All BR-DGE Builders Receive The Following Benefits
* Flexible and remote working
* Remote working allowance
* 33 days holiday including public holidays
* Your birthday as a day off
* Family healthcare
* Life insurance
* Employee assistance programme
* A culture that champions rapid career progression
* Investment in your learning and development
* Regular team events & socials
About The Role
As a QA Lead at BR-DGE, you will be responsible for defining and implementing the quality assurance strategy across BR-DGE's payment orchestration platform. You will lead a team of QA engineers, collaborate closely with Engineering Managers, Product Owners and Engineers to ensure robust testing processes are integrated throughout the SDLC. The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented leader with experience in driving quality across software engineering & product delivery and a deep understanding of both manual and automated testing strategies.
What You’ll Be Doing
* Ownership of QA function that is accountable for ensuring the quality of the BR-DGE product
* Lead and mentor a team of QA engineers to deliver best practices in quality engineering across the engineering function
* Define and implement QA strategy to drive delivery of test plans, and test cases for new and existing products
* Oversee all aspects of quality assurance, including functional, integration, regression, performance, and security testing
* Provide external UAT testing functionality for BR-DGE customers to validate integrations
* Collaborate with Product, Development, Platform and Compliance teams to ensure quality is embedded early and throughout the development cycle
* Establish and monitor observability tooling to track quality trends and drive continuous improvement
* Implement and maintain automated functional and non functional testing frameworks for API, UI, and backend services
* Work with Platform and Engineering to ensure quality validation is integrated with CI/CD pipelines
* Implement and manage frameworks for managing test data
* Establish exploratory testing patterns
* Implement testing strategies that align with ensuring BR-DGE maintains compliance with industry regulations and standards (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC 2, ISO 27001)
* Support and contribute to incident reviews to identify learnings and improvements from issues in the QA space
Location
* Remote or Hybrid; our office is based in central Edinburgh, just a 5-minute walk from Haymarket station, and whilst being local is an advantage, it is not essential.
What We’re Looking For
* Exceptional understanding of software testing methodologies, tools, and processes and experience in implementing these in a fast pace of delivery environment
* Excellent communication, leadership, and organisational abilities
* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
* Hands-on experience with automated testing tools (e.g., Gatling, Selenium, Cypress, Postman, JUnit, Cucumber etc.)
* Hands-on experience with performance testing tooling for both API and UI integrations
* Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, Github Actions)
* Experience with API testing and tools like Swagger and Postman
* Familiarity with containerisation and microservices architecture
* Familiarity with Java, Spring Boot and Javascript technologies
What Would Be Great To Have
* Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
* Knowledge of compliance standards relevant to payments industry (e.g., PCI-DSS, SOC2)
What We Offer
* Salary up to £85k per annum (dependent on experience)
* Remote working allowance
* 33 days holiday including public holidays
* Birthday off
* Flexible and remote working
* Family healthcare
* Life insurance
* Employee assistance programme
* A culture that champions rapid career progression
* Investment in your learning and development
* Regular team events & socials
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