Remote Senior Quality Engineer — Automation Lead

Pearson; Sacramento (CA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead testing strategy and automation across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive API, accessibility, and end-to-end testing, and partner with product, architecture, DevOps, security, and operations teams to ensure release readiness.

This hands-on yet leadership role focuses on reliability, security, accessibility, and scalable cloud-based systems used by millions of learners and testing organizations worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/engineering/IS.
• 5+ years of professional quality engineering, software testing, or test automation experience.
• Experience leading quality efforts for complex web-based, cloud-hosted, or customer-facing applications.
• Strong knowledge of test strategy, defect management, regression planning, and release validation.
• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and mentoring within Agile engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead test strategy and quality planning for new features, platform enhancements, and releases.
• Design comprehensive test approaches spanning functional, integration, regression, API, accessibility, negative, and end-to-end testing.
• Build, maintain, and improve automated testing coverage across web, API, and workflow scenarios.
• Perform hands-on testing for complex, high-risk, cross-functional initiatives.
• Define and enforce quality gates and release readiness criteria.
• Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, retesting, and validation activities.
• Review automation and regression results, identify trends, and improve reliability and coverage.
• Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, DevOps, Security, and Operations teams throughout the development lifecycle.
• Use metrics, production insights, telemetry, and defect trends to continuously improve quality practices.
• Mentor and coach quality engineers in automation design, test strategy, accessibility validation, and release readiness.
• Identify quality risks early and drive proactive mitigation plans.

Skills

Test strategy

Automation

Mentoring

Agile teams

API testing

Accessibility testing

Security testing

SQL

Root cause analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience

Tools

Selenium

WebDriver

Playwright

Gauge

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead testing strategy and automation across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms. You will mentor engineers, drive API, accessibility, and end-to-end testing, and partner with product, architecture, DevOps, security, and operations teams to ensure release readiness.

This hands-on yet leadership role focuses on reliability, security, accessibility, and scalable cloud-based systems used by millions of learners and testing organizations worldwide.