Senior Quality Engineer — Remote Test Automation Lead

Pearson; Lansing (MI); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality strategy, testing, and automation across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE. You will drive automation maturity, testing coverage, and release readiness for platforms used by learners, educators, and testing organizations worldwide.

The role blends hands-on testing with leadership, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, DevOps, security, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in CS/Engineering/IS.
• 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 mentoring within Agile engineering teams.
• Strong 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

Automation frameworks

Education

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

Tools

Selenium/WebDriver

Playwright

REST APIs

CI/CD

SQL

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality strategy, testing, and automation across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE. You will drive automation maturity, testing coverage, and release readiness for platforms used by learners, educators, and testing organizations worldwide.

The role blends hands-on testing with leadership, mentoring engineers, and partnering with product, DevOps, security, and operations teams.