Quality Engineering Lead - Remote & AI-Driven Quality Leadership

Dayshape; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 38,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Development budget

33 days holiday

Sabbatical

Private healthcare

Pension scheme

Wellbeing programme

Volunteer hours

All Hands meetings

Job summary

Dayshape, a UK-based award-winning software scale-up, seeks a Quality Engineering Lead to strengthen the quality engineering leadership team. You will line-manage a group of Quality Engineers, drive better release practices, improve CI/CD, and guide teams on AI-assisted quality engineering.

In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, Platform and Principal QE to accelerate improvements, reduce bottlenecks, and ensure scalable quality across products.

Qualifications

• Established experience directly managing engineers or other technical contributors.
• A genuine commitment to people management as your primary focus.
• Experience coaching and developing people through regular 1:1s, feedback, development planning, and performance conversations.

Responsibilities

• Line manage 6-10 Quality Engineers through regular 1:1s, development conversations, appraisals, onboarding, and performance support
• Coach QEs to build confidence, judgement, stakeholder awareness, risk-based thinking, and ownership
• Monitor workload, capacity, wellbeing, and development needs, escalating risks and informing resourcing decisions
• Maintain consistent quality expectations across product teams while supporting pragmatic, risk-based approaches
• Lead cross-team improvements that streamline ways of working, increase automation, shorten feedback loops, and make release decisions safer and more repeatable
• Investigate bottlenecks, review pipelines and quality signals, and prove practical improvements before scaling them
• Help teams adopt AI responsibly in shared quality engineering workflows, including test design, automation, investigation, defect analysis, documentation, release evidence, and learning loops
• Create clarity around scalable team processes, ensuring improvements are adopted consistently rather than remaining dependent on one person or one team
• Support quality reviews, readiness conversations, and risk discussions where additional oversight is needed
• Deputise for the Quality Engineering Manager on agreed release activities, including readiness reviews, risk assessments, evidence coordination, and follow-up
• Ensure release risks have clear recommendations, owners, and actions
• Support learning from hotfixes and incidents through proportionate test reviews, defect analysis, and prevention actions
• Coordinate with Principal Quality Engineers on strategic initiatives without duplicating their technical ownership
• Ensure QEs have the clarity, time, support, and development opportunities needed to contribute to cross-team improvements

Skills

People management

Quality engineering

Automation

CI/CD

AI in QA

Stakeholder management

Job description

Dayshape, a UK-based award-winning software scale-up, seeks a Quality Engineering Lead to strengthen the quality engineering leadership team. You will line-manage a group of Quality Engineers, drive better release practices, improve CI/CD, and guide teams on AI-assisted quality engineering.

In this hands-on leadership role, you’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product, Platform and Principal QE to accelerate improvements, reduce bottlenecks, and ensure scalable quality across products.