Senior QA Engineer - Hybrid, Birmingham, Impactful Tech

Interface Recruitment; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus up to 10%

8% employer pension

25 days annual leave

Bank holidays

Paid study time

Employee assistance program

Paid volunteering time

Job summary

Interface Recruitment in Birmingham is seeking a Senior QA Engineer for a hybrid role, two office days per week. The position offers £55,000–£62,000 depending on experience, and up to 10% bonus.

This hands-on role focuses on shaping test plans, building automation, and ensuring quality within a Scrum team. You’ll mentor other QA engineers, work with a Principal QA Engineer to improve the automation framework, and contribute to performance, security or accessibility testing where relevant.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience in software testing and hands-on test automation.
• Commercial experience with Java and Selenium, including use or design of a Page Object Model framework.
• A sound understanding of the software development and testing lifecycles.
• Experience of both functional and non-functional testing.
• The ability to investigate failures thoroughly, communicate clearly with developers and mentor other QA engineers.
• Experience with performance, security or accessibility testing would be useful.

Responsibilities

• You’ll be the voice of quality within a Scrum team.
• This is a hands-on role: you’ll shape test plans, design and run tests, develop automation, investigate defects and help engineers build quality into delivery.
• You’ll mentor other QA engineers and work with a Principal QA Engineer to improve the automation framework.
• Designing test strategies and cases from requirements and user stories.
• Building and maintaining automated tests, with a focus on useful coverage and reliable regression testing.
• Integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines and working closely with developers to resolve defects.
• Testing beyond the expected user journey, including edge cases, performance and other non-functional requirements.
• Managing test data, environments and clear documentation.

Skills

Test automation

Java

Selenium

Page Object Model

SDLC

Functional testing

Non-functional testing

Mentoring

Job description

Interface Recruitment in Birmingham is seeking a Senior QA Engineer for a hybrid role, two office days per week. The position offers £55,000–£62,000 depending on experience, and up to 10% bonus.

This hands-on role focuses on shaping test plans, building automation, and ensuring quality within a Scrum team. You’ll mentor other QA engineers, work with a Principal QA Engineer to improve the automation framework, and contribute to performance, security or accessibility testing where relevant.