QA Automation Lead

Quality at esurance is a shared responsibility and this role is where it all comes together. As QA Automation Lead youll own the automation foundation that our cross-functional product squads build on: setting the standards defining what good looks like and staying hands-on enough to make it real. Youll split your time roughly 70/30 between building and governing close enough to the code to stay credible and strategic enough to move the whole team forward. If you want a role where your technical decisions ripple across every product we ship this is it.

• Collaborate with the Tech Leads and Product Owners to ensure high quality in our Software product
• Define and establish a unified automation framework as the source of truth across all product teams and business services and setting the standard everyone builds to
• Set measure and align automation KPIs (coverage stability execution time) with leadership and department heads backed by accessible dashboards and clear reporting.
• Translate requirements into automated test strategies test case designs and scalable architectures and actively implement them not just specify them
• Govern and continuously refine test automation standards and integration practices across the full development lifecycle
• Establish transparency via broadly accessible dashboards & reportings
• Execute and oversee test activities including release validation and sign-off with automated quality checks as the backbone.
• Contribute to framework refactoring and optimisation raising the bar on test quality across teams
• Mentor align and guide 3x QA Automation Engineers on tooling patterns and quality practices

The essentials:

• A strong track record (8 years) designing and owning test automation frameworks in a modern microservice environment e.g. Automation maturity KPI trends (E2E coverage)
• Experience defining QA standards governance practices and KPIs across multiple teams or workstreams.
• The ability to balance hands-on technical delivery with cross-team alignment and leadership-level reporting.
• Our automation stack is web E2E on Playwright with TS. Thats the day-one hands-on reality of this role (50% of the time).

Great to have:

• Masters degree in Software Automation Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience building automation KPI dashboards and presenting quality metrics to management.
• Familiarity with GitLab CI/CD and integrating automated tests into the development pipeline.
• Background working in agile distributed product organisations ideally in a scale-up or InsurTech context.

What sets you apart as a person:

• You lead by doing equally comfortable deep in code and articulating quality strategy to leadership.
• You build trust across teams through consistent standards clear communication and results that are visible to everyone.

• Flexible working hours and a genuine hybrid/remote setup we trust you to work where you do your best thinking.
• Flat hierarchy with no layers between your ideas and their impact.
• A modern evolving tech stack with real influence over tooling and architecture decisions.
• Professional development to keep growing your craft.
• An international distributed team that values technical leadership and diverse perspectives.