Lead QA Engineer

Role: Lead QA Engineer

Salary: £100,000

Total Package: £134k

Industry: Financial Services

Working Model: Hybrid (2 days onsite)

About the Company

Wedo has partnered with a forward-thinking InsurTech company hiring a strategic Lead QA Engineer to join their 60-strong QE community of practice.

Our client is building next-gen software that leverages SaaS, Cloud, Data Management, Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. This is a Greenfield SaaS platform offering you the chance to take full ownership of the test infrastructure, tooling, and services from the ground up.

About the Role

They’re looking for a strategic Lead QA Engineer to take a central role in monitoring AI/ML models in production ensuring they remain reliable and high-performing for a core B2B Enterprise SaaS product.

Core Responsibilities & Expectations:

Lead QA strategy across the product vision. The focus is evolving from deep technical testing (already well-established) to driving production readiness. You'll take ownership of areas like:

Observability tooling

Security validation

Recovery procedures

Performance & load testing

Disaster recovery planning

Be the voice of risk in the engineering organisation—assessing, articulating, and influencing decisions around testing and risk. You’ll be empowered to draw a hard line when needed.

Act as a quality evangelist across teams, including:

Coaching and mentoring QA Engineers (4–6 across 2 scrum teams)

Running workshops to promote best practices

Influencing the wider quality culture and engineering mindset

Leading non-functional test coverage improvements

Experience Needed

You consider yourself a leader first, manager second.

You’ve followed a hands-on QA career across both functional and non-functional testing.

You’re confident across the QA spectrum—this isn’t a pure performance testing role, but depth in that area is a bonus.

Experience with chaos engineering (especially Azure Chaos Studio) is highly desirable but not essential.

Exposure to AI/ML-powered products is a strong plus, given the nature of Radar Vision.

Your standout skill is your ability to influence, communicate, and defend quality with confidence.

Solid experience with CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting is essential—QEs work closely with DevOps.

You bring proven experience in Microservices and API automation at scale.

Recent hands-on experience with performance testing rounds out your skillset.

Benefits

15% bonus

10% pension

Private healthcare & critical illness cover

Free parking (5 minutes from the train station)

Structured career development pathways

Interview Process

30-minute initial chat with the QA Manager

1-hour architecture exercise

1-hour final interview with the Engineering Manager & Director of QA

Interested?

Apply via Quick Apply, connect with Jack Cole on LinkedIn with a message and your CV, or email with a brief note on why this role suits you.

Please include your desired salary, location, right to work in the UK, and available times for a call.

Good luck with your application.