Senior QA Engineer

ZipRecruiter; England; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading InsurTech company is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to enhance their quality engineering practices. This role involves driving testing strategies, influencing engineering decisions, and ensuring production readiness. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background and be a champion for quality across teams, with opportunities for career progression in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

15% bonus

10% pension

Private healthcare & critical illness cover

Free parking

Well-structured career progression pathways

Qualifications

• Experience at Senior or Lead level as an IC.
• Hands-on experience with performance testing tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous integration and delivery.
• Implement robust testing strategy across the test pyramid.
• Act as a quality champion promoting best practices.

Skills

Influencing

Communication

Quality Assurance

CI/CD

API Automation

Tools

K6

JMeter

TypeScript

Java

C#

Job description

Job Description

Role: Senior QA Engineer

Salary: £85,000

Total Package: £106,250

Industry: Financial Services

Working Model: Hybrid (2 days onsite)

About the Company

Wedo has partnered with an innovative InsurTech company looking to hire a Senior QA Engineer to join their 60-strong QE community of practice.

Our client is building cutting-edge software leveraging SaaS, Cloud, Data Management, Analytics, AI, and Machine Learning. This is a Greenfield SaaS solution, offering the opportunity to take ownership of test infrastructure, tooling, and services from the ground up.

About the Role

They’re looking for a technical QA leader with a quality-first mindset, someone who sees the bigger picture and understands the customer impact of engineering decisions.

You’ll be responsible for driving continuous integration and delivery, implementing a robust testing strategy across the test pyramid, and reducing reliance on large end-to-end (E2E) tests. As the product moves into production, your focus will shift toward production readiness, owning testing across observability tooling, security validation, recovery procedures, performance & load testing, and disaster recovery planning.

You’ll be the voice of risk in engineering, able to assess, articulate, and influence decisions around test-related risk, and make clear judgments on what is and isn’t acceptable.

You’ll act as a quality champion: running workshops, upskilling teams, promoting best practices, influencing engineering culture, and leading efforts to increase non-functional test coverage.

The right person will be equally confident in functional and non-functional areas—this is not a pure performance testing role.

Experience Needed

• You’ve operated at a Senior or Lead level as an IC for some time and enjoy being hands-on while also enabling others.
• You can write code in multiple languages, ideally TypeScript, Java, or C#.
• Your top skill is your ability to influence, communicate, and win hearts and minds in defence of quality.
• You have strong experience with CI/CD, monitoring, and alerting, working closely with DevOps teams.
• You bring solid experience with Microservices and API automation at an enterprise level.
• You have recent hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as K6 or JMeter.

Benefits

• 15% bonus
• 10% pension
• Private healthcare & critical illness cover
• Free parking (5-minute walk from the train station)
• Well-structured career progression pathways

Interview Process

• 30-minute first-stage interview with the QA Manager
• 1-hour architecture exercise
• 1-hour final interview with the Engineering Manager & Director of QA

Interested?

Apply now via Quick Apply, connect with Jack Cole on LinkedIn with a message and your CV, or send your CV directly to [e-mail] and highlight why you're suited for this role.

Please include your desired salary, location, right to work in the UK, and available times for a call.

Good luck with your application.