Lead Quality Engineer | Osprey Flight Solutions

We're hiring — A Hands-On Engineering Role

Lead
Quality Engineer

Senior Software Engineer background (.NET & React) Reports to Head of Engineering Excellence Hybrid / Remote

This is an engineering-led role, not a test-scripting one. We're looking for someone who has held a Senior Software Engineer position or above — hands-on in our stack (.NET & React) — ready to roll up their sleeves and fix quality issues themselves, not just write scripts to catch them.

“We need someone who has shipped production code as a Senior Software Engineer or above — not a dedicated test-automation or Playwright specialist.” — Hiring Manager, Engineering Excellence

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Own Quality,
End to End

Osprey Flight Solutions provides market-leading risk management support to the aviation industry — built through a relentless focus on innovation and client success, combining the highest quality of human analysis with cutting-edge computing techniques.

As Lead Quality Engineer, you'll operate as a hands-on leader and enabler: setting quality standards and practices, evolving the test architecture, embedding AI into tooling and workflows, and coaching engineering teams to build quality into every stage of the SDLC.

The ideal candidate will have held a position as a Senior Software Engineer or above, with some experience in our technology stack (.NET & React), and be able to demonstrate where they've successfully implemented quality standards, tooling and processes.

Senior SWE+

Ideal background: Senior Software Engineer or above, hands-on in .NET & React

Quality Firewall

The framework you'll build and continuously evolve

AI-Driven Testing

Agentic test frameworks and AI-assisted test generation

SDLC-Wide

Quality embedded from design through deployment and observability

The Role

What You'll Do

Own the Quality Strategy

Define and own the quality strategy across the technology organisation, establishing standards, principles and engineering practices.

Agentic AI Testing

Evaluate, create and lead the adoption of a framework for agentic AI testing.

Quality Firewall

Develop and continuously evolve a Quality Firewall that lets any engineer contribute code safely and to a consistent standard.

Measure What Matters

Measure and improve the Quality Firewall's effectiveness through RCAs, support issues, development bugs and direct engagement with engineers.

Shift-Left Practices

Drive adoption of shift-left practices: design/TDA reviews, testability reviews, and risk-based thinking early in development.

Test Architecture

Design and evolve the test architecture strategy — what should and shouldn't be automated, and at what layer (unit, integration, end-to-end).

Tooling & Environments

Evaluate and introduce quality tooling (CI/CD quality gates, test frameworks, static analysis, contract testing) and ensure engineers have reliable, production-like test data.

Metrics & Improvement

Define quality metrics and KPIs (escaped defects, change failure rate, test coverage) and use them to drive real improvement.

Coach & Mentor

Mentor engineers across Product Engineering, DevOps and Data Engineering, championing a quality culture and strong ownership.

Is This You?

Experience & Qualities

Skills & Experience

Held a position as a Senior Software Engineer or above, with hands-on experience in our stack (.NET & React)
Comfortable writing and shipping production code yourself — this is a coding-first quality role, not a dedicated test-scripting or QA-automation position
Significant experience in quality engineering, including defining quality strategy, standards and practices across multiple teams
Strong knowledge of test approaches and architectures (unit, integration, end-to-end; contract testing; risk-based testing) and when automation is and isn't appropriate
Strong knowledge of using AI to accelerate quality engineering — agentic test frameworks, AI-assisted test generation, and measuring AI-driven quality improvements
Experience in compliance-aware quality practices, including traceability, audit trails, data integrity and transparency
Proven ability to embed quality into CI/CD pipelines via quality gates, test frameworks, static analysis and effective feedback loops
Experience defining and improving non-functional quality: performance, security, reliability and accessibility
Strong data and environment practices, including production-like test environments and reliable, anonymised test data
Coaching and influencing skills, with a track record of mentoring engineers and partnering with stakeholders

Personal Qualities

Curiosity — an almost insatiable desire to understand how things work
A can-do attitude: honest about limitations, and driven to learn new skills that add value
Confidence to speak up and share ideas, with the humility to take feedback and keep learning
Ability to deliver sustained value working independently, with little supervision
Flexibility, creativity and a proactive approach to problem-solving amid regular change

Why Osprey

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Empathy & Consideration

We listen closely and never miss the chance for a real conversation — with clients, and with each other.

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Transparency & Honesty

Be yourself, never stop learning, and keep searching for better ways to do the work — we'd rather hear the truth early than find out late.

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Responsibility & Accountability

Always do what you say you'll do and own your deliverables — that's how trust is built, across our industry, our peers and our clients.

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Humility & Respect

Everyone has a voice, regardless of job title. We give and receive feedback with gratitude, because we're all on the same team.

Ready to Apply?

Build The Quality
Bar Everyone Clears

If you want to define what quality means at Osprey — not just enforce someone else's checklist — we want to hear from you.

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A hands-on leader and enabler. Real ownership of the quality strategy, end to end.

LeadQuality Engineer

Own Quality,End to End

What You'll Do

Own the Quality Strategy

Agentic AI Testing

Quality Firewall

Measure What Matters

Shift-Left Practices

Test Architecture

Tooling & Environments

Metrics & Improvement

Coach & Mentor

Experience & Qualities

Skills & Experience

Personal Qualities

Why Osprey

Empathy & Consideration

Transparency & Honesty

Responsibility & Accountability

Humility & Respect

Build The QualityBar Everyone Clears

Lead
Quality Engineer

Own Quality,
End to End

Build The Quality
Bar Everyone Clears