Senior Tester / Test Lead - Quality Engineering
Join a major digital innovation firm delivering enterprise transformation programs across modern engineering environments. This role is suited to a senior quality engineering professional who can assess, shape, and uplift QA capability while driving modern automation and testing practices across large-scale delivery teams.
- Lead quality engineering strategy and QA transformation initiatives across enterprise applications
- Drive automation-first testing practices across .NET and modern JavaScript environments
- Partner with engineering, DevOps, and business stakeholders to improve quality, delivery, and testing maturity
The Role
You'll be responsible for assessing current testing capability across applications and helping define a future-state Quality Engineering framework. This includes reviewing automation coverage, UAT processes, tooling, QA maturity, and CI/CD integration, while establishing scalable standards and frameworks that engineering teams can adopt long term.
You'll work closely with developers, DevOps engineers, business stakeholders, and senior client teams to drive a shift-left testing culture and modernise testing practices across the software delivery lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess current-state testing capability across unit, integration, end-to-end, and manual testing
- Identify gaps in test coverage, tooling, QA processes, and team capability
- Design scalable Quality Engineering standards and automation strategies
- Define testing frameworks, conventions, KPIs, and quality metrics
- Evaluate and improve UAT processes, workflows, and business engagement models
- Integrate continuous testing approaches within CI/CD pipelines
- Contribute to QA transformation initiatives and uplift testing maturity across teams
- Partner with technical and business stakeholders on strategic quality initiatives
- Support executive-level reporting and technical deep-dive sessions
Requirements
- 8+ years experience in Quality Engineering, Test Architecture, or QA leadership
- Strong experience designing test strategies across the full testing pyramid
- Hands-on experience with .NET testing frameworks including xUnit, NUnit, MSTest, or SpecFlow/Reqnroll
- Strong experience with automation tools including Selenium, Playwright, or Cypress
- Experience working across React / JavaScript testing environments
- Strong understanding of CI/CD integration and shift-left testing practices
- Experience with test management and quality tooling such as Azure DevOps Test Plans, TestRail, SonarQube, Coverlet, or similar
- Ability to assess and uplift QA maturity across enterprise environments
- Strong stakeholder engagement, documentation, and consulting capability
Nice to Have
- Experience with AI-assisted test generation tools
- Performance testing experience using JMeter, k6, or NBomber
- Accessibility testing experience using axe, WAVE, or Pa11y
- Exposure to BDD / ATDD approaches
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing consulting environment focused on modern engineering, emerging technologies, and large-scale transformation delivery across enterprise clients in the region.