Senior AI QA Engineer

Overview

We're looking for a Senior AI QA Engineer who doesn't wait to be told what to test. You'll own quality across our Wealth Management experience — from strategy to execution, from microservices to the UI your customers touch. This role shapes how quality works, pushes automation to developers, and advocates shift-left while maintaining high standards under pressure.

You'll be the quality voice in product discussions, architecture reviews, and incident retrospectives. When something breaks, you're already halfway through debugging it. When a new product launches, you've already stress-tested it.

• Own the Quality Strategy. Define and execute the test strategy for every new product and feature across the Wealth Management business line. Build and adapt plans to real-world conditions.
• Drive Automation Where It Matters. Build and maintain automation frameworks for microservices, APIs, and end-to-end flows. Enable team self-sufficiency for regressions.
• Lead Performance Testing. Own performance testing end-to-end — design load profiles, script scenarios, analyze results, and collaborate with engineering to fix issues.
• Champion Shift-Left Practices. Embed quality thinking early in the development lifecycle. Ask how to test in design reviews and shorten feedback loops.
• Monitor, Observe, Debug. Read logs, trace requests in distributed systems, and independently debug issues without waiting for a root-cause handoff.
• Operate Under Pressure. Manage multiple projects, communicate tradeoffs clearly, and deliver consistently under high pace.
• Influence and Collaborate. Work across product, engineering, and stakeholder teams; raise risks early and bring teams along.

• 7+ years in QA with a track record of owning quality across complex, modern systems.
• Deep programming ability with strong skills in at least one language; preference for Type Script, with ability to pick up other languages quickly.
• Automation expertise for microservices, with experience in contract testing, API testing, and keeping test suites fast and reliable.
• Performance testing proficiency with tools such as K6, Gatling, Locust, or JMeter and ability to design realistic load models.
• CI/CD fluency; experience integrating test automation into pipelines; AWS infrastructure experience preferred.
• Monitoring and observability know-how with tools like Datadog, Grafana, Cloud Watch, etc.
• Strong communication and presence in agile ceremonies, product discussions, and cross-team conversations.

Experience testing AI-driven or non-deterministic systems is valued. Strong plus if you have:

• Testing agentic AI systems, LLM-powered features, or recommendation engines with probabilistic outputs.
• Designing validation strategies for non-deterministic behavior, including output quality scoring and guardrail verification.
• Evaluating AI model outputs for accuracy, safety, bias, and hallucination.

If you haven't worked with AI yet but are curious and eager to learn, that matters to us too.

• Experience in fintech, wealth management, or regulated financial services.
• Contributions to internal quality guilds or engineering culture initiatives.
• Experience mentoring junior QA engineers or developers on testing best practices.

Beyond the skills and experience, we want ownership and independence. You don't wait for permission to improve something. You fix gaps in coverage, flaky tests, or missing dashboards. You treat the Wealth Management experience line as yours and hold yourself to the same standard as the product.

You're a quality enabler who helps teams ship reliable software.

• Monday to Thursday: 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM
• Friday: 8:00 AM – 4:00 PM

Enjoy a structured yet balanced workweek with an early Friday finish to kickstart your weekend.

• Salary: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum
• Discretionary performance-related annual bonus
• Workplace pension scheme (5% on earnings up to £50,000)
• Private medical insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to work, season ticket loan, and other wellbeing benefits
• Free ChipX subscription for UK-based employees
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays,…