Quality Assurance Engineer

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

Would you like to help enrich the lives of learners around the world?

At RM, we've been pioneers of education technology since 1973. We provide technology and resources to the education sector, supporting over 20 million students and improving educational outcomes worldwide.

What we do helps learners at all stages of their lives, from preschool to higher education and professional qualification; we partner with schools, examination boards, governments, and professional organisations globally to make learning more accessible, more engaging, and more impactful.

RM operates through three divisions: Assessment (digital assessment and marking solutions), Technology (managed services, hardware, and software for schools), and TTS (educational resources).

Within the assessment market we are experts in providing solutions for online exam testing and marking and the management and analysis of educational data. We work with government ministries, exam boards and professional awarding bodies for high stakes assessment such as GCSEs, ALevels, and professional qualifications. Each year, our software is used globally to conduct hundreds of thousands of on-screen tests and to mark millions of paper-based scripts. For over a decade we have been partnering with the world's leading awarding bodies to deliver intuitive, secure, and reliable e-marking solutions.

As a QA Engineer, you will play a critical role in ensuring the quality, reliability and accessibility of our platform by focusing on automation and collaboration. Reporting to the Engineering Manager of your team, you will work closely with developers, architects, principals, product owners, and other QA Engineers to deliver high-quality software that meets user needs and aligns with organizational goals.

This role is about embedding quality into every phase of development. From analyzing requirements and creating test plans to implementing manual and automated tests and validating releases, you will be integral to delivering exceptional software. Working as part of a cross-functional team, you'll ensure testing plans are robust, efficient, and scalable.

We take a data-driven approach to QA, using metrics and insights to continuously refine our processes, improve coverage, and guide decision-making. The scope of testing goes beyond functional validation, encompassing Accessibility, Performance, Scalability, and Integration testing to ensure our products deliver a seamless experience for all users under real-world conditions.

You will collaborate with the Principal QA Engineer to align with broader QA strategies and contribute to improving testing practices, tools, and frameworks. Your work will help ensure smooth, reliable, and secure user experiences, while supporting the team's agile delivery goals.

Visit our website to find out more: www.rm.com/assessment

A BPSS (Baseline Personnel Security Standard) is applicable to this role, therefore appropriate security checks will be carried out as part of the recruitment process prior to any offer being made.

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.

Experience

You are a QA Engineer who thrives on delivering quality software. You are passionate about embedding testing at the core of the development process, and you approach challenges with curiosity and a problem-solving mindset.

You enjoy working in agile environments, collaborating closely with developers and product teams to ensure quality is built into every stage. You are detail-oriented and proactive, always seeking ways to improve efficiency and enhance user experiences.

Skills and Experience

• 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.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail in identifying and documenting issues.
• 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.

What's in it for you?

At RM we have My Work Blend @RM which provides office-based colleagues with multi location and hybrid working options. As well as your office base, you can spend a proportion of your time working at other locations that suit your role and your life, including home, other offices, customer sites, distribution centres or on the move. We encourage you to discuss arrangements for this role with your potential line manager during the recruitment process.

As well as a competitive salary and our core benefits package which includes private medical healthcare, life assurance and a Group Personal Pension Plan with higher contribution levels available. There are lots of voluntary benefits too. You could buy additional annual leave, join our dental plan, sign up for a health assessment, or take part in our cycle to work scheme. You could even earn yourself an extra bonus for successfully recommending a friend or family member for a position within RM.

To better reflect the society that we serve, we're committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive and welcoming environment for all. To achieve this, we create teams of talented people from different backgrounds and experiences and strive to be a business where our people can bring their whole selves to work, we also want to make the recruitment process as inclusive as possible for everyone. Should you require additional support with your application or through the interview process, please contact us at [e-mail].

Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.