Quality Engineering / Agentic QA

James McLaren

Quality engineering leader, 13+ years. Currently the sole automation engineer at io.finnet, running QA through agentic workflows built on Claude Code — nightly triage, root cause analysis, test generation, and fixing defects directly in the codebase. Built and led QA teams at io.finnet and YouView before that.

Edinburgh, Scotland — working remote

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io.finnet
Lead Software Quality Assurance Engineer
io.finnet ↗
Claude CodeAgentic QAPlaywrightTypeScriptAppiumQASEAllure
Jan 2026 – Present
io.finnet
Head of QA
io.finnet ↗
PlaywrightTypeScriptGitHub ActionsCI/CDBlockchainMPCSmart Contracts
Dec 2021 – Jan 2026
YouView TV Ltd
QA Manager
YouView TV Ltd ↗
SeleniumTeam LeadershipReact/HTML5 UIRelease ManagementConnected TV
Jul 2014 – Dec 2021
Accenture
Graduate Software Engineer
Accenture ↗
Software EngineeringClient Delivery
Aug 2011 – Jul 2014
Mastercard (Datacash)
Software Engineer Intern
Mastercard (Datacash) ↗
Software Engineering
Jul – Sep 2010