Quality Engineer

Innova Solutions; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 55,000; Part time

Job summary

Innova Solutions is seeking a Quality Engineer for a Mobile Scrum Team on a 24 month contract. The role is inside IR35 and up to £40 per hour via umbrella, with a hybrid work pattern requiring 3 days in the London or Sussex office.

You will join a multi-disciplinary team focusing on quality engineering, automation, and exploratory testing, delivering robust test automation and risk-based testing across mobile and API layers.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid understanding of Quality Engineering principles, including automation, risk-based testing, and defect prevention.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum teams with Software Engineers and Product teams.
• Practical experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests.
• Proactive ownership, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement mindset.
• Experience with WDIO or similar JS/TS UI automation frameworks.
• Appium for mobile automation.
• API testing and API automation frameworks.
• CI/CD tools and practices, particularly GitHub Actions.
• Test data creation and reusable test data management approaches.
• Automation reliability engineering, including flaky test resolution.
• Logs and observability tools for defect investigation.

Responsibilities

• Embed quality early in refinement, planning, design, and technical discussions to identify risks, edge cases, dependencies, and testability concerns.
• Apply risk-based testing approaches to determine coverage based on customer impact, technical complexity, change scope, and product risk.
• Identify and communicate quality risks early, including significant defects, coverage gaps, blockers, and emerging concerns.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to improve acceptance criteria, test stability, defect prevention, and overall engineering quality.
• Provide clear quality evidence by communicating coverage, defects, outstanding risks, and confidence levels to support informed team and release decisions.
• Build and maintain automated tests at the most appropriate engineering layer, contributing to API, customer journey/end-to-end, native mobile, and other relevant automation capabilities.
• Maintain automation health by investigating failures and improving flaky, unreliable, redundant, or low-value automated tests.
• Contribute to shared Quality Engineering capabilities by adopting and enhancing established approaches across customer journey/end-to-end automation, API automation, test data management, native mobile automation, and related disciplines.
• Perform targeted exploratory testing to investigate complex behaviours, edge cases, and customer scenarios where human exploration provides additional value.
• Use analytical and investigative techniques to understand issues, identify patterns, and support root cause analysis activities.
• Work closely with engineering teams during defect investigation and resolution to ensure fast feedback and effective remediation.
• Drive continuous improvement by developing your technical capabilities, sharing knowledge, and identifying opportunities to improve testing, automation, and engineering practices.
• Support a culture of shared ownership, learning, experimentation, and quality-focused engineering.
• Contribute to the evolution of quality engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across the wider organization.

Skills

Automation testing

WDIO

Appium

JavaScript/TypeScript

API testing

GitHub Actions

Exploratory testing

Agile Scrum

Root cause analysis

Quality advocacy

Tools

WebdriverIO

Appium

JavaScript

TypeScript

GitHub Actions

Job description

Quality Engineer (Mobile Scrum Team)

24 month contract

Inside IR35 – Paying up to £40 per hour via umbrella.

Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week in office in London or Sussex

Responsibilities will include:

Quality Engineering & Risk Management

• Embed quality early by participating in refinement, planning, design, and technical discussions to identify risks, edge cases, dependencies, and testability concerns.
• Apply risk-based testing approaches to determine appropriate coverage based on customer impact, technical complexity, change scope, and product risk.
• Identify and communicate quality risks early, including significant defects, coverage gaps, blockers, and emerging concerns.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to improve acceptance criteria, test stability, defect prevention, and overall engineering quality.
• Provide clear quality evidence by communicating coverage, defects, outstanding risks, and confidence levels to support informed team and release decisions.

Automation Engineering

• Build and maintain automated tests at the most appropriate engineering layer, contributing to API, customer journey/end-to-end, native mobile, and other relevant automation capabilities.
• Maintain automation health by investigating failures and improving flaky, unreliable, redundant, or low-value automated tests.
• Contribute to shared Quality Engineering capabilities by adopting and enhancing established approaches across customer journey/end-to-end automation, API automation, test data management, native mobile automation, and related disciplines.

Exploratory Testing & Investigation

• Perform targeted exploratory testing to investigate complex behaviours, edge cases, and customer scenarios where human exploration provides additional value.
• Use analytical and investigative techniques to understand issues, identify patterns, and support root cause analysis activities.
• Work closely with engineering teams during defect investigation and resolution to ensure fast feedback and effective remediation.

Continuous Improvement & Engineering Excellence

• Drive continuous improvement by developing your technical capabilities, sharing knowledge, and identifying opportunities to improve testing, automation, and engineering practices.
• Support a culture of shared ownership, learning, experimentation, and quality-focused engineering.
• Contribute to the evolution of quality engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across the wider organization.

You will need:

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain quality risks, technical issues, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand complex systems, identify patterns, and perform effective root cause analysis.
• Solid understanding of Quality Engineering principles, including automation, risk-based testing, exploratory testing, quality advocacy, and defect prevention.
• Experience working within Agile Scrum teams and collaborating closely with Software Engineers and Product teams.
• Practical experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests.
• A proactive approach to ownership, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• WebdriverIO (WDIO) or comparable JavaScript/TypeScript-based UI automation frameworks.
• Appium for mobile application automation.
• JavaScript and/or TypeScript automation development.
• Native iOS and Android testing and automation.
• API testing and API automation frameworks.
• Customer journey and end-to-end automation.
• CI/CD tools and practices, particularly GitHub Actions.
• Test data creation and reusable test data management approaches.
• Automation reliability engineering, including identifying and resolving flaky, unstable, or inefficient tests.
• Logs, observability platforms, and engineering tools used for defect investigation and root cause analysis.