QA Lead, IT​/Tech, IT QA Tester ​/ Automation

QA Lead

Plymouth, Devon | Hybrid (2 / 3 days on‑site per week) | Up to £50k per annum

We're exclusively partnered with a leading technology organisation based in the Plymouth area, who are looking to onboard a QA Lead to support their continued growth.

• Establish and maintain QA processes across manual, regression, UAT, and automation testing.
• Evaluate, implement, and extend automation frameworks (Playwright preferred).
• Plan and execute testing for monthly releases, ensuring coverage of critical workflows.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Service to define quality standards and acceptance criteria.
• Document defects, support root cause analysis, and verify fixes.
• Guide teams on QA best practices and contribute to a well‑governed software development life cycle.

• Manual testing, regression planning, and UAT support.
• Automation frameworks (Playwright, Cypress, Selenium).
• Web and API testing.
• Defect identification, risk‑based testing, and prioritization.
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Azure Dev Ops preferred).
• Familiarity with accessibility, performance, security, or API contract testing is a plus.

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