Quality Engineer & Testing Strategy Lead

Brown & Brown UK; Borehamwood; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday

Company pension

Professional qualifications funding

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Brown & Brown UK is seeking a Quality Engineer to own quality across squads, shaping testing strategies and championing a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate with Product Owners, Tech Leads, and Engineers to ensure scalable, reliable platforms built with quality at their core.

You will lead modern testing practices, mentor engineers, and drive data-driven decisions to improve test coverage, performance, and security across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Extensive QA experience including software development.
• QA leadership within agile environments.
• Experience in cross-functional delivery teams, ideally XP practices.
• Strong understanding of evolutionary architecture and fitness functions.
• Experience with AI tooling to improve delivery speed and quality.
• Cloud certification is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead execution of comprehensive test strategies across your squad(s).
• Introduce and champion modern testing tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Define and monitor quality metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and MTTR.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align quality goals with business objectives.
• Mentor and support engineers, fostering ownership and continuous improvement.
• Lead exploratory, automation, performance, and security testing initiatives.
• Promote agile and lean principles to enhance delivery and adaptability.
• Provide clear and transparent communication on quality status and improvement plans.
• Drive continuous improvement through data insights and actionable changes.
• Support cross-functional testing including accessibility, usability, and availability.
• Ensure strong CI/CD practices and evolve testing approaches across architectures.
• Establish dashboards and reporting to visualise quality trends and performance.

Skills

QA leadership

Quality assurance

Agile delivery

Cross-functional teams

Problem solving

Tools

Automation tooling

CI/CD tools

AI tooling

Job description

Brown & Brown UK is seeking a Quality Engineer to own quality across squads, shaping testing strategies and championing a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate with Product Owners, Tech Leads, and Engineers to ensure scalable, reliable platforms built with quality at their core.

You will lead modern testing practices, mentor engineers, and drive data-driven decisions to improve test coverage, performance, and security across the software lifecycle.