FS Technology Consulting - Quality Engineering Lead - Manager/Senior Manager - Dublin

FS Technology Consulting – Modern Engineering – Quality Engineering Lead – Manager/Senior Manager - Dublin

General Information

Location: Dublin

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship: YES

Business Area: Platforms, Modern Engineering

Contract Type: Full-time – Permanent

The Team and the opportunity

At EY, we help clients address their most complex challenges and shape a better working world. You will join a globally connected organisation that combines leading technology, diverse teams and meaningful client work with the support and flexibility to build a career that reflects your ambitions.

Within EY Financial Services Organisation (FSO) Technology Consulting, you will work with experienced professionals to solve complex technology challenges for leading financial services organisations in Ireland. Our ambition is to help clients modernise their engineering capabilities, accelerate innovation and deliver secure, resilient digital services.

As part of our high-performing Technology Consulting team, you will combine hands-on engineering with client collaboration. You will help organisations design, build, and operate modern applications that support growth, improve efficiency, and deliver measurable outcomes.

Quality Engineering Lead, Modern Engineering

The role is to build and lead a next-generation Quality Engineering capability within our Modern Engineering/Platforms practice.

The role will define how quality is engineered into modern digital products and platforms from the outset, it is not a traditional testing leadership position.

The successful candidate will establish Quality Engineering as an integral part of the software engineering lifecycle, helping clients move from manual assurance and downstream testing toward continuous quality, engineering productivity, and intelligent automation.

The role combines:

• QE strategy and capability leadership
• Modern engineering delivery
• Client advisory and consulting
• Commercial growth and propositions
• Engineering talent development
• Innovation and AI adoption

Your key responsibilities:

Quality Engineering strategy

Define our Quality Engineering strategy as part of the overall Modern Engineering proposition.

Establish a clear capability architecture across:

• Quality Engineering
• Test automation
• API and integration testing
• Performance engineering
• Reliability and resilience
• Security testing

QE embedded within Modern Engineering

Work alongside Software Engineering, Platform Engineering, Cloud, Architecture, Data and AI leaders to establish common engineering practices.

Goal would be to increasingly work inside cross-functional product engineering teams rather than operate as a separate testing function.

AI-enabled Quality Engineering

This should be a major part of the role. Develop our approach to AI-assisted testing including:

• AI-generated test scenarios
• automated test creation
• defect prediction and analysis
• requirements-to-test traceability
• automated code/test review
• agent-assisted exploratory testing
• autonomous remediation

The ambition should be to move beyond simply using Copilot-style assistants toward agentic QE workflows embedded into the SDLC.

Client transformation

Advise engineering and technology leaders on moving from traditional QA organisations toward modern Quality Engineering.

Typical engagements could include:

• QE maturity assessments
• testing-to-QE transformation
• automation strategy
• platform modernisation
• AI engineering quality

The QE Lead should be credible with CIOs, CTOs, Heads of Engineering and engineering teams, not solely Heads of Testing.

Commercial growth

Retain a commercial element to the role, which explicitly covers revenue growth, pre-sales, and tendering. Own the QE growth agenda through:

• proposition development
• pre-sales
• RFP/RFI responses
• client workshops
• capability demonstrations

Develop repeatable offerings that can be sold independently or as part of larger Modern Engineering transformations.

Delivery leadership

Provide senior oversight for major Quality Engineering programmes.

Ensure programmes have measurable engineering outcomes rather than just traditional metrics such as test cases executed.

I would introduce measures such as:

• deployment frequency
• escaped defect rate
• automation effectiveness
• change failure rate
• engineering cycle time
• service reliability
• developer experience

That makes QE part of the engineering performance conversation.

Skills and attributes for success

To qualify for the role, you must have

• 10+ years across software engineering, QE, testing, or technology delivery
• Senior leadership of complex engineering programmes
• Deep understanding of modern software development
• Strong automation engineering background
• Practical CI/CD Security Gates & DevSecOps experience
• Penetration & Vulnerability Testing:
• API & Application Security Testing: security testing across APIs and applications, focusing on authentication, authorization, input validation, data exposure and common OWASP Top 10 (Open Worldwide Application Security Project) / API Security Top 10 vulnerabilities.
• Cloud-native engineering knowledge
• Experience designing enterprise QE strategies
• Strong client advisory capability
• Commercial/pre-sales experience
• Ability to operate with CIO/CTO/Engineering leadership
• Experience building and developing engineering teams

Ideally, you will also have

Suitable candidates should be comfortable discussing:

Java/.NET/Python/JavaScript | GitHub | Azure DevOps | Jenkins | Playwright | Cypress | Selenium | REST Assured |  JMeter/K6 | Docker | Kubernetes | Azure/AWS | Terraform | SonarQube | OpenTelemetry | Grafana

and increasingly: GitHub Copilot / AI-assisted development / LLM evaluation / agentic testing approaches.

What we look for

• A commitment to continuous learning and achieving your full potential.
• Energy, curiosity, and sound judgement, with the confidence to solve complex problems across varied client environments.
• A collaborative mindset and a commitment to integrity, respect, teamwork, and inclusion.

What working at EY offers 

We offer a competitive remuneration package. Our comprehensive benefits package includes support for flexible working and career development, and with FlexEY you can select benefits that suit your needs: covering holidays, health and well-being, insurance, savings and a wide range of discounts, offers, and promotions. Plus, we offer: 

• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues around. 

• Opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career. 

• The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that is right for you. 

All our employees are given a benefits package which they can tailor to suit their individual preferences. Our range of benefits include: 

• Pension
• Discounted health insurance
• Web Doctor – Free unlimited online GP consultations for you and your family
• The purchase of additional annual leave
• Hybrid Working
• Free Gym membership
• Travel Pass
• Maternity & Paternity leave
• Bike to work Scheme
• Recognition Awards
• Cash incentives for referrals
• Work Mobile
• Tech MBA paid by EY
• Wellness rooms available in some offices

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance. 

Career Progression 

• When you join EY, you will be supported to ensure that you are enhancing your skills from day one. 

• Continuous learning, where you can develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next. 

• As you grow and develop here, you’ll discover opportunities to help customise your career journey, so that it’s as unique as you are - success is defined by you, we will provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way. 

• Transformative leadership, we will give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs. 
• Diverse and inclusive culture, you will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs. 
• We have embraced Hybrid working at EY adding greater flexibility and autonomy to the roles of our employees. 

About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services, we are using the finance products, expertise, and systems we have developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities, and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Inclusion & Diversity 

We hold a collective commitment to foster an environment where all differences are valued and respected, practices are equitable and everyone experiences a sense of belonging: Inclusion, diversity, and equity are part of who we are at EY. We believe that the highest-performing teams maximize the power of different perspectives and backgrounds. These teams are both diverse and inclusive and are willing to invite and learn from other perspectives. Our ability to include various viewpoints into our mindsets, behaviours and operations is fundamental to driving innovation, building strong relationships, and delivering the best solutions for our clients. 

We recognise the strength that comes from having a diverse workforce and building a culture where we support all our people to achieve their potential. You will be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Reasonable accommodations are offered at every stage of our recruitment process. 

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible. 

IMPORTANT: Where Agency assistance is required, our Talent Team will engage directly with suppliers. CVs / Profiles should not be shared directly with Hiring Managers. Unsolicited CVs / Profiles supplied to EY by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.