test standardisation, driving automation and continuous improvement across the technology function. You will take ownership of complex technical testing challenges, leading the implementation and scaling of automation frameworks, reusable test utilities and automated quality checks using technologies such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Python, TypeScript and C#. You will also contribute to the growth of the wider QA team through technical mentorship, peer reviews, knowledge sharing and the development of testing standards, documentation and processes, helping to establish a robust and future-proof QA capability.

Salary and Benefits:

This role is paying up to £80,000 + Bonus, Benefits

The role is a hybrid role, with 3 days per week in the office. Based near Bank station.

Responsibilities of the Engineer:

• You have a strong understanding of modern quality engineering and software testing practices, including how to build quality into the development lifecycle.
• Experienced in manual and automated testing across web, mobile and API-based applications.
• You have worked on complex systems and understand how to test them for functionality, integration, performance, resilience and reliability.
• Articulate what shift-left testing, automation and quality engineering mean to you, and how these approaches should be applied effectively.
• Experience defining and implementing test automation strategies, building automation frameworks and increasing reliable automated coverage.
• You have experience providing technical leadership and mentoring to QA engineers, raising testing standards and promoting best engineering practices.
• You retain hands-on engineering skills across some or all of our core technical stack: Playwright / Cypress / Selenium / Postman / Python / TypeScript / C# / SQL / CI/CD.
• You have an interest in using AI-assisted testing and coding tools to improve test creation, automation maintenance, test-data generation and defect analysis.