Quality Engineering Lead

We Dayshapeword-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth,powering confident decisions,and ensuring satisfied clients andteamswe're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.

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• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.

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Recognised as Scotland fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, wewe consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and weare always looking for like-minded people to join us.

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious teamriven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that reimagining resource management, then let talk.

We looking for a Quality Engineering Lead who will add new strengths to our Quality Engineering leadership team: someone with proven experience improving how teams work, streamlining quality and release processes, and helping engineering functions scale with confidence.

This is a people leadership role with a hands-on improvement remit. You line manage a group of Quality Engineers, building their confidence, judgement, stakeholder awareness, technical capability, and ownership of quality outcomes.

You also work with Engineering, Product, Platform, and Principal Quality Engineers to improve quality and release practices across teams. This includes identifying bottlenecks, simplifying ways of working, automating manual controls, strengthening CI/CD quality signals, improving deployment and release confidence, and helping teams adopt AI responsibly in shared workflows rather than only using it for individual productivity.

The role adds resilience, pace, and scalability to the Quality Engineering function. You deputise for the Quality Engineering Manager on agreed release activities, lead selected cross-team improvements, and help reduce reliance on individuals, manual processes, and locally different ways of working.

You won3e not be permanently embedded in a product team as additional QE capacity. However, you should be comfortable investigating problems, reviewing technical approaches, proving improvements, and helping teams adopt better ways of working.

You partner with Principal Quality Engineers, who retain technical leadership for areas such as automation strategy, performance testing, and AI-assisted quality engineering. Depending on the need, you may lead an improvement directly or support a Principal QE to turn technical direction into sustained change.

Success will be measured through the growth and effectiveness of the people you manage, and through measurable improvements in how the wider team works: faster feedback loops, clearer quality evidence, more repeatable release practices, stronger adoption of shared…