Lead Quality Engineer – Test Automation, Transformation

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇮🇪 Ireland – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚙️ Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET)

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8 West Consulting

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

8 West Consulting is an ISO 27001 certified, award-winning enterprise software development company based in Cork, Ireland. With a team of over 220 professionals and a 25-year history, 8 West specializes in delivering innovative software solutions for businesses, ensuring on-time delivery and consistent quality in their services.

📋 Description

• Assess testing maturity across enterprise teams, prioritise common opportunities and lead phased adoption of automation, AI-assisted testing and improved data practices • Write and debug UI, API, integration and data tests • Investigate defects and support releases on live engagements • Define quality engineering principles, review solutions and guide tool choices across projects • Design and implement reusable test-data builders, fixtures, seeding and reset patterns • Implement AI-assisted test design, case and script generation, synthetic data creation and failure analysis • Establish validation, safe-use practices and repeatable adoption for AI-enabled testing • Establish lightweight patterns for frameworks, CI/CD, test reporting and governance • Pair with testers and developers, review implementations, mentor senior engineers and build training and adoption plans • Explain quality risks, investment choices, technical trade-offs and transformation progress to senior stakeholders and clients • Measure adoption and results across projects, including regression effort, test stability, independent data setup, AI effectiveness, feedback speed and release confidence

🎯 Requirements

• Personally led substantial testing improvements across several teams, applications or workstreams in an enterprise environment, with clear evidence of adoption and delivery outcomes • Strong coding, debugging and automation skills, including direct work on production test suites in C#, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Java or equivalent • Implemented AI-assisted testing on real enterprise projects and helped other engineers adopt it, with verified test/data generation, practical safeguards and measured results • Personally built reusable, isolated test datasets and shared patterns for relational or integrated systems using SQL, APIs, fixtures and builders; manages integrity, synthetic/masked data and reset • Able to set patterns across UI, API, integration, contract, data and regression tests, review designs and balance reuse with project-specific needs • Practical experience testing .NET, SQL Server and/or Azure applications, including Azure DevOps or equivalent pipelines, Git and engineering workflows • Broad experience with Playwright, Selenium, Cypress, Postman or equivalents, plus CI/CD integration, test environments and flaky-test diagnosis • Built practical roadmaps, gained support across teams and delivered improvements incrementally despite competing deadlines and legacy constraints • Can influence engineering and business leaders without formal authority, explain investment and quality trade-offs, and develop engineers through pairing and mentoring • Desirable: regulated enterprise environments, advanced AI quality practices, specialist testing, broader platforms and consultancy experience • Ability to communicate clearly with colleagues, clients and senior stakeholders, including speaking English

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement • Opportunities to work across US, European and UK client engagements • Professional coaching, mentoring and practical training opportunities • Opportunities to work with AI-assisted testing and modern quality engineering practices

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