Senior QA Lead Engineer - Automation & AI Testing

LGT Vestra LLP; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP, headquartered in London, is seeking a senior QA leader to define and drive the quality strategy across products and releases, aligned with delivery priorities. You will own test planning, automation, and AI-assisted testing, building scalable frameworks and integrating quality gates into CI/CD with DevOps collaboration.

This role requires strong leadership and communication to raise engineering and quality standards within a growing wealth management business.

Qualifications

• Define and lead QA approach, automation strategy and quality objectives for assigned products, initiatives and releases.
• Champion a risk-based, shift-left quality culture; ensure test planning starts early, and requirements, acceptance criteria and technical designs are complete, testable and traceable.
• Establish and evolve QA standards, test design practices, automation principles, quality gates and reporting, ensuring they are applied consistently.
• Provide clear recommendations on test scope, residual risk, release readiness and quality trade-offs to the QA Manager and delivery stakeholders.
• Lead the analysis of requirements, specifications and technical designs; participate in agile ceremonies.
• Produce and assure comprehensive test plans covering manual, automated, functional and non-functional testing as appropriate.
• Design, review and maintain high-quality test cases, test data and test scripts with end-to-end traceability to requirements and defects.
• Lead hands-on execution of system, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory and acceptance testing across web, mobile and API-based applications.
• Coordinate test activities across releases and dependencies; manage test environments, data and blockers with Eng and DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Lead QA activities for complex products across releases.
• Coordinate test environments and data with DevOps and engineering teams.
• Embed automated tests and quality gates into CI/CD pipelines.
• Coach QA engineers, conduct peer reviews and raise standards.
• Produce concise test status reports with coverage, progress and risk trends.

Skills

QA leadership

test planning

automation strategy

AI-assisted testing

quality metrics

stakeholder reporting

coaching QA engineers

Agile/Scrum

DevOps collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

ISTQB Advanced

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Postman

Swagger

SoapUI

Xray

TestRail

Jira

Git

Job description

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP, headquartered in London, is seeking a senior QA leader to define and drive the quality strategy across products and releases, aligned with delivery priorities. You will own test planning, automation, and AI-assisted testing, building scalable frameworks and integrating quality gates into CI/CD with DevOps collaboration.

This role requires strong leadership and communication to raise engineering and quality standards within a growing wealth management business.