Test Lead

SF Partners
Birmingham, United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
£85,000 – £95,000 pa

Salary

£85,000 – £95,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Lead
Education
Degree
Posted
18 May 2026 (2 weeks ago)

Benefits

10% bonus scheme 25 days holiday Private healthcare Private pension scheme Annual pay reviews Flexible working hours

Test Lead with extensive experience designing and delivering automation test plans for highly complex, enterprise level applications is sought by an innovation house based near Birmingham. With large scale investment in technical innovation this Test Lead will take charge of a dynamic, autonomous team delivering an automated testing environment that will facilitate the organisations commitment to cutting edge automation over the coming years.

This Test Lead will be joining a highly skilled team that embodies an autonomous knowledge share driven culture allowing this individual the chance to work closely with software engineers to deliver applications with national significance.

This role would suit an existing Test Lead with in-depth understanding of engineering principles and best practice gained testing large scale, complex systems and who is happy to work closely with the software engineering leads to help define a new automated QA process.

This Test Lead based near Birmingham should have most of the following key skills:

- Extensive experience designing and delivering automation test plans for enterprise applications/ systems
- Strong knowledge of engineering principles and best practice ideally gained in a regulated environment
- Team leadership
- Experience with cloud native architectures
- Understanding of DevOps tooling
- A innovation focussed mindset
- Exposure to testing new features within a product led, tech driven environment
- Impeccable communication skills as internal stakeholder management between technical teams will form a large part of this role
- A real can-do attitude and a passion for technology in general

The benefits for this role include:

- Starting salary of up to £95,000
- 10% bonus scheme
- Flexible, hybrid working (two days a week in the office in North Birmingham
- One on one training scheme
- 25 days holiday
- Private healthcare
- Private pension scheme
- Annual pay reviews
- Flexible working hours

So if you are a Test Lead based near Birmingham and want to join a tech driven market leading organisation that is committed to ensuring they stay ahead of the tech curve then please apply now to be considered.

Birmingham
Up to £95,000
Quality Assurance, automated testing scripts, Postman, Java, cucumber, API, test plan

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