Salary: £65,000 - 75,000 per year Requirements: 5 years in QA, with proven experience as a Test Lead or Senior QA. Strong Salesforce testing experience (Lightning, flows, validation rules, integrations) highly advantageous. Experience testing CRM platforms such as Salesforce, Dynamics, Halo, HubSpot, Zoho, or similar. Hands-on automation experience with Playwright (UI API). Strong understanding of REST APIs, integration patterns, and SaaS/web application architecture. Skilled in JIRA and Xray, including test management, traceability, and reporting. Familiarity with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps. Excellent communication and stakeholder management. Highly organised with a pragmatic balance between delivery speed and quality. Able to drive alignment across engineering, product, and business teams. Confident making informed quality decisions and managing complex stakeholder expectations. Responsibilities: Define and deliver the overall QA strategy, aligning test planning, coverage, automation, and release governance. Build scalable QA processes that support rapid internal development while maintaining strong SaaS-quality standards. Lead QA across Salesforce releases including Apex, Lightning Web Components, flows, validation rules, and integrations. Own the transition to Xray, creating a standardised and traceable test repository with full requirement coverage. Lead JIRA workflows, defect triage, test cycles, and structured stakeholder reporting. Oversee the design and expansion of a Playwright automation framework across UI and API layers. Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure rapid, reliable regression coverage. Act as a quality advocate across the engineering team, embedding best practices and continuous improvement. Work closely with Product Owners to define clear and meaningful Definition of Done criteria. Mentor engineers and testers on modern QA practices, testability, and effective testing techniques. Manage stakeholder expectations and make firm Go/No-Go recommendations when required. Technologies: Apex API Azure CI/CD CRM DevOps GitHub HubSpot Support JIRA Lightning Web Components Playwright REST Salesforce Web UX UI Design Cloud More: Were searching for an experienced Software Test Lead to shape and lead the QA function for a fast-growing internal development team within our leading FTSE 100 business. In this role, we offer a competitive salary of circa £70,000 plus a bonus and car allowance, along with 25 days holiday (increasing with service), private healthcare, life assurance, and a pension. The position allows for mostly remote working with very occasional onsite visits, providing a flexible and supportive work environment. last updated 11 week of 2026