Remote Senior Quality Engineer: Automation & Release

Pearson

Columbia (SC)

Remote

USD 110,000 - 120,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE, driving testing strategy, automation maturity, and release readiness while partnering with engineering, product, architecture, DevOps, security, and operations teams.

This role blends hands-on testing with leadership through influence, mentoring peers, and ensuring reliability, accessibility, and security for products used by millions of learners and testing organizations worldwide.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering required.
5+ years in QA, software testing, or test automation.
Experience leading quality efforts for web-based, cloud-hosted apps.
Strong automation, regression planning, and release validation.
Mentoring others in quality engineering practices.

Responsibilities

Lead test strategy and quality planning for new features and releases.
Design test approaches across functional, integration, regression, API, accessibility.
Build and improve automated testing coverage for web and API.
Perform hands-on testing for high-risk cross-functional initiatives.
Define quality gates and release readiness criteria.
Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis and retesting.
Review results and improve reliability and coverage.
Collaborate with product, engineering, DevOps, security, and operations teams.
Use telemetry and defect trends to improve quality practices.
Mentor quality engineers in automation design and accessibility.
Identify quality risks early and drive mitigation.