Job description
Head of QA – Cloud-Native Platform
Permanent | No Sponsorship Option
Remote now, Hybrid Cambridge in the future 2-3 days
£80,000-£95,000 + benefits
We’re looking for an experienced QA Lead to shape and own the quality strategy for a next-generation cloud-native platform. This is a high-impact role where you’ll establish the frameworks, processes, and guardrails that ensure complex, mission-critical software is robust, secure, and scalable.
What you’ll do:
You’ll be at the heart of a growing technology team, setting the quality bar for a greenfield platform with global impact. Expect autonomy, influence, and the chance to define how quality is embedded into cutting-edge software development.
If you’re a QA leader who thrives on building scalable quality systems and wants your work to make a measurable difference, we’d love to hear from you.
Permanent | No Sponsorship Option
Remote now, Hybrid Cambridge in the future 2-3 days
£80,000-£95,000 + benefits
We’re looking for an experienced QA Lead to shape and own the quality strategy for a next-generation cloud-native platform. This is a high-impact role where you’ll establish the frameworks, processes, and guardrails that ensure complex, mission-critical software is robust, secure, and scalable.
What you’ll do:
- Work directly with the CTO to define and drive the QA strategy across the organisation, embedding quality at every stage of development.
- Act as the release gatekeeper, ensuring only production-ready software is delivered.
- Design, implement, and maintain automated and manual testing frameworks (integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance).
- Integrate QA practices into CI/CD pipelines and champion test automation and shift-left testing.
- Collaborate with engineering, product, and DevOps to create resilient, scalable solutions.
- Establish and track meaningful quality metrics, using data to drive continuous improvement.
- Stay ahead of trends in QA tooling, automation, and AI-driven quality approaches.
- This isn't a people management role, more of a technical leadership/direction.
- 7+ years’ experience in software testing/QA, including 2+ years in a leadership role.
- Proven success designing and implementing QA strategies for complex systems.
- Strong knowledge of test automation frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Playwright, Cypress, PyTest).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD workflows (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- Hands-on experience with both manual and automated testing practices.
- Familiarity with Git, issue tracking (Jira, TestRail), and performance/load testing tools (JMeter, Locust, k6).
- Good grasp of modern cloud platforms (Azure, AWS) and security-conscious testing practices.
You’ll be at the heart of a growing technology team, setting the quality bar for a greenfield platform with global impact. Expect autonomy, influence, and the chance to define how quality is embedded into cutting-edge software development.
If you’re a QA leader who thrives on building scalable quality systems and wants your work to make a measurable difference, we’d love to hear from you.