Lead QA Engineer
Motorway
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Owning of the QA strategy & community for Motorway.
- Ensuring implementation of the strategy - working closely with the QA Engineers & Tech Leads to ensure quality is embedded in each team.
- Create an QA education program to develop our QA Engineers and the wider engineering team.
- Collaborating with Engineering leaders on overall Engineering initiatives to ensure that QA is considered as a first class citizen.
- Splitting time between people management, strategy and individual contribution.
- Supporting the Quality team with their day-to-day where needed.
- Line management of multiple Quality Engineers - mentoring and coaching them to further their careers within tech.
- Collaborating with developers to have them contribute to Quality/testing.
- Demonstrating to squads and stakeholders the benefits of testing.
- You are an experienced QA Engineer ready to help build the Quality discipline at Motorway.
- You believe that quality is everyone’s responsibility – you are a domain expert and want to share that knowledge with all engineers.
- You embrace servant leadership principles.
- You view team success as your number one goal, establishing the context, purpose and value of work to direct team focus on output that matters
- You believe in delivering high quality software, rapidly, while at a sustainable pace.
- You have experience at quality coaching high performing agile engineering teams with a proven history of delivery.
- You foster an environment of curiosity for your team, encouraging innovation and advocating setbacks as a key part of the learning journey
- You have led and coached QA engineers to be better every day.
- You are decisive and use good judgement to focus your attention on the most impactful solutions
- Experience of building and testing software in an agile continuous integration and deployment environment.
- Experience in functional/non-functional testing, test architecture, performance testing.
- Experience creating and implementing test automation frameworks.
- Knowledge of modern development practices, such as CI/CD and cloud based technology.
- Knowledge of JavaScript and/or Typescript.
- A competitive salary
- Annual learning budget - you can choose how you like to learn and find the best learning experiences to support your progression.
- BUPA health insurance
- Discounted dental through BUPA
- Discounted gym membership through BUPA
- On-Hand volunteering membership and one paid volunteering day per year
- Hybrid working from home (approximately 2 days in the office a week)
- Pension scheme
- Motorway car leasing scheme - lease a zero-emissions electric vehicle at a significant discount
- Enhanced parental leave
- Workplace nursery scheme
- Regular social events
- Cycle to work scheme