Senior QA Engineer

Pharmacy2U | Certified B Corp

Leeds

Hybrid

GBP 50,000 - 65,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare insurance at discounted rates

25 days annual leave

Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work and Green Car schemes

Exclusive discounts at The Springs, Leeds

Job summary

Pharmacy2U, located in Leeds, is seeking a Senior QA Test Engineer to lead quality assurance efforts across their technology platforms. This role involves making independent decisions on testing approaches and automating procedures for high-impact systems. Benefits include a competitive pension, enhanced leave, and health insurance. Join a company recognized for its commitment to colleague experience and social responsibility as a certified B Corp.

Qualifications

Strong hands-on QA experience across web and mobile platforms.
Proficient with automation frameworks and the ability to design tests.
Experience coaching less experienced QA colleagues.

Responsibilities

Own quality for complex product areas and make decisions on tooling.
Write, maintain, and review automation to a high standard.
Investigate issues across services and communicate risks clearly.

Skills

Independent decision-making

Emerging testing approaches

Clear communication

Hands-on QA experience

Proficient with Playwright, Cypress

Experience with TypeScript or JavaScript

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Job description

Senior QA Test Engineer

Salary: £ DOE plus extensive benefits. Contract type: Permanent. Employment type: Full time. Working hours: core hours 09:30 - 16:00. Location: hybrid schedule – 2-3 days per week in the office based at Thorpe Park, Leeds.

Do you want to work for the nation s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We are a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years experience, helping over 1.8 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day, and as a certified B Corp we also meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all. Our tech teams keep us running 24/7 to make sure all our patients get world class service. To support that, this role may include participation in an out of hours rota as required by the business. We operate fair scheduling process as well as additional compensation for all on call periods.

The Senior QA Engineer plays a key role in ensuring quality across Pharmacy2U s technology platforms, working within Agile engineering squads to deliver reliable, high impact systems for internal users and customers. With ownership of complex and high risk product areas, the role operates with autonomy and influences quality standards beyond a single team. Depending on where impact is greatest, the position may sit within a product squad or operate within a cross team enablement function, helping raise the quality bar across multiple squads.

What you will be doing

Owning quality for complex or high risk product areas, making decisions on approach, coverage, and tooling
Writing, maintaining, and reviewing automation independently and to a high standard
Contributing to test coverage across UI, API, and integration layers, applying tests at the appropriate level
Leading manual and exploratory testing on complex or high risk features where automation is not suitable or where capacity requires it
Investigating issues across services, environments, and teams when failures occur in unfamiliar or complex ways
Shaping acceptance criteria during refinement and identifying risk before development begins
Coaching QA Engineers and Associates through technical pairing, code reviews, and constructive feedback
Contributing to shared standards, templates, and ways of working, and influencing how quality is delivered across engineering
Reviewing pull requests for testability and coverage quality, not just the presence of tests
Bringing well informed perspectives on emerging testing approaches and applying them with sound judgement

Who we are looking for

Able to make independent, well reasoned decisions on coverage, tooling, and approach for complex initiatives
Brings informed perspectives on emerging testing approaches, combined with ongoing curiosity and a commitment to learning
Communicates clearly in writing and verbally, whether producing defect summaries, test strategies, or stakeholder updates
Communicates risk clearly and confidently to both technical and non technical stakeholders
Cares about the people impacted by what is tested, with a clear understanding that this means patients in this context
Brings strong hands on QA experience across web and mobile platforms, with a track record of owning quality for complex work
Proficient with Playwright, Cypress, or similar modern automation frameworks, with the ability to design as well as build automated tests
Experienced working closely with engineers, including reviewing pull requests and pairing on test implementation
Approaches testing with an automation first mindset and can clearly explain when automation is or is not the right choice
Experience coaching less experienced QA colleagues and values the development of others
Working knowledge of TypeScript or JavaScript and is comfortable spending time in the codebase alongside engineers