Quality Assurance Lead

Health Partners; Kemp Town Estate; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading occupational health provider is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Lead in Kemp Town Estate, UK. The ideal candidate will lead QA testers while driving automation adoption. Successful applicants will showcase strong expertise in both manual and automated testing, have excellent collaboration skills, and the ability to influence project outcomes. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and various employee benefits including flexible working arrangements and a contributory pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Pension scheme up to 6%

Life assurance

25 days annual leave

Birthday off

Discounted gym membership

Cycle to work scheme

Health cashback plan

Qualifications

• Experience in software quality assurance across multiple projects.
• Ability to lead and mentor QA teams.
• Hands-on experience with automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software QA testers.
• Drive the adoption of automation within the testing team.
• Collaborate with Product Engineering to integrate quality practices.

Skills

Software quality assurance

Team leadership

Automation frameworks

Collaboration

SQL

Agile methodologies

CI/CD practices

Selenium

Tools

TFS

Jira

Cucumber

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of software quality assurance testers fostering a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Drive the move to automation within the team.
• Drive the adoption of test automation within your team, increasing coverage and efficiency while maintaining testing rigor.
• Play an instrumental role as an individual contributor, participating in test planning execution and complex problem-solving alongside your team.
• Collaborate with fellow QA Lead(s) to define and refine comprehensive testing strategies covering functional, performance, security, and accessibility testing.
• Partner with Product Engineering and Delivery teams to integrate quality practices throughout the development lifecycle.
• Own test planning and execution for your team, ensuring thorough coverage and timely delivery.
• Champion quality metrics and reporting, providing visibility into product health and testing effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in software quality assurance across multiple projects and environments.
• Proven track record leading or mentoring QA teams with demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams.
• Strong expertise in both manual and automated testing with hands‑on experience in modern automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress or similar).
• Experience designing and implementing test strategies for complex large-scale software systems.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and experience integrating automated testing into delivery pipelines.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with ability to influence and build relationships across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Pragmatic problem‑solver who balances quality with delivery timelines and business priorities.
• Experience with Test Cases, SQL, Quality Assurance, Agile, TFS, Jira, Software Testing, Test Automation, Cucumber, QA/QC, SDLC, Selenium.

Bonus

• Experience in healthcare / regulated industries.
• AI and/or contract testing.
• Working overseas is not permitted; all applicants must ensure they are able to legally work and reside in the UK during standard working hours.

Employment Details

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Company Overview

Health Partners is one of the UKs leading providers of occupational health and wellbeing solutions we work with organisations across a wide range of industries to support the physical and mental health of their employees.

With a strong focus on innovation and excellence Health Partners combines clinical expertise with a personal compassionate approach. Our multidisciplinary team of healthcare professionals including occupational health advisors physicians physiotherapists and counsellors delivers tailored evidence-based solutions designed to meet the unique needs of our clients and their workforce.

We pride ourselves on fostering long-term partnerships built on trust professionalism and results. Whether its through workplace health assessments proactive wellbeing initiatives or mental health support Health Partners is dedicated to making a real difference.

At the heart of Health Partners is a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. We believe in investing in our people and providing opportunities for growth ensuring that our employees feel valued and inspired to deliver their best. By joining Health Partners youll become part of a dynamic team thats passionate about driving positive change in the workplace and beyond.

If youre ready to make a meaningful impact in the field of health and wellbeing wed love to hear from you. Together we can build healthier futures.

Health Partners are extremely proud to support the needs of our employees and as such understands everyone has individual work and home life responsibilities. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements for this role should this be a requirement for you.

We aim to become one of the most inspiring companies to work for and to achieve this ambition we need the best talent to come and work for us. We look for candidates with the right skills and values to join us and selection is based on a fair and equal process. Were proud to be committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all backgrounds.

Diversity and Inclusion forms an integral part of everything that we do bringing together the best talent helping people to realise their full potential by being yourself at work and delivering an outstanding service to everyone regardless of difference.

Benefits

• Competitive annual salary dependent on qualifications and experience.
• Contributory pension scheme up to 6%.
• Life assurance.
• Starting on 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays increasing with length of service.
• Have a day off for your Birthday (non-contractual benefit).
• Discounted gym membership.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Health cashback plan.