Lead Quality Engineer

We're looking for a Lead Quality Engineer to shape and lead quality engineering across a major transformation programme within our Manheim Vehicle Services (MVS) platform.

This is a high-impact leadership role where you'll guide teams through the evolution from a legacy .NET monolith to a modern, cloud-native AWS architecture-while redefining how quality works in an AI-assisted development world.

You'll combine hands-on engineering expertise, strategic thinking, and people leadership to ensure we build software that is reliable, secure, and built to last.

?? What You'll Be Doing

?? Lead & Grow the QE Function

Lead, coach, and develop a team of Test Engineers and Analysts

Set the vision and standards for quality engineering

Act as a champion for quality across engineering and product

?? Own Quality in an AI-Driven Engineering Environment

Define quality guardrails for AI-generated and AI-assisted code

Evolve practices for testing, validation, and review

Shape how we maintain confidence in increasingly automated delivery

?? Drive Strategy & Delivery

Own and deliver the QA strategy and roadmap

Define approaches across:Functional and exploratory testing

Performance, security, and resilience

Lead automation strategy and tooling decisions

Provide clear, risk-based input into release decisions

?? Modernise Quality Engineering

Work across both legacy and modern platforms

Embed BDD and spec-driven development practices

Drive measurable improvements via metrics and KPIs

??? Our Tech Landscape

You'll operate across a modern, evolving stack:

Cloud: AWS

Backend: .NET / .NET Core

Frontend: React

Containers: Docker, EKS, ECS

Data: Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB

Messaging: Kafka, SNS/SQS, EventBridge

CI/CD: GitHub Actions

Testing: Playwright, Cypress, Postman, K6, Shape the direction of quality across a complex, high-volume platform

Essential Experience

Strong leadership experience in Quality Engineering / QA

Proven success delivering QA strategies with measurable outcomes

Deep knowledge of:Agile, CI/CD, modern SDLC

Test automation at scale

Hands-on experience with:Modern and legacy systems

API and performance testing

Cloud environments (AWS preferred)

Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Nice to Have

Experience working with AI-assisted or agentic development

Background in large-scale transformation or migration programmes

Familiarity with Docker, Terraform, observability tooling

Data testing and quality experience

?? How You'll Work

Value-driven: Focused on outcomes, not activity

Pragmatic: Able to balance speed, risk, and quality

Empathetic leader: Supporting teams through change

Collaborative: Partnering across engineering, product, and architecture