Head of QA

London, United Kingdom $105k - $161k* Posted on February 15, 2026

Job Description

Define company-wide quality strategy, standards, and ways of working. Drive alignment between quality goals, business objectives, and release milestones by establishing clear release policies and quality gates. As budget owner, you design and build the QA organization by defining career pathways, coaching and mentoring quality engineers, fostering knowledge sharing, and introducing new technologies and state-of-the-art processes. Adopt an automation-first testing approach across web, mobile, API, and backend services to identify issues early and consistently throughout the release cycle. Ensure centralized test and test suite management within a test management tool to achieve full visibility of manual and automated testing activities.

Define company-wide quality strategy, standards, and ways of working. Drive alignment between quality goals, business objectives, and release milestones by establishing clear release policies and quality gates. As budget owner, you design and build the QA organization by defining career pathways, coaching and mentoring quality engineers, fostering knowledge sharing, and introducing new technologies and state-of-the-art processes. Adopt an automation-first testing approach across web, mobile, API, and backend services to identify issues early and consistently throughout the release cycle. Ensure centralized test and test suite management within a test management tool to achieve full visibility of manual and automated testing activities.

8–12+ years in software testing, including 3+ years leading multi-disciplinary quality teams. Proven track record defining org-level quality strategies and processes. Strong experience with test automation frameworks and programming (e.g., JS/TS/Java/Kotlin/Swift). Expertise building and operating CI/CD-integrated test systems and pipelines.

8–12+ years in software testing, including 3+ years leading multi-disciplinary quality teams. Proven track record defining org-level quality strategies and processes. Strong experience with test automation frameworks and programming (e.g., JS/TS/Java/Kotlin/Swift). Expertise building and operating CI/CD-integrated test systems and pipelines.

Experience defining security testing programs (audits, fuzzing, bug bounties, formal verification). Public speaking or internal enablement (meetups, trainings) to raise the quality bar. Contribution to open-source test frameworks or internal reusable libraries. Web3 quality expertise (smart contracts, wallets, cross-chain) or equivalent complex distributed systems exposure.

Experience defining security testing programs (audits, fuzzing, bug bounties, formal verification). Public speaking or internal enablement (meetups, trainings) to raise the quality bar. Contribution to open-source test frameworks or internal reusable libraries. Web3 quality expertise (smart contracts, wallets, cross-chain) or equivalent complex distributed systems exposure.

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