Quality Assurance Lead

MoneyPlus; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

MoneyPlus is building its QA capability. This role shapes strategy, creates automated coverage and brings clear evidence into release decisions. Initially hands-on, the role will later mentor and raise standards across the team.

You will work with Engineering Leaders to ensure testability and risk visibility influence planning and delivery, with auditable quality decisions in high-stakes environments.

Qualifications

• Experience shaping a QA strategy, roadmap or operating approach.
• Designing or shaping automated testing across front-end and API layers.
• Evidence-based release decisions and handling delivery pressure.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the testing strategy, roadmap and risk-based coverage.
• Create and maintain automated coverage across frontend and API layers.
• Bring evidence and quality findings into release decisions; challenge unsafe assumptions.
• Recruitment onboarding of QA team and evolve from hands-on to mentoring.
• Collaborate with engineering to bake testability and quality into planning.

Skills

QA strategy

Hands-on automation

Release judgement

High-stakes QA

Job description

Build quality from the ground up and make release decisions easier to defend with evidence.

MoneyPlus is building its QA capability. This role exists to make quality an integral part of engineering delivery: shaping the strategy, creating meaningful automated coverage and bringing clear evidence into release decisions. Early on, this is a hands‑on role; as capability grows, the focus expands into mentoring, standards and team development.

What you’ll be doing

• Define and evolve the testing strategy, roadmap, framework choices and approach to risk-based coverage.
• Create and maintain automated coverage across front‑end and API layers, particularly while the QA function is being established.
• Bring coverage evidence, known risks and quality findings into release decisions; challenge unsafe assumptions and escalated material concerns.
• Support the recruitment and onboarding of the planned QA team, then shift progressively from sole hands‑on ownership towards mentoring, standards and capability building.
• Work with Engineering Leads and delivery colleagues so testability, quality risks and appropriate controls are considered during planning rather than immediately before release.
• Explain quality evidence, risk and release implications clearly to engineering leadership, senior stakeholders and Compliance where relevant.

What we’re looking for

• QA strategy and function ownership: Evidence of setting a QA strategy, roadmap or operating approach and showing how it changed coverage, quality or delivery decisions.
• Hands‑on automated testing: Evidence of designing or materially shaping automated testing across front‑end and API layers, including clear reasoning behind framework or tooling choices.
• Release judgement: Evidence of making or materially informing release‑readiness decisions, including how incomplete coverage, defects and delivery pressure were handled.
• High‑stakes quality judgement: Evidence of producing auditable, documented quality decisions in a regulated or otherwise high‑stakes environment; MoneyPlus/FCA‑specific knowledge can be learned.

Transferable evidence is welcome. FCA‑specific experience is not required where you can show comparable judgement, auditability and quality ownership in a regulated or high‑stakes environment.

We provide First Aid for Finances, helping people move from crisis to control.

Our debt advice and solutions combine digital convenience with human care, supporting customers through some of the most challenging financial circumstances they may face.

• Opportunity to build a QA function from the ground up.
• Meaningful influence over release risk and quality standards.
• Direct visibility of quality evidence with engineering leadership and senior stakeholders.

You do not need to meet every desirable criterion to apply. MoneyPlus is committed to an inclusive recruitment process, and reasonable adjustments are available at any stage.