Lead Test Engineer

Location: Coventry (Hybrid working – 2 days a week onsite)
Salary: £55,000 – £65,000 + bonus & benefits
Employment Type: Permanent
Right to Work: UK only – British Citizenship or ILR required (no sponsorship)

About the Role

An established UK-based technology organisation is looking for a Lead Test Engineer to take ownership of software quality across a diverse product suite, including mobile applications, web platforms, APIs, and embedded systems.

This role combines strategic oversight with hands-on delivery. You’ll be responsible for defining testing approaches, ensuring high standards across releases, and acting as the quality advocate within cross-functional engineering teams.

What You’ll Be Responsible For

• Defining and owning testing strategy across multiple platforms and products

• Producing and maintaining comprehensive test plans, test cases, and quality documentation

• Leading functional, regression, stress, and exploratory testing activities

• Working closely with engineers and product teams to ensure features are testable and well-defined

• Supporting and enhancing CI/CD pipelines, including component-level testing

• Creating test stories based on specifications and technical input

• Executing both manual and automated tests for applications and APIs

• Validating embedded software functionality and stability

• Managing defect lifecycles and working with developers to identify root causes

• Promoting continuous improvement in testing processes and tooling

Essential Experience

• Strong analytical mindset with excellent troubleshooting skills

• Proven background building and executing structured test strategies

• Experience testing RESTful APIs, web applications, and mobile software

• Hands-on experience with test management and defect tracking tools

• Familiarity with container-based environments (e.g. Docker)

• Experience implementing and improving test frameworks or systems

• Clear and confident communication skills, both written and verbal

Advantageous Experience

• Automated testing experience (including mobile automation tools such as Appium)

• Unit testing knowledge

• Experience testing native Android and iOS applications

• Exposure to embedded or hardware-integrated software

• Producing technical and quality documentation for internal or external audiences

What’s On Offer

• Competitive salary with performance-related bonus

• Hybrid working model with Coventry office base

• Generous benefits package including:

  • Pension scheme

  • Private healthcare

  • Employee share scheme

  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays

  • Onsite parking

  • Employee discount programme