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About the Role

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to define and lead the QA approach, automation strategy, and quality objectives for assigned products and initiatives. This role champions a risk-based, shift-left quality culture, ensuring test planning starts early and requirements are testable. The position involves producing comprehensive test plans, leading hands-on testing execution, and owning the test automation strategy.

Responsibilities

Define and lead the QA approach, automation strategy, and quality objectives for assigned products, initiatives, and releases.
Champion a risk-based, shift-left quality culture.
Establish and evolve QA standards, test design practices, automation principles, quality gates, and reporting.
Provide clear recommendations on test scope, residual risk, release readiness, and quality trade-offs.
Lead the analysis of requirements, specifications, and technical designs.
Produce and assure comprehensive test plans covering manual, automated, functional, and non-functional testing.
Design, review, and maintain high-quality test cases, test data, and test scripts.
Lead hands-on execution of system, integration, regression, smoke, exploratory, and acceptance testing.
Coordinate test activities across releases and dependencies.
Own and implement the team’s test automation strategy for assigned products.
Evaluate, introduce, and embed AI-assisted testing tools.
Design, develop, review, and maintain robust automated tests and reusable test utilities.
Work with DevOps and engineers to embed automated tests, quality gates, and actionable reporting into CI/CD pipelines.
Diagnose complex failures and defects; lead effective triage, support root-cause analysis, and verify fixes.
Provide technical leadership, coaching, peer reviews, and day-to-day guidance to QA engineers.
Partner with developers, product managers, architects, and stakeholders to resolve quality risks.
Drive measurable improvements to QA processes, test efficiency, automation coverage, defect prevention, and quality metrics.
Produce and present concise test status reports.
Maintain auditable testing documentation, evidence, and defect records.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
ISTQB Advanced, Test Automation Engineer, Test Manager or comparable QA certification is desirable.
7+ years’ experience in software quality assurance, including substantial hands-on manual and automated testing experience.
Experience in financial services or wealth management is desirable.
Strong test automation background, with proven experience defining and implementing a test automation strategy, building automation frameworks, and scaling reliable automated coverage across products.
Practical, hands-on experience leveraging AI-assisted tools to speed up testing.
Demonstrated experience leading QA activities for complex products or multiple concurrent deliveries.
Proven ability to coach QA engineers, conduct peer reviews, and raise engineering and quality standards without direct line-management responsibility.
Strong experience of smoke, regression, system integration, functional, exploratory, and non-functional testing, with a risk-based approach.
Practical experience working in Agile/Scrum teams and with DevOps practices.
Advanced proficiency with test-management and defect-tracking tools (e.g. Xray, TestRail and Jira).
Strong hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Playwright, Cypress or Selenium, and with API testing tools such as Postman, Swagger or SoapUI.
Hands-on experience using AI-assisted testing and coding tools (e.g. GitHub Copilot or AI features embedded in modern test platforms).
Proficiency in TypeScript, Python or C# for test automation.
Ability to review automated-test code and promote maintainable engineering practices.
Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, version control (Git), test-environment management, and quality gates.
Working knowledge of SQL and database testing, plus web, mobile, and API testing.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
Excellent written and verbal communication; confident influencing technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Collaborative, proactive, and resilient, with high attention to detail and a demonstrable commitment to quality.
Experience with Tosca, Salesforce or comparable CRM platforms (e.g. Dynamics) is beneficial.
Experience of performance, security, accessibility, or resilience testing is beneficial.

Skills

Quality Assurance
Automation Strategy
Test Planning
Manual Testing
Automated Testing
Functional Testing
Non-functional Testing
System Testing
Integration Testing
Regression Testing
Smoke Testing
Exploratory Testing
Acceptance Testing
API Testing
Web Testing
Mobile Testing
AI-assisted Testing Tools
Test Automation Frameworks
CI/CD Pipelines
DevOps Practices
Test Management Tools
Defect Tracking Tools
TypeScript
Python
C#
SQL
Database Testing
Risk-based Testing
Agile/Scrum
Performance Testing
Security Testing
Accessibility Testing
Resilience Testing
Salesforce
Tosca

Location

London
Edinburgh
Jersey
Leeds
Birmingham
Bristol
Manchester

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

7+ years experience in software quality assurance

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
ISTQB Advanced, Test Automation Engineer, Test Manager or comparable QA certification is desirable.

About the Company

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is a UK-based partnership, wholly owned by the private banking group LGT, which is in turn owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein.
Established in 2008 with an aim to offer a fresh approach to wealth management.
Has two other entities focusing on US and Jersey based clients.
Head office is based in London with a presence in Edinburgh, Jersey, Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester.
Focuses on putting clients first by providing a transparent service designed around their individual needs.
Draws together in-depth knowledge and experience from across the industry to provide a flexible, bespoke service.
Mission is to create long-term value for all stakeholders.
Culture encourages individuals to generate, develop, and implement ideas.
Core values include belonging, respect, integrity, conviction, and entrepreneurship.
Fast becoming an employer of choice in its sector with over £30 billion in funds under management and circa 700 staff.