Quality Engineering Lead

Job description

The Quality Engineering Lead is responsible for leading the transformation to a modern quality model, embedding quality across the software lifecycle through shift-left testing, automation, and enforceable quality standards. This role balances execution and strategy while establishing best practices, standards, and governance to support long-term growth to establish a federated quality model across delivery teams. The ideal candidate is self-driven, pragmatic, detail-oriented, and capable of building lightweight but effective QA processes in a collaborative environment. Key Responsibilities: 1. Quality Transformation & Enablement 2. Test Strategy & Oversight 3. Test Planning & Execution 4. Test Automation 5. Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement 6. Quality Governance & Standards 7. Continuous Improvement - Lead transition to quality engineering practices - Mentor developers and BAs on writing testable requirements & unit/integration test expectations - Drive adoption of developer-owned testing (unit, integration, contract testing) - Promote testability in system design and architecture - Embed quality ownership within delivery teams - Establish “definition of done” inclusive of qu...