Senior Quality Engineer - Automation Lead (Remote)

Pearson; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE, driving strategy, automation, and release readiness for critical platforms used globally by learners and testing organizations.

You will mentor engineers, shape testing approaches, and partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen reliability, security, accessibility, and scalability across cloud-based products. This role offers remote work within the United States.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, 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

Test strategy

Automation

Mentoring

Agile

Release readiness

API testing

Accessibility

CI/CD

Cloud apps

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Selenium

WebDriver

Playwright

Gauge

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE, driving strategy, automation, and release readiness for critical platforms used globally by learners and testing organizations.

You will mentor engineers, shape testing approaches, and partner with cross-functional teams to strengthen reliability, security, accessibility, and scalability across cloud-based products. This role offers remote work within the United States.