Quality Engineering Lead

Technology | Hybrid

Role Summary

The Quality Engineering Lead will own Vave’s quality engineering approach and matrix manage the Test Automation Engineers. This is a hands-on leadership role, combining people management, test strategy and automation engineering across Vave’s API-first insurance platform and supporting web applications.

You will set clear standards, own the framework, work with developers & product teams to embed quality throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

You will remain actively involved in automation, release readiness and the investigation of complex defects.

Key Responsibilities

• Own quality engineering: Define a pragmatic, risk-based test strategy, quality standards and release readiness criteria across delivery teams.

• Lead the team: Manage, coach and develop the Test Automation Engineers.

• Drive automation: Guide the design and maintenance of automated tests for APIs, web applications, backend services and supporting platforms, including functional, integration and regression coverage.

• Embed testing in delivery: Ensure automated tests run effectively within CI/CD pipelines and strengthen shift-left testing within Agile teams.

• Assure requirements: Work with developers and product teams to improve acceptance criteria, testability, coverage and edge-case analysis.

• Improve outcomes: Use meaningful quality measures to improve release confidence, reduce escaped defects and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

• Support delivery: Review automation, investigate complex defects and production issues, and provide hands-on testing support for high-risk changes.

• Promote innovation: Define risk-based testing for AI-enabled systems, covering output quality, consistency, robustness and data protection. Apply AI-assisted approaches where they provide secure, controlled and measurable improvements to test design, automation or analysis.

Required Skills and Experience

• Experience leading and developing test automation or quality engineering teams.

• Strong hands-on experience designing automated tests for backend systems, REST APIs or distributed platforms.

• Strong hands-on programming experience in C# is essential; JavaScript/ TypeScript experience is secondary.

• Ability to define risk-based test strategies and translate functional and non-functional requirements into effective test coverage.

• Strong understanding of Agile software delivery and close collaboration with developers and product teams.

• Clear communication, stakeholder management and analytical problem-solving skills.

Technical Environment

Core testing technologies include C# for test automation, Playwright for web UI and end-to-end testing, bUnit for Blazor component testing, and JMeter for performance and load testing. JavaScript/ TypeScript are also in use.

C#/ JavaScript Test automation frameworks

Postman SQL and data validation

REST APIs Azure-hosted applications and services

Gherkin / BDD Event-driven architectures

CI/CD pipelines

Preferred experience

• Insurance, financial services, fintech or other complex transactional platforms.

• Performance, resilience, contract, compatibility or security testing.

• Experience evaluating and testing AI-enabled systems

• AI-enabled testing approaches and tools.

• ISTQB or equivalent practical experience.

What we're looking for

A pragmatic, technically credible lead who can develop people, set direction and remain close to delivery. You will be comfortable coaching engineers, leading automation and working with technical and business stakeholders to deliver reliable software at pace.

About Vave

Vave is a technology-driven property managing general agent that combines data, science and precision underwriting to provide instantly bindable quotes for catastrophe-exposed property risks in the US.

Acrisure completed its acquisition of Vave from Canopius Group on 1 April 2026. Vave now operates within Acrisure Underwriting while retaining its brand and founding management team, and continues to expand its technology capabilities, products and market reach.