Lead Test & QA Engineer (Automation & Microservices)

This is a West Yorkshire (Leeds), or Midlands/North East based role with an excellent immediate start within a Public Sector organisation working on Experience working across both monolith and distributed systems

What Makes You a Strong Fit

You are a deeply technical quality engineering leader with a passion for modern software delivery and engineering excellence. You combine hands-on technical capability with strategic influence and know how to raise standards across teams.

Essential Experience

• Proven experience operating at Lead, Principal, or Staff level within modern engineering organisations
• Strong expertise designing and implementing test strategies for microservices architectures
• Extensive hands-on automation experience using:

• Java
• Selenium
• REST Assured
• API, contract, and integration testing approaches

• Experience working across both monolith and distributed systems
• Strong understanding of:

• Contract testing
• API testing
• Event-driven and asynchronous architectures (Kafka)
• Non-functional testing including performance and accessibility

• Experience building and scaling automation frameworks with an automation-first mindset
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences

Technical Environment

Cloud & Platforms

• AWS
• Spring Boot ecosystems
• Docker

Test & Automation

• Selenium
• Serenity BDD
• Playwright
• REST Assured

Contract & Integration Testing

• Pactflow
• Spring Cloud Contract

Messaging & Data

• Kafka
• MongoDB

CI/CD & DevOps

• GitHub
• GitLab
• Jenkins

Performance & Observability

• Gatling
• K6
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Splunk