Lead QA Engineer

Head Resourcing
Edinburgh, Alba / Scotland, United Kingdom
3 days ago
Job Type
Permanent
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Lead
Posted
1 Jun 2026 (3 days ago)

Benefits

Private healthcare Enhanced maternity and paternity leave Profit share scheme

Edinburgh - one day per week in the office, some travel to visit clients

Role - Lead QA Engineer

Head Resourcing have partnered with a global transformation consultancy who are looking to recruit a Lead QA Engineer.

This is an incredible opportunity to join a well-respected organisation who are looking to scale up a whole new team in Scotland's capital delivering digital transformation programmes across tech for good projects.

Day to day

  • Lead the design, implementation, and execution of QA strategies across complex projects
  • Champion automation-first testing approaches within CI/CD pipelines
  • Collaborate closely with engineers, designers, data specialists, and delivery teams
  • Select and implement modern testing frameworks and tools (manual & automated)
  • Drive best practice, standards, and continuous improvement across QA capability
  • Oversee end-to-end testing including functional and non-functional testing
  • Manage relationships with third-party testing providers (e.g. security, accessibility)
  • Mentor and support engineers-developing QA capability across teams
  • Contribute to recruitment and internal capability development initiatives

Key Skills & Experience

  • Strong background in software testing within Agile / DevOps environments
  • Proven experience leading QA across enterprise-scale applications
  • Hands-on expertise in test automation and CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Strong knowledge of testing tools such as:

  • Selenium, Cypress, Playwright
  • Cucumber / Gherkin
  • JMeter / BlazeMeter
  • OWASP ZAP, SonarQube, BrowserStack

Experience delivering:

  • Performance & scalability testing
  • Security & penetration testing
  • Accessibility testing
  • UAT / OAT

Experience of working in a consultancy professional services environment would be preferred.

Salary is negotiable with benefits including private healthcare, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, and a profit share scheme.

Sound interesting?

Apply now!

Head Resourcing is committed to being an inclusive business where diversity is valued and celebrated.

Diversity to us, includes but is not limited to: educational background, socio-economic background, neurodiversity, age, marriage and civil partnership status, veteran status, gender, gender identity, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief, race and ethnicity. As such we welcome enquiries and applications from everyone. We will be happy discuss with you any workplace adjustments you need in order to be at your best during the recruitment process.

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