Senior Quality Engineer: Test Automation Leader

Pearson; Salt Lake City (UT); 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. You will drive testing strategy, automation maturity, and release confidence for scalable assessment solutions used by learners and testing organizations.

This role blends hands-on testing with technical leadership, mentoring peers, and partnering with product, engineering, DevOps, security, and operations to ensure reliability, accessibility, and security across web and API interfaces.

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

Test strategy

Automation

Mentoring

Quality engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Selenium

Playwright

REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Quality Engineer to lead quality across ExamDeveloper and OnVUE platforms. You will drive testing strategy, automation maturity, and release confidence for scalable assessment solutions used by learners and testing organizations.

This role blends hands-on testing with technical leadership, mentoring peers, and partnering with product, engineering, DevOps, security, and operations to ensure reliability, accessibility, and security across web and API interfaces.