Test Lead – Quality Champion for Web and App Squads

About the role

As the Test Lead at MECCA, you will be the senior quality voice across five squads (three web, two app), embedding testing early in discovery and design. This hybrid role blends hands‑on automation, people leadership, and quality strategy to ensure performance, accessibility, resilience and automation are planned from the start.

Key responsibilities

• Guide and mentor a team of Test Analysts and Test Engineers across a 50/50 split of manual and automated testing.
• Participate in discovery and design conversations to identify quality risks early.
• Champion a shift‑left testing approach, planning for performance, accessibility, resilience and automation.
• Partner with the Automation Lead, Tech Leads and Product Managers to keep quality central to delivery.
• Own quality outcomes, balancing manual and automated testing as project needs evolve.
• Integrate observability tools and CI/CD pipelines to catch issues before they reach customers.

Required profile

• 5+ years of QA/testing experience, including time as a Test Lead.
• Proven people‑management skills across multiple squads.
• Early‑engagement mindset with strong communication and stakeholder influence.
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities in an agile environment.

Required skills

• Automation with Playwright.
• API testing using Postman.
• Observability tooling such as Datadog.
• CI/CD pipelines experience, preferably Azure DevOps.

What we offer

• Professional development programs and digitised learning.
• Health and well‑being initiatives.
• Reward, recognition, bonus and incentive programs.
• Quarterly product allowance and generous employee discounts.