Lead Quality Engineer

?? Lead Quality Engineer ?? Leeds / Manchester / Bruntingthorpe (Hybrid)?? Cox Automotive Europe – Enterprise Technology ?? About the Role We’re looking for a Lead Quality Engineer to shape and lead quality engineering across a major transformation programme within our Manheim Vehicle Services (MVS) platform. This is a high-impact leadership role where you’ll guide teams through the evolution from a legacy .NET monolith to a modern, cloud-native AWS architecture—while redefining how quality works in an AI-assisted development world. You’ll combine hands-on engineering expertise, strategic thinking, and people leadership to ensure we build software that is reliable, secure, and built to last. ?? What You’ll Be Doing ?? Lead & Grow the QE Function Lead, coach, and develop a team of Test Engineers and Analysts Set the vision and standards for quality engineering Act as a champion for quality across engineering and product ?? Own Quality in an AI-Driven Engineering Environment Define quality guardrails for AI-generated and AI-assisted code Evolve practices for testing, validation, and review Shape how we maintain confidence in increasingly automated delivery ?? Drive Strategy & Delivery Own and deliver the QA strategy and roadmap Define approaches across:Functional and exploratory testing Performance, security, and resilience Lead automation strategy and tooling decisions Provide clear, risk-based input into release decisions ?? Modernise Quality Engineering Work across both legacy and modern platforms Embed BDD and spec-driven development practices Drive measurable improvements via metrics and KPIs ??? Our Tech Landscape You’ll operate across a modern, evolving stack: Cloud: AWS Backend: .NET / .NET Core Frontend: React Containers: Docker, EKS, ECS Data: Aurora, DynamoDB, DocumentDB Messaging: Kafka, S Salary: Competitive Salary, Bonus & Benefits