Senior QA Lead — Mobile & Digital / FS / $70-80k P/M

Senior QA Lead — Mobile & Digital / FS / $70-80k P/M

12 month extendable contract

We are partnering with a leading organisation seeking an experienced Senior QA Lead to take ownership of quality assurance across its mobile and digital platforms.

This is a senior, hands-on leadership role responsible for defining the overall QA strategy, managing end-to-end testing activities, and ensuring the successful delivery of high-quality digital products across mobile applications, web platforms, APIs, and backend-integrated systems.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the overall QA strategy, testing standards, processes, and quality frameworks across mobile and digital platforms
• Manage end-to-end test planning, estimation, execution, reporting, and release-readiness activities
• Lead testing across iOS and Android applications, responsive web platforms, APIs, backend services, and system integrations
• Develop comprehensive test plans, test scenarios, test cases, regression suites, and acceptance criteria
• Drive the adoption and continued development of test automation across mobile, web, API, and regression testing
• Lead, mentor, and develop QA engineers, ensuring strong delivery standards and consistent testing practices
• Partner closely with product managers, developers, solution architects, business analysts, and business stakeholders
• Identify quality risks, technical dependencies, and potential delivery issues at an early stage
• Manage defect identification, prioritisation, tracking, root-cause analysis, and resolution
• Provide clear quality reporting, release recommendations, and risk assessments to senior stakeholders
• Support functional, integration, system, regression, performance, usability, and user acceptance testing
• Ensure appropriate testing coverage across different devices, operating systems, browsers, environments, and customer journeys
• Drive continuous improvement across QA processes, tools, automation coverage, and delivery practices
• Promote a quality-first mindset throughout Agile product and engineering teams

Requirements

• Strong experience in a Senior QA Lead, QA Manager, Test Lead, or similar position
• Proven experience testing customer-facing mobile applications and digital platforms
• Strong knowledge of mobile testing across both iOS and Android environments
• Experience leading testing across web applications, APIs, backend systems, and third-party integrations
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle, testing lifecycle, and release management processes
• Hands-on experience with test automation tools and frameworks for mobile, web, or API testing
• Experience managing defect lifecycles using tools such as Jira or similar platforms
• Strong understanding of functional, integration, regression, system, performance, and user acceptance testing
• Experience working within Agile or Scrum delivery environments
• Demonstrated experience leading, mentoring, and managing QA teams
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to communicate quality risks and technical issues clearly
• Ability to work across multiple projects, manage competing priorities, and maintain high delivery standards
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, and organisational skills

Desirable Experience

• Experience within a large-scale enterprise or highly regulated environment
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing within the development lifecycle
• Experience testing cloud-based platforms, microservices, or complex digital ecosystems
• Familiarity with mobile device farms, performance testing tools, and security testing practices
• Experience supporting major digital transformation or mobile application programmes

Argyll Scott Asia is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.