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YOUR MISSION
About the Organisation & Role:
You will be part of the DTC Platform Engineering organisation responsible for delivering the shared platforms, engineering services, and foundations that enable product teams to build, test, deploy, and operate software securely and reliably at scale. Product engineering teams are the primary customers of the organisation. Through capabilities such as cloud platforms, developer experience, software delivery, quality engineering, security engineering, performance engineering, and AI-native engineering enablement, the organisation helps accelerate software delivery, improve engineering productivity, and establish consistent engineering standards across the technology landscape.
As a Lead Quality Engineer – Regression & Automation, you will define and drive the quality engineering strategy across the Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) technology landscape. Working within the Platform Engineering organization, you will establish quality standards, test architecture, automation frameworks and engineering best practices. You will lead quality enablement across web, mobile, commerce, integrations and platform services, partnering closely with engineering, product and platform teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle. Your focus will be on empowering product teams through reusable tooling, automation platforms, quality insights, governance frameworks and modern testing practices that improve release confidence, delivery speed and platform stability.
What you will d o:
· Define and drive the Regression Testing, Test Automation, and Quality Engineering strategy across multiple products and engineering teams.
· Lead one or more automation teams, providing technical leadership, mentoring, and capability development.
· Own automation architecture, framework design, tooling decisions, and engineering standards for quality delivery.
· Establish and maintain scalable automation frameworks for Web, Mobile, API, Integration, and End-to-End testing.
· Drive shift-left quality practices and integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
· Ensure comprehensive regression coverage and continuously optimize test suites for reliability, maintainability, and execution efficiency.
· Define quality metrics, automation KPIs, release-readiness criteria, and engineering quality dashboards.
· Partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, SRE, and Architecture teams to embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
· Drive adoption of modern testing practices including API-first testing, service virtualization, test data management, and AI-assisted testing.
· Lead continuous improvement initiatives that enhance automation coverage, reduce defect leakage, and improve release confidence
YOUR TALENT
· 10+ years of experience in Quality Engineering, Test Automation, and Software Testing, including leadership of automation teams.
· Strong expertise in designing and implementing scalable automation frameworks and test architectures.
· Proven experience leading enterprise-wide regression testing and quality engineering initiatives.
· Hands-on experience with automation tools such as Playwright,Maestro or Appium.
· Strong programming skills in JavaScript/TypeScript, Python or a comparable language.
· Hands-on experience with API and integration test automation, including REST and GraphQL services.
· Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or equivalent.
· Strong understanding of Agile delivery practices, test strategy, quality governance, and release management.
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