Senior QA Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Promote a shift-left quality mindset within the team; ensuring that risks, assumptions, and edge cases are addressed early on.

• Detect quality gaps in processes, tools, testing strategies, or collaboration, and convert them into actionable enhancements.

• Suggest, lead, and implement quality initiatives (such as risk-based testing, test plan definitions, and automation enhancements).

• Take ownership and continuously refine the team’s quality strategy, encompassing testing approaches, coverage, and best practices.

• Collaborate closely with PMs and developers during refinement, design discussions, and Three Amigos sessions.

• Oversee test planning for epics, features, and releases.

• Assist developers in becoming more effective owners of their own testing tasks.

• Cultivate a culture of psychological safety and constructive feedback when addressing quality issues.

• Create and implement test plans and test charters for new features, intricate flows, and high-risk areas.

• Conduct exploratory testing and aid the team in adopting structured techniques.

• Work with developers on unit/integration testing strategies.

• Contribute to end-to-end test automation, preferably using Cypress.

• Ensure the product remains robust in real user scenarios, including integration points and on-premises environments.

• Be accountable for ensuring that releases meet the established quality standards.

• Lead the documentation of quality insights, risk registers, and regression strategies.

• Proactively highlight quality issues with clear problem statements and recommended solutions.

• Monitor and communicate quality metrics to assist in guiding decision-making (not vanity metrics).

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in QA within contemporary software product teams.

• Strong background in exploratory testing, risk-based testing, and structured test design.

• Demonstrated ability to identify quality gaps, propose solutions, and spearhead improvements.

• Practical experience with planning and executing test strategies for complex features.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary and bonus structure.

• Generous allocation of share options.

• Comprehensive benefits package tailored to your region.

• Significant family leave provisions.

• 25 days of paid time off (plus additional public holidays).

• Flexible working arrangements.

• Funded learning opportunities.