QA Lead Engineer

About Arcus
Arcus is a fast growing and successful GovTech company. We are dynamic and forward thinking, with great ambition. At Arcus, you will have the chance to share your knowledge and make your presence felt. With our people at the core of everything we do, we don’t want people to ‘fit in’, diversity and difference are essential to creativity. We want people to thrive in our open and collaborative environment and be an integral part of our close knit team. So, if you are looking for something more than ‘just a job’, you are in the right place. We have big company benefits, including Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance and Pension, as well as Volunteering Days, Health & Wellbeing benefits and social activities.

If this all appeals and you have the ambition to match ours, then read on!

The Job Role
We are looking for an experienced QA Lead Engineer to join our Product Development department. This is a pivotal role in which you will take ownership of product quality across the Arcus product suite, define our long-term QA strategy and lead the transition from manual to automated testing on the Salesforce platform.
You will line manage, mentor and grow our existing team of manual testers. Initially you’ll balance leadership with hands-on testing, getting to know our product suite, user journeys and architecture in depth while you plan our automation roadmap, and then lead on delivering it.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities
● Team Leadership & Management: Line managing and coaching the testing team, setting clear performance goals, balancing workloads and supporting professional growth.
● QA Strategy & Automation: Defining and delivering a QA strategy that moves the team from manual testing to a robust automated framework, including AI-driven test generation.
● Hands-on Testing: Carrying out manual regression, functional, UX and integration testing to build product knowledge and ease backlog bottlenecks.
● Automation Frameworks: Designing, building and optimising scalable automated test suites using frameworks such as Playwright and UTAM.
● Salesforce Platform Validation: Tackling the unique complexities of automated testing on Salesforce to ensure stability across managed packages and custom configurations.
● Cross-functional Collaboration: Partnering with our Implementation and Release teams to extend automation to customer upgrades and implementations, and communicating QA progress across teams.
● Documentation: Helping write and review documentation, changelogs and policy alongside the Product team.

Is this you?

Essential Requirements:
● Significant experience in a senior QA role with direct line management responsibility for testing staff.
● Demonstrated success moving a QA function from manual to automated testing.
● Hands-on proficiency with modern automation frameworks such as Playwright or Selenium.
● Practical experience handling automated testing constraints within Salesforce environments (for example shadow DOM, dynamic IDs and locators, and conditional rendering).
● Solid coding capabilities in object-oriented or modern script languages (e.g., JavaScript/TypeScript, Java) along with comfort handling HTML, CSS, and JSON payloads.
● Exceptional logic and system-level troubleshooting skills within interconnected cloud environments.
● Deep familiarity with agile delivery, CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Bitbucket and Jira.
● Excellent communication skills, with the ability to discuss complex matters in writing and in person with technical and non-technical audiences.
● Ability to write clear documentation for different audiences.
● Fluent written and spoken English

Desirable Requirements:
● Relevant qualifications or certifications in management, leadership and technical.
● Experience using UTAM (Salesforce UI Test Automation Model).
● Experience implementing AI-driven test generation.

This role is open to candidates based in the UK or Spain who have the right to work there.

To apply, please contact:

Joel Aldridge

www.hiringpeople.co.uk

0330 1002230

Equal Opportunities Statement

Arcus is committed to maintaining a workplace free from discrimination or harassment. We expect every member of the team to enable  and maintain an inclusive environment where everyone  is treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees. We appoint, train, develop and promote on the basis of merit and ability. We examine our unconscious biases and take responsibility for always striving to create and uphold an environment where everyone feels welcome, respected and valued.

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