Senior QA Engineer

Overview

In this senior, hands-on role you will own testing quality within a Scrum team and drive automation practices. You will mentor other QA Engineers and collaborate to strengthen automation across the CI/CD process. You will deliver comprehensive functional, non-functional, and regression testing while supporting performance, security, and usability testing. This opportunity sits in the UK’s low-carbon electricity space and offers meaningful impact through robust QA leadership and automation. You will work in a hybrid setup with two days in the Birmingham office and partner with cross-functional teams to ship reliable software.

Pay / Benefits

• salary up to 62,000
• 10% bonus
• 8% employer pension contribution
• hybrid work (2 days in the office)
• visa sponsorship available

Responsibilities

• Own quality and testing within your Scrum team
• Define test strategies, plans and test cases
• Design, develop and maintain automated test scripts
• Improve automation frameworks with Principal QA Engineer
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines
• Manage defects through investigation, resolution and retesting
• Deliver functional, non-functional and regression testing
• Support performance, load, security, accessibility and usability testing
• Maintain test environments, data and documentation
• Coach and mentor QA Engineers

Key requirements

• Strong commercial software testing and QA experience
• Hands-on Java and Selenium automation experience
• Experience using or designing Page Object Model frameworks
• Strong understanding of STLC and SDLC in commercial environments
• Functional and non-functional testing experience
• Commercial edge-case testing experience
• Test planning, test design and execution capability
• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD
• Experience coaching and mentoring QA Engineers
• Strong debugging and analytical skills
• Willingness to complete BPSS screening

• Mentoring and coaching
• Strong debugging and analytical thinking
• Collaborative communication
• Java
• Selenium
• Page Object Model frameworks

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