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 jack.cole@wedotech.uk 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.