Senior Quality Engineer: Automation & Release Leader

Pearson; Annapolis (MD); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to drive testing excellence across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms, leading quality strategy, test planning, and automation initiatives. The role combines hands-on testing with leadership to raise release confidence and product quality.

You will mentor quality engineers, collaborate with product, engineering, DevOps, and security teams, and ensure accessibility, security, and scalability for learners and testing organizations worldwide.

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

Quality engineering

Automation

Test strategy

Agile methodologies

Mentoring

Education

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

Tools

Selenium

WebDriver

Playwright

Job description

Pearson is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to drive testing excellence across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms, leading quality strategy, test planning, and automation initiatives. The role combines hands-on testing with leadership to raise release confidence and product quality.

You will mentor quality engineers, collaborate with product, engineering, DevOps, and security teams, and ensure accessibility, security, and scalability for learners and testing organizations worldwide.