Senior QA Engineer - Cloud Security (Hybrid, Belfast)

Ocho; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Ocho is hiring a Senior QA Engineer for a hands-on role in Belfast. You will lead test strategy across multiple teams and build frameworks for services, APIs and UI. The position involves distributed systems testing across AWS, GCP, Azure and Oracle Cloud, with Kubernetes, Docker, & data stores.

You will work closely with Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Product and Customer Success to raise testing capability and quality standards. Hybrid work Tue–Thu in Belfast city centre is offered.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software testing or QA engineering.
• 2+ years leading test strategy for a team.
• Strong programming in Golang, Java, Python or TypeScript.
• Experience testing backend services and APIs (REST, gRPC).
• CI/CD experience; tests in containerised environments (Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience with cloud providers (AWS/GCP/Azure).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Residence in Northern Ireland.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain fast, reliable test frameworks and tooling for services, APIs and the UI.
• Define test strategies with each team, pushing coverage below the UI across unit, integration, contract and end-to-end levels.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines as quality gates.
• Address flaky and slow tests and reduce them in the pipeline.
• Write testing standards, examples and documentation adopted by teams.
• Coach engineers in testing through pairing, reviews and guides.
• Review test and production code with a testing lens and provide feedback.
• Build test data sets and cloud test environments for security findings accuracy.
• Contribute to performance, load and reliability testing against quality targets.
• Measure and report escaped defects and coverage to guide investments.

Skills

Testing experience

Test strategy leadership

Golang

API testing

CI/CD

AWS/GCP/Azure

Communication

CS degree

Northern Ireland

Education

Bachelor's in CS/SE

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Neo4j

ElasticSearch

TimescaleDB

RabbitMQ

REST/gRPC

Job description

Ocho is hiring a Senior QA Engineer for a hands-on role in Belfast. You will lead test strategy across multiple teams and build frameworks for services, APIs and UI. The position involves distributed systems testing across AWS, GCP, Azure and Oracle Cloud, with Kubernetes, Docker, & data stores.

You will work closely with Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Product and Customer Success to raise testing capability and quality standards. Hybrid work Tue–Thu in Belfast city centre is offered.