Senior Test Lead

• Strong experience of software-testing experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on test automation.
• Strong Java skills, including collections, streams, REST clients and Maven or Gradle.
• Strong TypeScript/JavaScript skills, including ES6+ and Node-based test tooling.
• Hands-on experience with Selenium, Playwright and Rest Assured, plus testing web services, web UI and REST APIs.
• Proven experience designing enterprise-level automation frameworks, ideally in a regulated environment.
• Practical experience across integration/contract and E2E testing, with a clear understanding of how these layers relate to unit coverage.
• Experience with SQL, synthetic test-data generation, Git workflows and CI tooling.
• Strong testing fundamentals, including equivalence partitioning, boundary analysis, negative testing and risk-based prioritisation.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills.
• Practical exposure to AI-assisted testing or development tools such as Copilot, Cursor or LLM-based test generation.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Financial services, automotive finance or another regulated industry
• Contract testing with Pact and service virtualisation
• Google Cloud and Cloud Build
• Performance testing with k6 or JMeter
• Security and compliance tooling such as OWASP ZAP, FOSSA or Cycode
• Knowledge of GDPR and security requirements for test data

A collaborative engineering culture where test automation is treated as software engineering. You will have opportunities for professional development and dedicated time and budget to evaluate AI-driven quality-engineering tools.

Help us deliver faster, safer and more resilient software for one of Europe's largest automotive finance companies.

• Build and evolve frameworks: Design maintainable, reusable and scalable test automation frameworks in Java and TypeScript.
• Strengthen the testing pyramid: Promote strong unit-test discipline and create contract, service-level integration, API and high-value end-to-end coverage.
• Improve UI and E2E quality: Build low-flake Selenium and Playwright suites, including visual regression and practical self-healing approaches.
• Integrate quality into delivery: Embed automated testing into CI/CD so teams receive useful quality signals in minutes, not days.
• Manage test data responsibly: Support data provisioning, masking, refresh and synthetic-data strategies in line with GDPR.
• Optimise and troubleshoot: Improve test speed and reliability, investigate failures and resolve automation issues quickly.
• Turn results into insight: Create reporting that highlights trends, risks and release readiness, not only pass/fail counts.
• Evaluate new tooling: Assess AI-assisted testing and development tools honestly, adopt what works at scale and explain their value and limitations to stakeholders.

• Our people work 4 days a week in the office and 1 day working from home.

This position is based in Madrid, and it is expected the successful candidate will be able to attend the office for typically 4 days a week and remain flexible on the days they are required to attend the office according to business requirements