Lead Quality Engineer

Waracle is looking for a Lead Quality Engineer for an exciting new role joining our world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation. We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations. This is a Hybrid role working from our London office 2 days a week. Are you passionate about guiding quality, fostering collaborative tech environments, and shaping how engineering teams succeed together? As a Lead QA at Waracle, you will play a pivotal leadership role, shaping test strategies across multiple squads, establishing automation architectures, and championing observability and non-functional requirements. Operating at a strategic level, you’ll mentor engineers, build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, and influence the adoption of forward-thinking testing practices (such as AI-assisted testing) across our entire QA practice. Key aspects of the role include: - Squad Leadership & Strategy: Partnering with cross-functional squads to establish overarching test strategies, facilitate risk workshops, and ensure consistency across platforms. - Quality & Automation Architecture: Defining squad-level automation approaches and embedding robust quality gates within CI/CD pipelines to elevate software standards. - NFR & Observability Championing: Defining comprehensive strategies for performance, security, and accessibility, ensuring systems are inherently testable and debuggable in production. - Delivery & Team Wellbeing: Leading QA workstreams with accountability for quality outcomes, metrics, and supporting the ongoing growth and wellbeing of your team. - Strategic & Commercial Influence: Applying commercial awareness to prioritise testing efforts, advising stakeholders on trade-offs, and driving continuous innovation through emerging practices. Research shows that underrepresented groups tend to only apply for roles that they believe they meet 100% of the criteria for. At Waracle, we want to buck that trend! We hire for passion, potential and mindset as much as credentials. If you think you'd be incredible in the role, then apply - even if you don't think you tick every box.