Quality Engineer

About the Company

About the Role

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering Leadership
• Own and evolve the Quality Engineering and automation strategy aligned to productcentric delivery
• Lead QE activities across integration, system, endtoend, regression, and nonfunctional testing
• Act as the quality custodian, ensuring adherence to enterprise testing standards and quality gates
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching to QE engineers (onshore and offshore)
• Automation & Engineering Excellence
• Design, build, and maintain scalable automation frameworks across UI, API, and integration layers
• Drive shiftleft testing and testability across development teams
• Embed automated testing within CI/CD pipelines, enabling fast and reliable feedback
• Lead API and microservicesled testing strategies
• Champion the use of modern tools, lowcode/nocode solutions, and AIassisted testing where appropriate
• Delivery & Stakeholder Management
• Take full ownership of QE planning, estimation, execution, and reporting within complex programmes and product teams
• Produce key test artefacts including Master Test Strategy and Test Completion Reports
• Monitor and publish test metrics, quality indicators, and risk assessments
• Manage and coordinate thirdparty/vendor QE resources
• Work closely with developers, architects, product owners, and IT stakeholders to ensure quality outcomes
• Collaboration with Engineering Teams
• Work handinhand with developers throughout the development lifecycle to ensure quality is builtin
• Participate actively in requirements analysis, sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives
• Collaborate with developers to define test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and quality standards
• Provide continuous feedback on code quality, performance, and test coverage
• Foster a strong culture of shared ownership of quality
• NonFunctional & Performance Engineering (Good to Have)
• Take a leading role in performance engineering within product teams
• Support security, vulnerability, and penetration testing activities as part of the wider quality strategy
• Control acceptance of software delivered by external suppliers
• Core Skills (Aligned to SFIA v8)
• TEST – Functional Testing (Level 4)
• Selects and applies appropriate manual and automated testing approaches
• Designs and executes test plans and scalable automation frameworks
• Analyses and reports on test results, risks, and issues
• QUAS – Quality Assurance (Level 3)
• Supports audits and reviews of testing and quality control activities
• Assesses compliance with organisational standards and procedures
• BPTS – Acceptance Testing (Level 4)
• Defines and validates acceptance criteria aligned to functional and nonfunctional requirements
• Ensures systems deliver expected business outcomes
• METL – Methods and Tools (Level 3)
• Configures and supports testing methods and tools
• Maintains documentation and best practice guidance
• RELM – Release and Deployment (Level 4)
• Supports release planning and deployment assurance
• Maintains release processes and supporting tools

Qualifications

Required Skills

• Essential Skills & Experience
• Strong handson experience leading automationfirst Quality Engineering
• Proven expertise in API and microservices testing
• Handson experience with:
• Playwright (TypeScript / JavaScript)
• Karate (API & integration testing)
• Strong experience embedding automation into CI/CD pipelines
• Experience working in Agile, productcentric delivery models
• Strong SQL skills (Oracle or equivalent)
• Experience with source control and build tools (e.g. Git, Bitbucket, TeamCity)

Preferred Skills

• Good to Have
• Experience with lowcode / nocode automation tools
• Exposure to AIenabled testing approaches
• Performance testing and observability experience
• Security testing awareness (vulnerability / penetration testing)
• Productcompany background (vs purely projectbased delivery)

Pay range and compensation package

Equal Opportunity Statement