Senior QA Engineer: Lead Automation & CI/CD (Birmingham)

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

Benefits offered by this job

10% bonus

8% employer pension

Job summary

VIQU Limited in Birmingham is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead testing quality within a Scrum team. This hands-on role involves defining test strategies, designing automation, and mentoring other QA Engineers while strengthening automation practices.

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

Qualifications

• Strong commercial software testing and QA experience.
• Hands-on Java and Selenium automation experience.
• Experience using or designing Page Object Model frameworks.
• Strong understanding of STLC and SDLC in commercial environments.
• Functional and non-functional testing experience.
• Commercial edge-case testing experience.
• Test planning, test design and execution capability.
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD.
• 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

Java

Selenium

Page Object Model

STLC/SDLC

Functional Testing

Non-functional Testing

Edge-case Testing

Test Planning/Design/Execution

CI/CD

Mentoring QA Engineers

Tools

Automation Frameworks

Job description

VIQU Limited in Birmingham is seeking a Senior QA Engineer to lead testing quality within a Scrum team. This hands-on role involves defining test strategies, designing automation, and mentoring other QA Engineers while strengthening automation practices.

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