Senior QA Engineer: Automation Lead for Low-Carbon Tech

VIQU IT Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 68,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visa sponsorship

Bonus 10%

Employer pension 8%

Job summary

VIQU has partnered with an organisation in the UK's low-carbon electricity sector to recruit a Senior QA Engineer. This hands-on position drives testing quality within a Scrum team while mentoring other QA Engineers and strengthening automation practices.

The role is based in Birmingham with two days per week in the office; visa sponsorship is available, and the salary is up to £62,000 with a 10% bonus and an 8% employer pension contribution.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software testing experience.
• Hands-on Java and Selenium automation experience.
• Experience with Page Object Model frameworks.
• Strong understanding of STLC and SDLC in commercial environments.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience coaching and mentoring QA Engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own quality and testing within your Scrum team.
• Define test strategies, plans and test cases.
• Design, develop and maintain automated test scripts.
• Work with the Principal QA Engineer to improve automation frameworks.
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Manage defects through investigation, resolution and retesting.
• Deliver functional, non-functional and regression testing.
• Support performance, load, security, accessibility and usability testing.
• Maintain test environments, data and documentation.
• Coach and mentor QA Engineers.

Skills

QA mentoring

Debugging

Analytical thinking

Tools

Java

Selenium

Page Object Model

Job description

VIQU has partnered with an organisation in the UK's low-carbon electricity sector to recruit a Senior QA Engineer. This hands-on position drives testing quality within a Scrum team while mentoring other QA Engineers and strengthening automation practices.

The role is based in Birmingham with two days per week in the office; visa sponsorship is available, and the salary is up to £62,000 with a 10% bonus and an 8% employer pension contribution.