Collinson Group - Automation Lead - Software Quality Assurance

Description :

- Define and uphold the standards for test quality across engineering squads, ensuring consistency and confidence in our releases.

- Oversee the work of our Automation QAs/SDeTs, and manual testers.

- Write high quality integration and end-to-end tests across our software portfolio.

- Partner with engineers, product managers, and delivery leads to embed quality thinking from day one, and not as an after-thought.

- Design and oversee test strategies that combine automation, exploratory testing, and regression coverage.

- Drive the implementation and evolution of automated testing frameworks, ensuring integration into our CI/CD pipelines.

- Own the structure and health of test suites and regression packs, helping teams keep them lean, relevant, and valuable.

- Support squads in front-end, API, and end-to-end testing, using tools like Playwright, Cypress, and other modern frameworks.

- Facilitate and promote BDD and 3-amigos sessions, helping clarify requirements and prevent misunderstandings before they happen.

- Help engineers understand and own quality; coaching without gatekeeping, advising without blocking.

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure cross-squad functionality and integration is properly tested.

- Get involved in the testing cycle, helping to investigate issues, write tests, support on manual QAing, and signing-off changes

Knowledge, skills and experience required :

- Strong background in quality assurance across automated and manual testing.

- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks (e.g. Cypress, Playright), and API testing tools (e.g. Postman, RestAssured).

- Confident writing automated tests in Typescript.

- Deep understanding of software development workflows, and how to embed quality within them.

- You're comfortable performing and organising performance testing with tools such as K6, JMeter.

- Experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and driving pipeline quality.

- Comfortable facilitating and contributing to BDD-style collaboration and 3-amigos sessions.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills you're as comfortable pairing with an engineer as you are working with a product manager.

- Inquisitive, pragmatic, and curious.

- A mindset that priorities impact, reliability, and learning over perfectionism or the process for its own sake