Senior Quality Engineer: Automation & Release Lead

Pearson; Denver (CO); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sales incentive plan

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to guide QA across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms. The role combines hands-on testing with leadership to improve automation maturity, release confidence, and overall product quality for millions of learners and testing organizations.

You will mentor peers, drive testing across functional, API, accessibility, and end-to-end domains, and partner with engineering, product, DevOps, security, and operations teams throughout the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree 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 Engineering

Test Automation

Leadership

Agile Mentoring

Automation Testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering/IS

Tools

Selenium

WebDriver

Playwright

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to guide QA across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms. The role combines hands-on testing with leadership to improve automation maturity, release confidence, and overall product quality for millions of learners and testing organizations.

You will mentor peers, drive testing across functional, API, accessibility, and end-to-end domains, and partner with engineering, product, DevOps, security, and operations teams throughout the lifecycle.