Senior Quality Engineer — Remote Automation Leader

Pearson; Augusta (ME); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms, driving testing strategy, automation maturity, and release confidence for globally used assessment technologies.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product and DevOps teams, and shape quality from feature planning to production, including accessibility, security, and scalability concerns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/engineering or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years in quality engineering, software testing, or test automation.
• Experience leading quality efforts for complex web/cloud apps.
• Strong knowledge of test strategy, defect management, and release validation.
• Mentoring experience within Agile teams.
• Automation-first testing principles and 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

Agile guidance

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Selenium/WebDriver

Playwright

Gauge

REST APIs

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms, driving testing strategy, automation maturity, and release confidence for globally used assessment technologies.

You will mentor engineers, partner with product and DevOps teams, and shape quality from feature planning to production, including accessibility, security, and scalability concerns.