Lead Quality Assurance Engineer

Lead Quality Assurance Engineer - Mobile & Web (Contract)

Location: Remote (UK)

Day Rate: £500 - £550 per day (Outside)

Duration: 6 Months

We're working with a globally recognised digital technology business to find a Quality Engineer for a greenfield automation project on their mobile-first platform. This is a hands-on, autonomous contract role with a blank canvas - no inherited framework, no prescribed tooling, just the scope to build it properly from the ground up.

The platform is mobile-first (roughly 75% app, 25% web), and the focus of the first six months will be establishing end-to-end test automation, surfacing quality gaps, and improving the overall debuggability and health of the product. There's an existing Cypress setup on the web layer and an open conversation about Playwright - but the mobile automation piece is where this role lives.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a mobile-first test automation framework using Appium for native iOS and Android coverage
• Define the end-to-end test strategy across mobile, web, and CI/CD - and integrate it into the delivery pipeline
• Surface and communicate quality gaps across the platform, improving visibility for engineering and product
• Establish standards for test data management, environment strategy, and API mocking
• Coach and upskill engineers on quality practices

Key Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience for native mobile app testing with Appium
• Production-level Cypress experience, with a view on Playwright migration
• A track record of building automation frameworks from scratch with little or no existing infrastructure
• Experience integrating test suites into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions or similar)
• Proficiency in TypeScript and/or JavaScript

Desirable

• Experience with cross-device cloud testing platforms such as BrowserStack or LambdaTest
• Exposure to visual regression and accessibility testing (axe, WCAG)
• Front-end performance testing - Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals
• Background in high-traffic e-commerce or conversion-critical applications
• Experience working with multi-market or localised products

Details

• £500 - £550 per day (Outside)
• 6-month contract
• Fully remote - UK-based candidates only

This is a strong contract opportunity for a Quality Engineer who wants genuine autonomy, a meaningful technical challenge, and the chance to leave a lasting foundation on a platform used at scale.

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