QA Automation Lead

About the Company

Join a pioneering tech business at the forefront of virtual sports and number game innovation. With a presence across five continents, this company is a licensed and GLI-certified provider of high-performance gaming platforms. Their cutting-edge solutions are seamlessly integrated into mobile, web, gaming terminals, and satellite broadcast platforms, delivering immersive and responsive user experiences to players worldwide.

With a team of over 60 professionals—including system architects, engineers, and designers—this company values innovation, flexibility, and global reach. Employees enjoy the freedom to work from anywhere in the world, balanced with the support of a collaborative and agile development environment.

Job Overview

We are hiring a QA Automation Lead to establish and scale a modern automation function within a currently manual-heavy QA environment.

This role will lead a team of seven QA practitioners embedded across delivery squads, while defining and executing a structured transition toward automation-led quality engineering. The focus is on embedding automation aligned to the SDLC, strengthening integration stability, improving release confidence, and ensuring regulatory compliance within a highly integrated gaming ecosystem.

Core Responsibilities

• Define, own, and evolve the quality strategy across the full SDLC
• Lead and mentor a team of seven QA professionals
• Drive the transition from manual testing to sustainable automation practices
• Review and optimise the existing Selenium regression suite
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Establish QA standards, governance, and quality metrics
• Ensure quality across APIs, databases, distributed systems, and integrations
• Support testing of wallet, payment, and transactional systems
• Ensure regulatory, compliance, and certification readiness
• Leverage AI-enabled testing capabilities to enhance automation maturity
• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, compliance, and operations teams

Minimum Requirements

• Proven experience in a QA Lead or Senior QA role
• Experience leading QA practitioners across multiple delivery teams
• Strong hands-on testing background across functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing
• Demonstrated experience implementing and scaling automation frameworks
• Experience testing APIs, databases, distributed systems, and cloud-based systems including Azure
• Solid understanding of Agile, Scrum, DevOps, and CI/CD models
• Coaching and mentoring capability

Bonus Skills (Nice-to-Have or Willingness to Learn)

• Experience within online gaming or gambling platforms
• Exposure to regulatory frameworks such as UKGC
• Familiarity with performance, load, stress, soak, and security testing
• Experience with high-availability and high-throughput systems
• Exposure to AI-assisted testing approaches

How to Apply?

This is not just another QA role. It’s an opportunity to build and shape a modern quality function within a globally integrated gaming platform.

You will step into a business operating at international scale, where quality, compliance, and player experience sit at the core of the product. The environment offers genuine transformation opportunity, technical depth, and the chance to embed automation practices that will define the next phase of platform evolution.

Email your CV to charne@skillzpage.com

(If you don’t hear from us within 2 weeks, please consider your application unsuccessful.)