Senior QA Lead 6-12 months £500 - £550 Inside IR35 Fully Remote
Senior QA Lead | 6-12 months | £500 - £550 Inside IR35 | Fully Remote We’re recruiting a Senior QA Lead to take full ownership of quality for one of our key client’s projects as it moves from a successful POC into a production-ready MVP. As the sole QA on the project, you’ll define the test approach, build automation from the ground up, and ensure the integrity, safety, accessibility and performance of a platform that will transform how national healthcare guidance is delivered.This role is fully remote, pays between £500 - £550 per day Inside IR35 and requires UK-based resource and eligibility for DBS clearance for security reasons.Key Requirements
- 5+ Years of proven Senior/Lead QA experience, ideally as the sole QA on complex digital products
- Ability to define end-to-end test strategy across discovery, build and iterate phases
- Hands-on testing of AWS cloud-native systems (Lambda, API Gateway, S3, CI/CD)
- Strong automation skills with Playwright, Cypress or TypeScript/Python frameworks
- Experience testing APIs, structured data models and ideally NoSQL/graph technologies
- Familiarity with React/Next.js front-ends and modern TypeScript-based applications
- Understanding of semantic/graph data (e.g., RDF triples, SPARQL, Amazon Neptune)
- Ability to validate AI-supported features, including LLM/RAG behaviours via Amazon Bedrock
- Knowledge of performance testing for serverless architectures and WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility
- Familiarity with GDS Standards and testing in the public sector is highly beneficial
- Strong communicator, comfortable operating autonomously in a high-trust environment