About the Role
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<p>Head of QA – £120k to £130k- 2 days per week in London** – Permanent</p>
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<p>Please note: This role does not offer sponsorship and requires candidates to have the legal right to work in the UK. ** Our client is able to be flexible on office requirements if the correct candidate is not based in London.</p>
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<p>La Fosse are excited to be retained on a genuinely transformational and global enterprise level QA leadership role; implementing strategy that will shift-left and test/futureproof quality of AI products on a vast and highly utilised B2B platform.</p>
<p>Therefore, you must have proven experience leading QA transformations and leading testing of AI products/technologies (as opposed to using some AI tooling for day to day testing). You will be joining a great and established senior leadership team – reporting directly into VP Engineering and CTO.</p>
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<p>Key requirements:</p>
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<li>Define and evolve organisation‑wide quality principles and testing standards</li>
<li>Assess and address gaps in the end‑to‑end quality ecosystem</li>
<li>Introduce and embed contract testing where it adds the most value</li>
<li>Uplift testing maturity across multiple product squads</li>
<li>Define and evolve quality assurance approaches for AI‑powered products, establishing practical frameworks for testing non‑deterministic systems (e.g. LLM‑driven features, RAG‑based search, agentic workflows)</li>
<li>Act as a senior partner to Engineering, Product, and Platform leadership, influencing roadmap decisions, architectural direction, and release strategy through a quality and risk lens.</li>
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<p>Interview Process:</p>
<p>1st stage = VP of Engineering & Talent Manager</p>
<p>2nd stage = CTO</p>
<p>Offer</p>
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<p>Please click on the link to apply</p>
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