Quality Assurance Engineer - Software Quality

Cirrus Selection; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus

Excellent benefits

Job summary

Cirrus Selection Limited is seeking a Software Quality Engineer in Bristol with hybrid working. The role focuses on shaping the quality processes within software engineering teams, supporting projects where failure isn’t an option, and driving continuous improvement across the lifecycle.

You will influence teams to deliver robust software while operating in a safety-critical context, with a strong emphasis on standards and assurance. A compelling benefits package applies.

Qualifications

• Experience in software development and/or quality assurance.
• Understanding of software lifecycle and engineering processes.
• Exposure to standards, assurance, or regulated environments.
• Strong communication, able to challenge and influence.
• Calm, structured thinking when things get complex.

Responsibilities

• Work with software engineers across the full lifecycle.
• Lead and support project quality assessments.
• Identify risks, issues, and areas for improvement.
• Drive best practice across processes, standards, and assurance.
• Influence teams to deliver better, more robust software.

Skills

Software development

Quality assurance

Software lifecycle

Regulated environments

Communication

Structured thinking

Tools

Audit tools

Configuration management

Requirements tools

Job description

Software Quality Engineer

Bristol, hybrid working

£40,000 to £50,000 + bonus + excellent benefits

You know quality isn’t just process. It’s influence. It’s judgement. It’s the difference between something that works and something that works when it matters most.

This role puts you right in the middle of that.

This isnt a role where you will be qualifying software, but a role where you will be shaping the processes and quality that software engineering teams work by.

You’ll be working with software teams developing complex, safety-critical systems, supporting projects where failure isn’t an option. Not policing from the sidelines, but embedded, influencing, challenging, improving.

If you’ve worked across the software lifecycle and want to step further into quality, assurance, and real engineering impact, this is a strong move.

What you’ll be doing

• Working alongside software engineers across the full lifecycle
• Leading and supporting project quality assessments
• Identifying risks, issues, and areas for improvement
• Driving best practice across processes, standards, and assurance
• Influencing teams to deliver better, more robust software

What you’ll bring

• Experience in software development and/or quality assurance
• Understanding of software lifecycle and engineering processes
• Exposure to standards, assurance, or regulated environments
• Strong communication, able to challenge and influence
• Calm, structured thinking when things get complex

Audit, configuration management, or requirements tools experience would be useful, but not essential.

Why this role

• Real engineering impact on complex, high-profile systems
• Clear development path within quality and assurance
• Strong benefits package, including bonus, pension, overtime and flexible working
• A collaborative environment where quality has a voice

You’ll need to be eligible for UK security clearance, holding current British citzenship.

If you’re looking to move from “doing the work” to shaping how it’s done, this is a role worth exploring.