Senior QA Lead - Automation, Strategy & Observability

Waracle; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Home office budget

Udemy Business

Learning budget

Cycle to Work

Gym discounts

Enhanced parental leave

Spirit of Waracle

Job summary

Waracle in London is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to guide quality across multiple squads, shaping test strategies, defining automation architectures and championing observability.

This hybrid role based at our London office 2 days a week invites hands-on leadership, mentoring engineers, and partnering with senior stakeholders to drive forward-thinking testing practices, including AI-assisted testing.

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-squad QA workstreams.
• Hands-on API test automation with PyTest, Postman CLI or REST frameworks.
• Familiar with validating API Gateways (Azure APIM, OAuth 2.0/JWT).
• Experience embedding DevSecOps and security quality gates.
• Knowledge of service virtualization and synthetic test data management.
• Strong cloud and CI/CD experience (Azure DevOps, Azure Key Vault).

Responsibilities

• Define test strategies across squads.
• Lead automation architecture and quality gates in CI/CD.
• Champion NFRs and observability.
• Mentor engineers and manage stakeholders.
• Drive innovation in testing practices.

Skills

Strategic leadership

API test automation

CI/CD familiarity

Observability

Stakeholder management

DevSecOps

Cloud environments

Service virtualization

Synthetic test data

Azure DevOps

Tools

PyTest

Postman CLI

RESTful testing

WireMock

Azure DevOps

Azure Key Vault

Azure APIM

Job description

Waracle in London is seeking a Lead QA Engineer to guide quality across multiple squads, shaping test strategies, defining automation architectures and championing observability.

This hybrid role based at our London office 2 days a week invites hands-on leadership, mentoring engineers, and partnering with senior stakeholders to drive forward-thinking testing practices, including AI-assisted testing.