Senior QA Engineer

Arcadis; Glasgow; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our UK QA team. You will own testing across the lifecycle, collaborating with project teams, analyzing requirements, and delivering high-quality outcomes with minimal supervision.

The role emphasizes test automation using Playwright and TypeScript, risk-based coverage, and continuous quality improvements including AI-assisted testing approaches. Strong communication with stakeholders is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience leading or coordinating testing activities across software projects.
• Experience analysing requirements, assessing testing risks, estimating testing effort, and defining test approaches.
• Experience creating and maintaining formal, auditable testing documentation in contractual, client-facing, or regulated environments.
• Strong hands-on experience developing and maintaining test automation using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, and integrated systems.
• Experience writing and executing SQL queries.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to understand requirements, identify risks and define appropriate test approaches.
• Produce test estimates and contribute to project planning and delivery activities.
• Create and maintain formal testing artefacts, including Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Specifications, and Test Reports, aligned with contractual and regulatory delivery requirements.
• Ensure appropriate test coverage through risk-based testing, requirements traceability, and QA best practices.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test suites and supporting frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency and coverage through automation and AI-assisted solutions.

Skills

Communication

Stakeholder management

Requirements analysis

Test planning

Testing risk assessment

Test documentation

Leadership

SQL queries

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/IT or equivalent

Tools

Playwright

TypeScript

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior QA Engineer to join our UK QA team. The ideal candidate will be capable of working autonomously across the full testing lifecycle, from requirements analysis and test planning through to execution, reporting, and automation. The role requires an individual who can collaborate effectively with project teams and stakeholders, understand business and technical requirements, identify risks, define appropriate test approaches, and deliver high-quality testing outcomes with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will contribute to the continuous improvement of quality engineering practices, test automation capabilities, and the adoption of innovative technologies, including AI‑assisted testing approaches.

Role Accountabilities

• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to understand requirements, identify risks and define appropriate test approaches.
• Produce test estimates and contribute to project planning and delivery activities.
• Create and maintain formal testing artefacts, including Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Specifications, and Test Reports, aligned with contractual and regulatory delivery requirements.
• Ensure appropriate test coverage through risk‑based testing, requirements traceability, and quality assurance best practices.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test suites and supporting frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency and coverage through automation, tooling, process improvements and AI‑assisted solutions.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non‑technical teams.
• Experience leading or coordinating testing activities across software projects.
• Experience analysing requirements, assessing testing risks, estimating testing effort, and defining test approaches.
• Experience creating and maintaining formal, auditable testing documentation in contractual, client‑facing, or regulated delivery environments.
• Strong hands‑on experience developing and maintaining test automation using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, and integrated systems.
• Experience writing and executing SQL queries, with the ability to understand database structures and interrogate data for validation and analysis.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• ISTQB certification or equivalent.
• Experience testing within an Intelligent Transport Systems environment.
• Experience implementing test automation within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working within regulated or contractual delivery environments.
• Experience using AI‑assisted tools to improve testing, automation and the software delivery process.

Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.