Lead QA Engineer, Zeelo
Smart bus platform for commuting and school runs
Open for applications
Smart bus platform for commuting and school runs
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
Zeelo is the shared transportation service, on a mission to give everyone access to shared, personalised transportation.
Role
Who you are
- If you thrive in an environment where you can make a real impact, we’d love to chat
- Significant experience in QA roles, ideally in high-growth or product-led tech companies
- Strong hands-on experience with test automation for web and mobile apps — ideally using:
- Playwright, Cypress, Selenium (UI)
- Appium (mobile)
- Pytest, PHPUnit, or similar (API/unit testing)
- Familiarity with our tech stack: PHP, Python, TypeScript and SQL
- Passion for manual testing where it adds value — especially in exploratory testing and early-stage improvements
- Strong understanding of QA strategy, risk-based testing, and quality metrics
- Experience in Agile environments, with a proactive approach to embedding quality early in the development cycle
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills — able to partner across engineering and product teams
- Knowledge of non-functional testing (performance, security, etc.)
Desirable
- Experience testing across microservices, cloud-native systems, or distributed architectures
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and tools such as GitHub and Bitbucket
- Experience with tools like Testomat, Postman, TestRail, or Allure for test management and reporting
- Previous mentoring or coaching of QA team members
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Lead QA Engineer to lead the charge in elevating our quality practices across a modern, fast-moving engineering team
- This is a high-impact role — perfect for someone who’s both technically hands-on and passionate about building quality into the development lifecycle from the start
- You’ll work across our core stack (PHP, Python, and TypeScript) and help ensure test coverage across both web and mobile applications
- You’ll drive QA strategy, improve our automation capabilities, and help guide our shift-left testing approach
- This isn’t just about finding bugs
- It’s about building confidence in our product, driving quality upstream, and making sure we ship robust, scalable solutions at pace
- You’ll work closely with developers, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure quality is baked in from the start, while championing best practices and modern QA approaches
- We’re a fast-moving TransitTech business with plenty of exciting challenges—legacy code, evolving architecture, and new features that need rigorous testing across web, iOS, and Android platforms
- Lead the design and rollout of QA best practices across engineering
- Build and maintain robust automated test frameworks across API, UI, and mobile — with tools suited to our stack (e.g., Playwright, Cypress, Appium, Pytest, PHPUnit)
- Support data-driven decision-making — using test coverage metrics, bug trends, and release health to influence quality improvements
- Conduct high-value manual and exploratory testing, particularly where automation is not yet in place
- Owning system, integration, and E2E testing across multiple interconnected applications
- Collaborate with engineers, product managers, and designers early in the development cycle to define quality expectations and acceptance criteria
- Champion a shift-left testing culture by integrating testing into design and development phases
- Act as a mentor to the wider team in QA best practices
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zeelo provides a personalised shared mobility service for underserved areas using data analytics. The AI-powered algorithm allows the company to design routes that meet the needs of customers, so they can make the most of their travelling time.
The Zeelo platform integrates with an executive vehicle fleet of over 20,000 high quality coaches across the UK in order to serve demand. The company now carries hundred of thousands of customers every month with a focus on commuting services for private companies and large events.
With the shifting attitudes towards sustainability, Zeelo now provides services that use less energy and are more sustainable, which will appeal to the environmentally conscious. The challenge will be growing its niche, with stiff competition in everyday ride sharing from Uber and others. Volatile markets have been a source of tension too for Zeelo, which split from its previous buyers Swvl in 2022. However, this deal signified a positive for Zeelo, if not for Swvl's plans to penetrate new markets in Europe. Zeelo, it seems, has outgrown its buyers and enjoyed a Series A round in 2023, indicating that it can now stand on its own two feet.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jun 2025
$23m
SERIES B
Aug 2023
$14m
SERIES A
Total funding: $56.9m
Company benefits
- Team social events every month
- Great office spaces in London, Barcelona, USA and South Africa
- Ongoing training and development
- Hybrid ways of working
- Company-wide annual retreats
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
Leadership
Sam Ryan
(CEO)Previously co-founded Jumpin, a taxi sharing company for students. Jumpin was acquired by Addison Lee, where Sam worked as Senior Product Manager and then Head of Product for 2 years
Barney Williams
(CMO)Also co-founded JumpIn and joined Addison Lee, where he worked as Product Manager and then Head of Brand
Daniel Ruiz Giménez
(CTO)Held various engineering roles at Agilent, Telefonica, DMI and Golden Gekko
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