Staff QA Engineer – Quality Strategy & Programme Lead

Reward Gateway; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

40 days annual holiday

Wellbeing allowance £400/year

Private medical insurance

Books/podcasts/dev‑growth allowance

Contributory pension

Employee discounts across 1200+ brands

Job summary

Reward Gateway is seeking a Staff QA Engineer to join the QA COE in London. This senior IC will shape quality strategy, drive automation standards, and govern large programmes with test governance accountability while maintaining hands‑on quality leadership.

You will partner with Heads of Engineering, squads, and product managers to guarantee robust testing, scalable QA practices, and strong release readiness across the organisation.

Qualifications

• > Demonstrable Quality Engineering / QA experience, including proven experience at Staff or Lead level.
• > Track record of leading test strategy for large, cross‑team programmes.
• > Deep technical expertise in test automation frameworks and standards.

Responsibilities

• > Quality Engineering – Standards, automation & practices: define DoR, improve test pyramid, lead test strategy reviews, own automation strategy, drive API testing framework standardisation, contribute to QA Community of Practice, quarterly efficiency audits, AI QE roadmap exploration.
• > Test Management: own end‑to‑end test strategy for programmes, establish quality gates, provide QA sign‑off authority, coordinate cross‑squad testing, present programme quality status, manage defect triage, lead RCA for production incidents.
• > Stakeholder Engagement: partner with engineering/product, participate in release retros, support 3 Amigos sessions, build relationships within QA team.

Skills

QA Leadership

Test Automation

Cypress

Selenium

Playwright

JMeter

PHPUnit (Symfony)

Python testing

CI/CD

API testing

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Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Cypress

Selenium

Playwright

JMeter

Symfony/PHPUnit

Python testing frameworks

CI/CD pipelines

API testing frameworks

Job description

Reward Gateway is seeking a Staff QA Engineer to join the QA COE in London. This senior IC will shape quality strategy, drive automation standards, and govern large programmes with test governance accountability while maintaining hands‑on quality leadership.

You will partner with Heads of Engineering, squads, and product managers to guarantee robust testing, scalable QA practices, and strong release readiness across the organisation.