Quality Assurance Lead
Edenred PayTech
Hybrid (Swindon/London)
At Edenred PayTech, we power the payments that move people and businesses every day. As a global emoney institution processing over €100bn annually across 30+ countries, we are the engine behind Edenred's most innovative solutions across Benefits, Fleet & Mobility, and Payments.
We are now looking for a Quality Assurance Lead who will elevate our testing capability, champion best practice, and ensure we continue delivering secure, reliable, highperforming products at scale.
Your Mission
As our Quality Assurance Lead, you will own the QA strategy endtoend. You'll define robust testing processes, drive continuous improvement, and ensure that every release meets the high standards expected of a global payments leader. You'll collaborate across engineering, product, compliance, and operations becoming the voice of quality throughout the delivery lifecycle.
This is a role for someone who thrives on curiosity, challenges assumptions, and asks the allimportant question: "How do I break this?"
What You'll Do:
Build and implement comprehensive testing processes, including full endtoend and exploratory testing.
Partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure clarity, alignment, and shared ownership of quality.
Develop and embed QA best practices across teams.
Support the definition of functional and nonfunctional testing requirements.
Maintain and optimise test environments to ensure reliability.
Produce clear, detailed test reports for stakeholders.
Take full accountability for test activities throughout the lifecycle.
Communicate testing outcomes with clarity, confidence, and impact.
What You Bring:
Essential:
Proven experience in test management within microservices and datadriven environments.
Strong background in functional and nonfunctional testing.
Handson experience with:
Leading QA teams
Test development, performance monitoring, reporting
Java (Cucumber), Python (Spark)
REST and Playwright frameworks
Knowledge of cloud technologies (AWS), APIs, eventdriven architectures, and databases.
Desirable:
AWS/Azure cloud services
Lowlatency, highthroughput systems
Largescale databases
Deployment pipelines
Jira & Confluence
Docker
Git, Maven
Who You'll Work With :
Engineering Domains - drive crossfunctional quality
Product - Ensure clear requirements and shared expectations
Service Operations - Support smooth transitions into production
Compliance (EU & UK) ensure regulatory alignment
You'll also collaborate with external partners and vendors where required.
What Success Looks Like:
Seamless integration across teams
Effective, scalable test strategies
Continuous improvement of QA processes
Clear communication of testing outcomes
Highperforming, stable test environments