Senior Quality Engineer - Remote (US) Lead Testing

Pearson; Columbus (OH); Remote; USD 110,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality engineering across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms. You will shape testing strategy, drive automation maturity, and ensure release confidence while collaborating with engineering, product, DevOps, security, and operations teams.

The role blends hands-on testing with leadership, mentoring peers, and addressing accessibility, security, and scalability for learning and testing globally. Remote within the US with strong compensation.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of professional quality engineering, software testing, or test automation.
• 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.
• Mentoring within Agile engineering teams.

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.

Skills

Quality engineering leadership

Test strategy

Automation

Agile teams

Mentoring

Education

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

Tools

Selenium/WebDriver

Playwright

Gauge

Java

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Pearson is hiring a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality engineering across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms. You will shape testing strategy, drive automation maturity, and ensure release confidence while collaborating with engineering, product, DevOps, security, and operations teams.

The role blends hands-on testing with leadership, mentoring peers, and addressing accessibility, security, and scalability for learning and testing globally. Remote within the US with strong compensation.