QE AI Lead Engineer

As a QE AI Engineer & QE Architect, you will have the opportunity of joining an award winning Quality Engineering team that is working on some of the most cutting edge technologies that is embracing new innovations, such as in built quality checks that embraces AI/GenAI & agentic AI across the full SDLC. What is key to this role is the ability to lead and inspire a team, fostering a collaborative and productive work environment.

This is a hands on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC not just test automation and QE. You will lead the expansion of our existing portfolio of Quality Engineering assets and services. Having strong verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey technical information to non-technical stakeholders is a must.

You will join a highly focused quality engineering team that are experts in driving a AI & agentic AI engineering led approach to driving value for our clients. You are responsible to ensure Shift-Left Testing emphasising early testing in the development lifecycle. You will have experience of multiple Automation Frameworks that support various types of testing.

You will play a key role as an AI mentor and train your team on the latest testing tools and methodologies.

You will always look for ways to drive SDLC efficiencies and to improve the quality engineering approach. You will have knowledge on capturing the value created through defining and tracking quality metrics.

• Extensive experience as a Senior QE SDET Engineer or Senior Developer
• Has breadth of experience across different tech-stacks, such as JavaScript/Type Script, Java, C#, or Python, amongst others
• Experienced in RAG Weaviate, OpenAI, Agents, MCP, Langchain, Prompt Engineering, Browser-Use, and Django
• Experienced building AI Tools, Agents and Agentic workflows (Lang Graph, CrwAI)
• Hands-on Product building experience that cuts across the full SDLC - not just test automation and QE.
• Experienced in building RAG system with a nice-to-have on fine-tuning LLMs
• Cleaning/augmenting data
• Comfortable with IAS (Infra As Code) eg. giving a high-level spec
• Fully understands test automation (across platforms and functional/non-functional) and associated tech
• Presentation skills - C-Suite clients and in-house
• Mentoring - non-AI SDETs
• Innovation - art of the possible
• Experienced in Junit, Jest, PyTest, NUnit, Appium, WDIO, Selenium, Cypress, Browser Stack, Swagger, Wire Mock, Postman et al
• Development frameworks:
  Spring, Angular, .NET, Node et al
• CI/CD:
  Jenkins, Git Lab CI/CD, Docker/AWS, Azure Dev Ops
• Databases:
  Sql Server, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, H2
• BDD:
  Cucumber, Fit Nesse, Spec Flow, Rest Assured, EasyB et al
• Performance:
  Gatling, JMeter, Web Page Test , Light House
• Security & code quality:
  Sonar Qube, Jacoco, PiTest, OWASP, Axe et al
• Hands on software test automation, ideally founded on a background as a senior Developer
• Experienced in building a strategy covering all aspects of the SDLC process, development, automation, CI, and metrics
• Hands on using Spring Java, Angular, Python, Git Lab CI/CD, Junit, Jest, Cucumber, Bash, Gatling et al
• Experienced in helping teams evolve an Agile ‘Shift Left’ way of working
• Experience of building advanced and feature rich test automation frameworks from scratch using Object-oriented and scripted languages 
• Has a depth of knowledge in the Object-oriented Programming paradigm (OOP) and has practically applied the principles 
• Comfortable working with Git repositories and workflows on multiple tasks concurrently
• Ability to manage…