Quality Cell Lead

Job Description:

Quality Cell Lead

Location:

Remote (Nearshore / Midshore GMT / CET / EET time zone alignment)
Duration:
Contract through to    end of February 2027
Day Rate:
£400 per day
About the Role     We are seeking a hands-on    Quality Cell Lead    to define, maintain, and elevate quality requirements across multi-cell engineering delivery. You will establish overall test and quality strategies, ensuring quality is engineered early rather than verified late.
A key focus of this role is supervising, refining, and continuously improving an    agentic-driven testing capability   where AI agents work alongside engineers to handle test coverage, regression, and defect detection.

Key Responsibilities       Quality Strategy and Road mapping:
Define and own the quality strategy, technical acceptance criteria, and quarterly/6-month quality roadmaps across APIs and microservices architectures.
Agent-Led and AI Testing Supervision:
Drive opportunities for agentic-driven delivery, overseeing AI agents that author, maintain, and execute test cases, regression suites, and defect triage workflows.
Standards and Assurance:
Establish quality standards, automated testing frameworks, and continuous delivery policies across all delivery cells.
E2E and Performance Testing:
Oversee API, component, load, and performance test coverage using automated tooling (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Jest, JMeter) integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
Quality Metrics and KPIs:
Track defect leakage, mean time to detect/resolve defects, automation execution rates, and testing-related technical debt.
Stakeholder and Cell

Collaboration:

Partner with Technical Leads, Product Owners, and engineers to ensure scalable, secure, and reliable releases.
Key Skills and Experience Required       Quality Leadership:
Proven experience leading functional, performance, and user acceptance testing strategies in complex software delivery environments.
Agentic and AI-Driven Delivery:
Hands-on experience or strong expertise in leveraging AI agents, prompts, and automated tooling to generate test cases, improve coverage, and optimize testing pipelines.
Automation and Engineering Tech Stack:
Advanced proficiency in JavaScript/Type Script (Node/NPM), API/microservices testing, automated frameworks (Jest, Cypress, Playwright), and CI/CD tools.
Frameworks and Observability:
Strong test data management skills and experience with performance tools (JMeter) and monitoring platforms (Grafana, Kibana).
Location Requirements:
Fully remote, based in    Nearshore or Midshore regions    with strong English communication skills and alignment with UK working hours.
Desirable Qualifications      ISTQB Advanced Level Test Manager
£400.00 / day
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