Mobile Quality Engineer

Aberdeen; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary sacrifice pension arrangement

Private health insurance

Life Assurance

40 days holiday (FT)

Dental insurance

Health assessments

Critical illness cover

Will writing

Power of attorney

Financial Guidance and Advice

Holiday buy

Discounted gym memberships

Cycle to work

Interest free season ticket loan

Electric car lease scheme

Travel insurance

Personal accident insurance

Share Plans

GAYE (Give As You Earn)

Volunteering

Long service awards

Subscription to Interactive Investor

Subscription to Finimize

Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)

Parental leave policies (regionally)

Job summary

Aberdeen in Edinburgh is seeking a permanent Senior QA lead to shape quality practices across multiple agile squads. You will define testing strategies and guide quality standards while supporting engineering teams in adopting automated and exploratory testing approaches.

The role balances hands-on QA with coaching, enabling teams to improve coverage, reliability, and customer outcomes, including mobile and web testing, AI-driven testing, and CI/CD integration.

Qualifications

• Experience in manual and automated software testing, with understanding of when each approach is appropriate.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to coach engineers to improve quality practices and standards.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, JUnit or Postman.
• Experience defining testing strategies and working within agile, cross-functional teams.
• Experience testing mobile apps on iOS and/or Android.

Responsibilities

• Define test strategies and coverage across unit, component, API, integration, and end-to-end layers.
• Collaborate with engineers, designers and product managers to build quality into products from the earliest stages.
• Design and contribute to automated and exploratory testing for web and mobile apps (iOS/Android).
• Mentor engineering teams on testing best practices, CI/CD integration, automation, and shift-left quality.
• Drive improvements in testing frameworks, tooling, performance, accessibility, security, and resilience.
• Leverage AI-driven testing techniques to improve coverage, execution efficiency, and defect detection.

Skills

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Jest

JUnit

Postman

JavaScript

TypeScript

CI/CD

Automation testing

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

Jest

JUnit

Postman

BrowserStack

Maestro

Job description

• Based in Edinburgh, this permanent role offers the opportunity to shape quality practices across multiple agile squads
• Reporting to the Quality Engineering Chapter Lead, you will define testing strategy, guide quality standards and support engineering teams in adopting effective automated and exploratory testing approaches
• You will balance hands‑on quality engineering with coaching and enablement, helping teams improve coverage, reliability and customer outcomes
• This is an excellent opportunity to influence modern testing practices, mobile application quality and AI‑driven testing approaches while continuing to develop your own career
• Define test strategies and coverage across unit, component, API, integration and end-to-end testing layers
• Collaborate with engineers, designers and product managers to build quality into products from the earliest stages of development
• Design and contribute to automated and exploratory testing for web and mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms
• Mentor engineering teams on testing best practice, CI/CD integration, automation and shift‑left quality approaches
• Drive improvements in quality frameworks, tooling, performance, accessibility, security and service resilience testing
• Leverage AI‑driven testing techniques to improve test coverage, execution efficiency and defect detection

Benefits

• Salary sacrifice pension arrangement
• Private health insurance
• Life Assurance
• 40 days holiday if you work full time
• Dental insurance
• Health assessments
• Critical illness cover
• Will writing
• Power of attorney
• Financial Guidance and Advice
• Holiday buy
• Discounted gym memberships
• Cycle to work
• Interest free season ticket loan
• Electric car lease scheme
• Travel insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Share Plans
• Give As You Earn (GAYE)
• Volunteering
• Long service awards
• Subscription to Interactive Investor
• Subscription to Finimize
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Supportive parental leave policies , delivered regionally (e.g. 26 weeks paid leave in UK for primary and secondary caregivers)
• Employee discount site
• Discounted parking

Experience in both manual and automated software testing and an understanding of when each approach is appropriateFamiliarity with cloud platforms, ideally Azure, and CI/CD pipelinesAbility to coach and influence engineers to improve quality practices and standardsKnowledge of testing frameworks and tools such as Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Jest, JUnit or PostmanExperience defining testing strategies and working within agile, cross-functional teamsExperience testing mobile applications on iOS and/or Android platformsKnowledge of JavaScript and/or TypeScript environmentsExperience with device cloud platforms such as BrowserStackInterest or experience in AI-driven testing approachesExposure to mobile automation frameworks such as Maestro