Quality Engineer

Brown & Brown UK; Borehamwood; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday

Company pension

Professional qualifications funding

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Brown & Brown UK is seeking a Quality Engineer to own quality across squads, shaping testing strategies and championing a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll collaborate with Product Owners, Tech Leads, and Engineers to ensure scalable, reliable platforms built with quality at their core.

You will lead modern testing practices, mentor engineers, and drive data-driven decisions to improve test coverage, performance, and security across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Extensive QA experience including software development.
• QA leadership within agile environments.
• Experience in cross-functional delivery teams, ideally XP practices.
• Strong understanding of evolutionary architecture and fitness functions.
• Experience with AI tooling to improve delivery speed and quality.
• Cloud certification is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead execution of comprehensive test strategies across your squad(s).
• Introduce and champion modern testing tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Define and monitor quality metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and MTTR.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align quality goals with business objectives.
• Mentor and support engineers, fostering ownership and continuous improvement.
• Lead exploratory, automation, performance, and security testing initiatives.
• Promote agile and lean principles to enhance delivery and adaptability.
• Provide clear and transparent communication on quality status and improvement plans.
• Drive continuous improvement through data insights and actionable changes.
• Support cross-functional testing including accessibility, usability, and availability.
• Ensure strong CI/CD practices and evolve testing approaches across architectures.
• Establish dashboards and reporting to visualise quality trends and performance.

Skills

QA leadership

Quality assurance

Agile delivery

Cross-functional teams

Problem solving

Tools

Automation tooling

CI/CD tools

AI tooling

Job description

At Brown & Brown (Europe), quality isn't just a checkpoint, it’s a mindset. As a Quality Engineer, you'll play a key role within our cross-functional delivery squads, championing quality across the full software lifecycle. You’ll help shape testing strategies, drive innovation, and support others in embedding quality into everything we build. If you're passionate about agile delivery, data-driven decision making, and continuous improvement, this is an opportunity to make a real and lasting impact.

The day to day:

You’ll take ownership of quality engineering within your squad(s), working closely with Product Owners, Tech Leads, and Engineers to ensure our platforms are scalable, reliable, and built with quality at their core.

You’ll define and execute testing strategies, introduce modern tools and practices, and promote a culture of ownership, innovation, and continuous learning.

Key Responsibilities

Develop and lead execution of comprehensive test strategies across your squad(s).

• Introduce and champion modern testing tools, frameworks, and practices.
• Define and monitor key quality metrics such as defect density, test coverage, and mean time to recovery.
• Collaborate with Product Owners and Tech Leads to align quality goals with business objectives.
• Mentor and support engineers, fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Lead exploratory, automation, performance, and security testing initiatives.
• Promote agile and lean principles to enhance delivery and adaptability.
• Provide clear and transparent communication on quality status and improvement plans.
• Drive continuous improvement through data insights and actionable changes.
• Support cross-functional testing including accessibility, usability, and availability.
• Ensure strong CI/CD practices and evolve testing approaches across architectural environments.
• Establish dashboards and reporting to visualise quality trends and performance.

About you:

You are a proactive and quality-focused individual who thrives in a collaborative, agile environment. You take ownership of your work, enjoy solving problems, and are always looking for ways to improve how things are done. You bring a strong customer focus and are passionate about delivering high-quality software that meets user needs.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in quality assurance, including software development.
• Experience of QA leadership experience within agile environments.
• Experience working within cross-functional delivery teams, ideally using Extreme Programming practices.
• Strong understanding of evolutionary architecture and fitness functions.
• Experience with AI tooling and its application to improve speed and quality in delivery is advantageous.
• Cloud certification is beneficial.

The rewards:

• A negotiable basic salary and all the normal benefits you’d expect (Holiday, company pension etc.)
• A collaborative, open and honest environment that is designed to deliver the best outcomes to our clients and staff
• An environment built around supporting and developing our staff with funding available for relevant professional qualifications.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We take pride in the diversity of our team and seek diversity in our applicants.