Senior Lead QA Engineer: Automation & Scale

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group); Norwell (MA); On-site; USD 112,300 - 187,100; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive plan

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage

401(k) with company match

Job summary

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) Acadia division seeks a full-stack lead QA engineer to design and scale automation platforms for high-velocity software delivery. You will drive testing across UI, API, and data layers, collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and platform teams, and enable scalable quality at scale in distributed systems.

You will lead testing strategies, shift-left/right practices, and AI-assisted testing experiments to enhance resilience and defect detection across the SaaS

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on experience in functional UI testing, API testing, and performance testing for cloud-based or SaaS applications.
• Proven experience designing and implementing automated test frameworks for cloud-native, containerized, and microservices architectures (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS).
• Strong background in building scalable automated test suites using Playwright, Cypress, Postman, and K6.
• Experience with contract testing methodologies and frameworks (e.g., Pact, OpenAPI-driven testing).
• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10 and security concepts.
• CI/CD pipeline engineering and integrating automated testing into DevOps workflows.
• Git-based version control (GitLab, GitHub, Bitbucket).
• Java, JavaScript, and Python programming skills.
• Observability/monitoring platforms such as ELK, Splunk, Datadog for debugging and insights.
• Performance engineering and chaos testing concepts.
• Accessibility standards knowledge and AI-assisted testing exposure.
• Cloud experience, especially AWS.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end quality engineering across SaaS platforms to support roadmaps and guardrails.
• Design and implement testing strategies for UI, API, performance, and reliability.
• Validate multitenant SaaS architectures and tenancy isolation.
• Develop test data and environment management to enable automated test execution.
• Collaborate with SRE to embed observability metrics, logs, and traces in tests.
• Incorporate telemetry and real-world usage into shift-left/right testing.
• Lead GenAI/LLM-based testing experiments and transition solutions into testing ecosystem.
• Drive Shift-Left, DevTestOps, contract testing, and data validation adoption.
• Translate requirements into scalable quality strategies for multi-functional partners.
• Partner with global teams to standardize testing tools and practices.
• Participate in incident management and post-mortems for durable prevention.
• Leverage IaC and design-thinking to improve speed and test coverage.
• Stay ahead on GenAI, cloud infra, microservices, and automation tooling.

Skills

Distributed systems

Automation strategy

CI/CD

QA leadership

SaaS/cloud

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Postman

K6

Job description

LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) Acadia division seeks a full-stack lead QA engineer to design and scale automation platforms for high-velocity software delivery. You will drive testing across UI, API, and data layers, collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and platform teams, and enable scalable quality at scale in distributed systems.

You will lead testing strategies, shift-left/right practices, and AI-assisted testing experiments to enhance resilience and defect detection across the SaaS