QA Engineer

Norton Blake; Remote; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consultancy is seeking a QA Engineer on a remote basis with 1-2 days a month in London. The role requires extensive QA expertise, particularly in automation strategies and scalable testing frameworks. You will collaborate with engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure high-quality software delivery. The ideal candidate has strong programming skills in TypeScript, Go, or Python, along with solid experience in tools like Playwright and Jest. This is a 3-month contract with a daily rate of £425 - £475, outside IR35.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in QA with scalable testing frameworks.
• A high standard for software quality and user experience.
• Security and compliance awareness in testing processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain a testing strategy aligned with business needs.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to prioritize QA.
• Implement and scale automation frameworks for efficiency.

Skills

Driving automation strategies

Test automation

Strong programming in TypeScript

Monitoring logs

Tools

Playwright

Jest

Superset

Job description

QA Engineer, Remote (1 or 2 days a month in London), 3 months initially, £425 - £475/day (OUTSIDE IR35)

The Role

As a QA Contractor, you will work closely with other QAs, engineering, product, and operations teams to ensure high quality software is delivered with confidence. You will be a trusted voice for testing strategies, automation tools, and best practices.

Key Responsibilities

• QA Strategy & Governance: Define and maintain a clear testing strategy that aligns with engineering and business needs.
• Cross-Team Collaboration: Work with engineering leads, product managers, and stakeholders to ensure QA is a first-class citizen for all projects.
• Automation & Tooling: Select, implement, and scale automation frameworks, ensuring efficiency and reliability.
• Knowledge Sharing: Conduct training sessions and document best practices to improve QA awareness across all teams.
• Continuous Improvement: Track and analyze testing metrics, drive process improvements, and reduce testing bottlenecks.
• Testing Ownership: Empower engineers to take responsibility for their testing while ensuring a robust safety net through automation.
• Risk-Based Testing: Introduce a structured approach where test coverage is aligned with business impact and risk.
• Incident Management: Implement a structured approach for post-release monitoring, bug triaging, and root cause analysis.

Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience in QA, driving automation strategies and setting up scalable testing frameworks.
• A high standard for software under test and intrinsic regard for end user experience.
• Strong background in test automation, including tools such as Playwright, Jest and superset.
• Strong programming experience in TypeScript, Go or Python for test automation.
• Experience working with observability tools (e.g., monitoring logs, distributed tracing, and alerting mechanisms).
• Ability to define and track key quality metrics to measure and continuously improve the testing process.
• Security and compliance awareness, ensuring testing processes align with least privilege access and automated secrets management.