Senior Quality Engineer — Shift-Left Leader (Remote)

Big Red Recruitment

Stratford-upon-Avon

Remote

GBP 54,000 - 66,000

Full time

2 days ago
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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

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.

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