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

What to do next If this Senior QA Lead role sounds like a good fit and you’d like to know more, please apply with your most up-to-date CV and I’ll be in touch.

Senior QA Lead | 6-12 months | £500 - £550 Inside IR35 | Fully Remote