{"id":1419637,"url":"https://alion.io/job/quantum-lead-software-developer-in-test","title":"Lead Software Developer in Test","company":{"id":456063,"name":"Quantum","domain":"quantum.media","url":"https://alion.io/company/quantum-7","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Cypress","optional":false},{"name":"Docker","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub Actions","optional":false},{"name":"JavaScript","optional":false},{"name":"Playwright","optional":false},{"name":"TypeScript","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":true},{"name":"Claude","optional":true},{"name":"k6","optional":true},{"name":"Pact","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-28T15:53:37Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-28","last_verified_at":"2026-10-01T07:56:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Our Company\n At Quantum, we connect global brands with high-intent consumers. We turn intent into action and complexity into clarity.\nOur Mission is clear, to help smarter, faster buying decisions. Our vision, to be the world’s most used digital comparison service, delivering value and simplicity to millions.\nWe drive growth through data-driven affiliate marketing built for performance from day one. Every campaign is measurable, optimised in real time, and designed to scale.\nWith in-house tech, full-stack analytics, and a compliance-first mindset, we give our partners an edge. We drive confident decisions and growth in regulated and high-growth sectors. We’ve helped ambitious brands grow faster, smarter, and globally.\nThe role\nOur in-house engineering team builds and runs every product we operate. We work in two product teams, iGaming and Rewards, supported by platform and infrastructure engineers. We are partway through building a new version of our platform, which makes this the right moment to put quality engineering at the heart of how we deliver.\nYou will lead quality engineering across both product teams. You will guide how we test, build the frameworks and pipelines that make testing fast, and help every engineer take ownership of the quality of their own work.\nThis is a hands-on technical role. Early on you will write a lot of the framework code yourself. Over time your influence will come through the tooling you build and the engineers you coach.\nWhat you'll do\nDefine our test strategy: what we test at unit, integration, contract and end-to-end level, so every team knows where a given test belongs and why.\n\nBuild and own our automation framework in Playwright and TypeScript, covering web front ends and APIs across both product teams.\n\nMake CI feedback fast and trustworthy.\n\nBring our existing end-to-end suite to a healthy state and keep it there as the new platform grows.\n\nCoach developers to write and own tests for their own code, through pairing, code review and clear examples.\n\nSet up test data and environments that let teams test realistically and safely.\n\nIntroduce performance and load testing for our core applications.\n\nWork with product managers so acceptance criteria are testable before build starts, and so testing time is part of every estimate.\n\nTrack a small set of quality measures, such as escaped defects, change failure rate, suite run time and flake rate, and use them to decide where to invest next.\n\nAbout you\nStrong coding skills in TypeScript or JavaScript, with test code written to the same standard as production code.\n\nDeep experience with a modern browser automation framework. Playwright is ideal; Cypress experience transfers well (we’re in the process of migrating from Cypress to Playwright).\n\nA track record of designing test strategy across the full testing pyramid for web products and APIs, including judging where automation earns its keep.\n\nExperience running automated tests in CI (GitHub Actions ideally) with Docker, and fixing pipelines that are slow or unreliable.\n\nEvidence of raising quality through other people, whether by coaching developers, setting standards or leading a quality practice.\n\nNice to have\nContract testing in a service-based architecture, for example with Pact.\n\nPerformance and load testing with k6, Artillery or similar.\n\nUsing AI coding assistants to speed up writing and maintaining tests, with the judgement to review what they produce.\n\nUsing observability data and production signals to decide what to test.\n\nVisual regression or accessibility testing.\n\nExperience in a regulated industry such as iGaming, fintech or health.\n\nHow you work\nYou explain quality trade-offs to product managers and business stakeholders in plain terms.\n\nYou will hold a release back when the evidence says it is not ready, and then help the team find a safe way to ship.\n\nYou write things down: strategies, decisions and guides other engineers can pick up and follow.\n\nYou are comfortable shaping a practice from an early stage, where you will need to decide what matters most first.\n\nWhat You’ll Get\nPrivate Health Care (Bupa)\n\nHybrid Working (3 days in office)\n\nTravel Insurance\n\nCompetitive Base Salary\n\nCompany Bonus Scheme\n\nPaid for AI Subscription (Claude / ChatGPT / Gemini)\n\nMarket-Leading Training Programme\n\nRecognition & Reward Scheme\n\nAnnual Company Conference\n\nRegular Happy Hours & Team Lunches\n\nFree Coffee, Drinks & Snacks\n\nWhat’s the next step?\n Our hiring process ensures we're recruiting the right people for the role. We ensure that people are as suitable for us as we are for them.\nIf you like the sound of what we're all about at Quantum and want to join a team where you can make an impact, please apply or contact us at .","description_format":"text","description_chars":4763,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-28T21:54:39Z"}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":20,"reasons":["conf:7","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/quantum-lead-software-developer-in-test","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/quantum-lead-software-developer-in-test.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T09:54:56Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":790,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4210,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}