Senior Quality Engineer

Big Red Recruitment; Stratford-upon-Avon; Remote; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

34 days holiday

Private healthcare

Job summary

Big Red Recruitment is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer for a fully remote role in the United Kingdom. You will coach developers to own quality, build the test framework, and sign off releases, driving shift-left and modern quality practices across several engineering teams.

Ideal candidates will have hands-on test automation experience with Playwright, Selenium or Cypress, plus a coding background and strong communication to influence developers.

Qualifications

• Experience coaching teams on shift-left in software development.
• Hands-on test automation using Playwright, Selenium or Cypress.
• Practical experience using AI tools to speed testing.
• Excellent communication with developers to influence quality.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Coach developers through stories, agreeing where tests are needed.
• Help embed shift-left and modern quality practices across several teams.
• Build and maintain the test framework, and work with DevOps on fast pipeline feedback.
• Review Playwright tests written by developers and check they assert the right things.
• Bring releases together, sign them off and investigate defects.
• Identify where AI can speed up testing and implement it in the QE team.

Skills

Quality coaching/shift-left

Playwright/Selenium/Cypress

AI in testing

Strong communication

CI/CD pipelines

Tools

Playwright

Selenium

Cypress

Job description

Tired of developers not taking quality assurace seriously? Want to use your technical expertise to help not only work hands on but help coach and train?

You'll join a long established UK based SaaS business whose developers have taken an AI lead approach. Some are now three to five times more productive. That has created a new problem: testing can't keep up so they are changing how quality works, and they want a Senior Quality Engineer who has done shift-left before to help lead it.

You will coach developers to own quality, build the framework their tests run in and sign off releases as a whole. This is a quality engineering role for someone who would rather raise the standard across a team than be the gate at the end.

What you will do

• Coach developers through stories, agreeing where tests are needed and where existing coverage is enough
• Help the Lead QE embed shift-left and modern quality practices across several engineering teams
• Build and maintain the test framework, and work with DevOps on fast pipeline feedback
• Review Playwright tests written by developers and check they assert the right things
• Bring releases together, sign them off and dig into any escaped defects
• Find where AI can speed up testing, and help the QE team use it

Essential skills

• Quality coaching or shift-left experience in a software team
• Test automation with Playwright, Selenium or Cypress, or a coding background such as a development role or computer science degree
• Proven, practical use of AI tools in testing
• Strong communication and the credibility to influence developers
• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines

The role is fully remote with a top end salary of £60,000 + benefits like 34 days holiday, and prive healthcare.

The successful candidate must have permanent residency in the UK (British Citizenship or ILR). Unfortunately, candidates who do not meet this criteria will not be considered.