Test Engineering Manager - Automation

About the Company:

My client is a global fintech organisation delivering cutting-edge merchant solutions to a rapidly growing customer base. With a cloud-first architecture, product-led strategy, and commitment to engineering excellence, they are investing heavily in building a high-performance QA function to support ongoing innovation and scale.

Role Overview
I'm looking for a Test Engineering Manager to lead and scale a distributed team responsible for driving automation, performance testing, and quality engineering across the SDLC.

This is a strategic "player-coach" position that combines leadership, delivery ownership, and hands-on technical contribution in a modern CI/CD and DevOps environment.

You'll partner with engineering leadership to define the roadmap, mentor engineers, and implement test strategies that embed quality into every stage of product development.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and implement scalable test strategies across UI, API, performance, and integration layers
• Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team of SDETs and QA engineers
• Embed automation across the SDLC using modern frameworks and tooling
• Champion shift-left practices and advocate for testability in architecture and design
• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to align testing with business outcomes
• Own quality metrics, risk reporting, and test governance across product teams

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in QA in a leadership or managerial capacity
• Proven background in automation frameworks, performance tools, and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong knowledge of tools such as Playwright, K6, JMeter, Selenium, REST Assured, Azure DevOps
• Experience designing test strategies for cloud-based, microservice-driven platforms
• Confident leading remote teams and mentoring engineers of varying seniority

What They Offer:

• Salary up to £75k
• Fully-remote working
• Private pension scheme
• Private healthcare
• High spec equipment provided

For more information on this opportunity, connect with Neill Ferguson on LinkedIn or submit your CV via the link below.