Remote Senior Quality Engineer — Automation & Release Lead

Pearson; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality strategy, test planning, automation across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE, and drive release readiness and automation maturity. The role blends hands-on testing with leadership for a scalable quality program.

You will mentor engineers, partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Operations to ensure security, accessibility, and reliable delivery for learners and testing organizations worldwide.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of automation-first testing principles and quality engineering best practices.

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

Quality leadership

QA strategy

Agile mentoring

Automation-first testing

Test strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

WebDriver

Playwright

Gauge

REST APIs

Java

C#

CI/CD

SQL

Telemetry/logging

Accessibility validation

Distributed systems

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality strategy, test planning, automation across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE, and drive release readiness and automation maturity. The role blends hands-on testing with leadership for a scalable quality program.

You will mentor engineers, partner with Product, Engineering, DevOps, Security, and Operations to ensure security, accessibility, and reliable delivery for learners and testing organizations worldwide.