Senior QA Engineer — AI-Driven Web & Mobile Testing

Resident Advisor; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous annual leave

Matched pension

Wellbeing initiatives

Staff social events

Volunteering allowance

Job summary

RA Resident Advisor in Manchester is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own test quality across ra.co, iOS/Android apps, and RA Scan. You’ll work across five product teams, maintain healthy automation, and test high-risk releases yourself. You’ll also mentor teams and leverage AI tools to improve testing.

You will contribute to test plans, review plans, and ensure tests align with product risk. The role blends hands-on testing with collaboration across developers and managers in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• Several years in QA or test engineering, typically four or more, testing web and mobile products.
• Hands-on test automation: built and maintained automated tests that run in CI for web and mobile.
• We use JavaScript, TypeScript, Kotlin or Swift for writing tests with developers.
• Ability to test APIs and verify data with SQL.
• Good judgement about risk: what to test deeply, what lightly, and what not at all.
• Experience using AI tools in testing and knowing their limits.
• Clear writing: bug reports and test plans that others can act on.

Responsibilities

• Keep the web end-to-end test suite healthy: fix flaky tests, add coverage for new features, and ensure failing suites are fixed quickly.
• Grow automated testing for iOS, Android apps and RA Scan with app developers so mobile tests run on every change.
• Test high-risk releases yourself, such as payments and checkout, including edge cases and failures.
• Review test plans and help teams improve them.
• Use AI tools to write and maintain tests, and guide developers to use them.
• Brief external testing partner and review results they send back.
• Report bugs clearly and track them to resolution with engineers and product managers.
• Track metrics like bugs reaching production and reliability of automated tests.

Skills

QA automation

CI testing

JavaScript

TypeScript

Kotlin

Swift

API testing

SQL

AI tools in testing

Bug reporting

Tools

Playwright

Cypress

Selenium

XCUITest

Espresso

Job description

RA Resident Advisor in Manchester is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to own test quality across ra.co, iOS/Android apps, and RA Scan. You’ll work across five product teams, maintain healthy automation, and test high-risk releases yourself. You’ll also mentor teams and leverage AI tools to improve testing.

You will contribute to test plans, review plans, and ensure tests align with product risk. The role blends hands-on testing with collaboration across developers and managers in a fast-paced