Hybrid QA Engineer: Automation & Accessibility

RM Education; Abingdon; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical healthcare

Life assurance

Group Personal Pension Plan

Job summary

RM Education is seeking a QA Engineer to embed testing at every stage of development, focusing on automation and collaboration across cross-functional teams. You will design and implement automated tests for frontend, backend, and APIs, while maintaining alignment with GDPR and WCAG standards in a fast-paced agile environment.

The role supports hybrid working arrangements with a competitive benefits package including private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan.

Qualifications

• Professional experience in software quality assurance/testing within an agile software development environment.
• Experience of both manual and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with automation frameworks (Playwright or Cypress). We use Playwright with focus on code-based testing in TypeScript.
• Proficiency in testing frontend, backend, and APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and integrating tests into continuous delivery workflows.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Familiarity with industry compliance standards (e.g., GDPR) and their impact on testing.
• Previous specialist experience with accessibility and performance with WCAG desirable.
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
• A continuous learning mindset, staying updated on emerging tools, technologies, and practices.
• Ability to assess risk and determine appropriate levels of testing rather than relying solely on predefined test scripts.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers and product owners to understand requirements, identify edge cases, and define the definition of done.
• Design, implement, and maintain automated test suites for frontend, backend, and API testing.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines to enable continuous delivery.
• Perform functional, integration, and regression testing and exploratory testing as appropriate.
• Monitor and analyse test results, troubleshooting and resolving issues to ensure delivery timelines are met.
• Document and report defects, ensuring timely resolution through collaboration with developers.
• Align with the Principal QA Engineer on testing frameworks, strategies, and best practices.
• Ensure testing aligns with organizational compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, WCAG).
• Contribute to continuous improvement efforts, refining processes and tools to enhance efficiency.
• Contribute to acceptance criteria, requirements and solution design to ensure testability and quality are considered from the outset.
• Support customer and business acceptance testing.
• Maintain appropriate test environments, data and tooling.
• Share QA knowledge and establish consistent quality practices across engineering teams.

Skills

Automation testing

Manual testing

Playwright

Cypress

API testing

TypeScript

CI/CD

Agile

Accessibility testing

Performance testing

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

TypeScript

CI/CD tools

Job description

RM Education is seeking a QA Engineer to embed testing at every stage of development, focusing on automation and collaboration across cross-functional teams. You will design and implement automated tests for frontend, backend, and APIs, while maintaining alignment with GDPR and WCAG standards in a fast-paced agile environment.

The role supports hybrid working arrangements with a competitive benefits package including private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan.