Senior QA Engineer

Lorien; Warrington; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £50,000

Enhanced company pension

Company bonus scheme

Job summary

Lorien in Warrington is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to ensure quality is built into every step of the product lifecycle. You’ll sit in a hybrid delivery team with Engineers, Product, and Design, shaping testing strategy and driving quality from day one.

This role emphasizes shift-left testing, exploratory testing, and data-driven quality improvements to enable fast, reliable releases. You’ll mentor peers and help raise QA standards across the team.

Qualifications

• Experience in shift-left, exploratory testing, and Agile delivery.
• Experience across API testing, SQL, and testability practices.
• Understanding of testing pyramid and risk-based quality approaches.
• Experience using data, metrics, and observability to improve quality outcomes.
• Proactive mindset with continuous improvement and team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Driving QA strategy and best practices within an Agile delivery team
• Ensuring tests are applied at the right level (unit, integration, end‑to‑end) for effective coverage and risk mitigation
• Embedding shift-left testing, ensuring quality is considered early in design and development
• Leading exploratory testing to uncover issues real users might experience
• Using monitoring, metrics, and logs to drive observability‑led quality and improve production outcomes
• Identifying risks early and helping the team make informed decisions
• Improving QA processes, standards, and ways of working across the team
• Mentoring QA colleagues and working closely with engineers to build a culture of quality
• Supporting automation strategies and ensuring the right tests are prioritised

Skills

Shift-left testing

Exploratory testing

Agile delivery

Observability

Tools

API testing

SQL

Testability

Job description

Senior QA Engineer - Warrington (Hybrid) - £50,000 + Bonus + Benefits

The Role

You’ll sit within a cross‑functional delivery team, working closely with Engineers, Product, and Design to ensure quality is built into everything from day one. This is not a \"test at the end\" role, you’ll shape how quality is approached across the full lifecycle, influencing design, delivery, and production outcomes.

The Opportunity

This is a role where you’ll drive a quality‑first mindset, embedding best practices, improving how the team works, and ensuring releases are both fast and reliable. You’ll help move quality earlier into the process (shift‑left), while also using real production insights to improve decisions (observability‑led quality).

There’s strong scope to influence how QA operates within the team, from testing strategy through to continuous improvement.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Driving QA strategy and best practices within an Agile delivery team


• Ensuring tests are applied at the right level (unit, integration, end‑to‑end) for effective coverage and risk mitigation


• Embedding shift‑left testing, ensuring quality is considered early in design and development


• Leading exploratory testing to uncover issues real users might experience


• Using monitoring, metrics, and logs to drive observability‑led quality and improve production outcomes


• Identifying risks early and helping the team make informed decisions


• Improving QA processes, standards, and ways of working across the team


• Mentoring QA colleagues and working closely with engineers to build a culture of quality


• Supporting automation strategies and ensuring the right tests are prioritised

What You Bring

• Strong experience in modern QA practices including shift‑left, exploratory testing, and Agile delivery


• Experience working across API testing, SQL, and testability practices


• A solid understanding of the testing pyramid and risk‑based quality approaches


• Experience using data, metrics, and observability to improve quality outcomes


• A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and team collaboration


• Ability to balance speed, risk, and quality to support confident releases

The Benefits:

As well as working within a supportive team you’ll have these perks available, and much more:

• Salary £50,000


• Enhanced company pension


• Company bonus scheme