Lead, QA & Testing
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About the Role
TAQA Distribution is seeking a QA Lead to define and own the QA strategy, lead a team of QA engineers, and drive test automation adoption.
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Responsibilities
- Define and own the QA and testing strategy, standards and processes across digital products and platforms
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of QA engineers / testers, managing workload allocation and quality of output
- Design, implement and maintain test plans, test cases and automated test suites across functional, integration, regression and performance testing
- Drive test automation adoption and tooling (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright) to increase coverage and reduce manual effort
- Embed QA within Agile / DevOps delivery, integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
- Establish quality metrics and reporting (defect density, test coverage, escape rate) and report to stakeholders
- Collaborate with development, product and business teams so requirements are testable and quality is built in early
- Manage the defect lifecycle, root cause analysis and continuous improvement of the testing function
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field
- 6+ years in software QA / testing, including 2+ years in a QA lead / management role
- Strong expertise in test automation frameworks and tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or similar)
- Hands on experience with API testing, performance testing and CI/CD integration (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab)
- Proven experience defining QA strategy, processes and metrics in an Agile / DevOps environment
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills
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Essential duties/Responsibilities
- Define and own the QA and testing strategy, standards and processes across digital products and platforms.
- Lead, mentor and develop a team of QA engineers / testers, managing workload allocation and quality of output.
- Design, implement and maintain test plans, test cases and automated test suites across functional, integration, regression and performance testing.
- Drive test automation adoption and tooling (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright) to increase coverage and reduce manual effort.
- Embed QA within Agile / DevOps delivery, integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
- Establish quality metrics and reporting (defect density, test coverage, escape rate) and report to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with development, product and business teams so requirements are testable and quality is built in early.
- Manage the defect lifecycle, root cause analysis and continuous improvement of the testing function.
Key Objectives
- Stand up an AI enabled test automation capability in the first year.
- Increase automated test coverage to an agreed target and integrate automated testing into the CI/CD pipeline.
- Build and uplift the QA team's capability and reduce the production defect escape rate by an agreed percentage year on year.
Qualifications, certifications, technical & soft skills
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related field.
- 6+ years in software QA / testing, including 2+ years in a QA lead / management role.
- Strong expertise in test automation frameworks and tools (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright or similar).
- Hands on experience with API testing, performance testing and CI/CD integration (e.g. Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab).
- Proven experience defining QA strategy, processes and metrics in an Agile / DevOps environment.
- Strong leadership, stakeholder management and communication skills.
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