Job Description:

Lead Quality Engineer

Fully Remote | UK, Ireland & European time zones

I'm working with an innovative software company that's looking to hire an experienced Lead Quality Engineer to take ownership of quality across a complex, customer facing platform.

This is a hands-on leadership opportunity where you'll define quality standards, build scalable testing processes, and help shape the future of quality engineering within a growing product team.

The Role:

You'll be responsible for developing and evolving the overall quality strategy, ensuring software is released confidently and reliably while supporting a fast-paced engineering environment.

Working closely with developers and product teams, you'll drive automation, improve testing practices, and establish quality as a key part of the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the quality strategy and release process.
• Develop and enhance automated testing frameworks.
• Strengthen end-to-end and regression testing.
• Improve release confidence through effective quality gates.
• Turn production issues into automated regression coverage.
• Lead exploratory testing for business-critical functionality.
• Mentor and develop junior QA engineers.
• Champion best practice across quality engineering.

About You:

You'll have:

• 5+ years' experience in QA, Quality Engineering, or SDET roles.
• Proven depth in frontend quality: e2e suites (Playwright, Cypress, or similar) that catch interaction-level regressions, visual regression, and real browser verification integrated into CI/CD.
• Experience building quality gates and release processes for teams that ship continuously.
• Active use of AI tooling in your own QA work - we will ask how it has changed your practice in the last year.
• Excellent communication skills and the confidence to challenge release decisions when required.
• The ability to work independently within a fully remote environment.

Desirable Experience

• Testing complex web applications.
• Experience in highly regulated, enterprise, or business-critical software.
• Exposure to modern software delivery practices and AI-assisted development.

What's on Offer

• Fully remote working.
• Genuine ownership of the quality function.
• A key leadership position within an ambitious product business.
• The opportunity to influence engineering standards from the ground up.
• €65k up to €95k base salary

If you're passionate about building quality into software from day one and enjoy solving complex engineering challenges, I'd love to speak with you.