Quality Assurance Engineer

Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: contract

Description

We are seeking an experienced QAE Engineer / Senior Test Manager to join the Move Programme team, playing a key role in shaping and delivering the testing strategy across our Automated Warehouse programme.

This role will focus on defining and implementing a robust end-to-end testing strategy across a complex ecosystem with multiple interdependent systems and teams. The successful candidate will ensure quality across programme delivery while driving improvements in our testing maturity.

A key part of the role will be leading the transition from manual testing toward a scalable automated testing approach across the wider Move portfolio. You will also manage and guide a small team of 3–4 offshore QA engineers, ensuring alignment with programme priorities and quality standards.

Please note: this is an initial six month contract that sits outside IR35. The role requires you to work onsite in Paddington, London, 3 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

Testing Strategy & Governance

• Define and implement the end-to-end testing strategy across the Automated Warehouse programme.
• Ensure effective testing coverage across multiple systems, integrations, and interdependent teams.
• Establish and maintain testing standards, governance, and best practices across the programme.

Quality Assurance Leadership

• Provide leadership and direction to 3–4 offshore QA engineers, ensuring delivery of high-quality testing outputs.
• Coordinate testing activities across multiple delivery teams to ensure alignment with programme timelines.
• Act as the central point of accountability for testing quality within the Move programme.

Automation Strategy

• Drive the automation-first testing strategy across the Move portfolio.
• Identify opportunities to replace manual testing with automated approaches to improve efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
• Work with engineering teams to embed automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and development workflows.

Programme Collaboration

• Work closely with engineering, product, programme, and delivery teams to ensure testing is integrated into delivery plans.
• Manage testing dependencies across the programme to minimise risk and avoid delivery bottlenecks.
• Provide clear reporting on testing progress, risks, and quality metrics to programme stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement

• Champion modern QA practices, tooling, and processes.
• Introduce improvements that enhance testing efficiency, coverage, and speed of delivery.
• Promote a quality-first mindset across the Move programme.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in QA Engineering, Test Management, or Quality Engineering leadership roles.

• Proven experience designing and implementing testing strategies across complex programmes involving multiple systems and teams.
• Strong experience with test automation frameworks and automation strategy.
• Experience leading or coordinating offshore QA teams.
• Experience working in large-scale transformation or technology programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to work across engineering, product, and programme teams.
• Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

Benefits

• Competitive rates
• Working with a leading multi-national retailer