Senior QA Engineer

Join an ever-evolving autonomous team as a Senior QA Engineer with experience in playwright within a international powerhouse with revenues well over 200 million that is trusted by various-sized companies across the globe.

Picture this: a team of passionate QA engineers innovating at the forefront of technology, crafting products that delight customers and stay ahead of the curve. 💡

🚀 You'll thrive in an agile playground, where creativity meets engineering brilliance. Together, as part of a team, you'll explore emerging technologies, deliver against the roadmap and help actualise strategies you and the QA team will think up. 🚀

Skills you’ll need:

• Highly Experienced in: Playwright or Cypress
• Test Design and Strategy: Proficient in various testing techniques and strategies, able to plan test approaches for features and select the most suitable technology.
• Quality Advocate: Balances quality expectations with delivery deadlines to ensure a high-quality product.
• Effective Communicator: Clearly explains complex technical issues to diverse teams.
• Team Player: Collaborates and supports colleagues across departments and teams.
• Solution-Oriented: Negotiates and compromises to find solutions that consider best practices, efficiency, and long-term maintainability.
• Knowledge Sharing: Actively shares best practices and promotes continuous learning within the testing community.
• Test Automation Champion: Advocates for leveraging tools and methods to improve test coverage and delivery speed.
• Data-Driven Quality: Analyses data to identify quality issues, gaps in coverage, user behaviour, and areas for improvement.
• Production Judgment: Makes informed decisions about the tolerability of software issues in production based on potential impact.
• Defect Management Expertise: Efficiently identifies, reproduces, and reports software issues, facilitating swift resolution.
• Prioritisation Skills: Triages and prioritises software bugs based on severity and impact. (This combines the two points about making judgment calls.)

Who you are:

• Quality Gatekeeper: Verify that fixes address identified defects or stakeholders accept the mitigated impact. Ensure releases meet quality standards and approve deployments.
• Acceptance Criteria Champion: Collaborate with the product team to define and manage acceptance criteria for features.
• Test Advocate: Maintain and update test packs, tools, and methodologies to ensure comprehensive testing.
• Non-Functional Testing Expert: Take ownership of non-functional testing, ensuring aspects like performance and usability are evaluated.
• Testable Requirements Author: Write clear and executable acceptance criteria for features.
• Testing Coverage Champion: Measure and track the effectiveness of both functional and non-functional testing.
• Delivery Lifecycle Focus: Maintain awareness of the entire product lifecycle, from concept to ongoing maintenance. (This combines the idea-maintenance point.)
• Continuous Learner: Manage your own training needs with guidance, attend industry events, and share acquired knowledge with colleagues.
• Collaborative QA: Provide cross-team QA support as needed and collaborate with other product teams.

With office HQs set in a fantastic Manchester tech hub and with various accolades received over the years, including a 4.9 out of 5 Google rating, platinum trusted service award & Corporate LiveWire award, it’s an excellent technical role with tons of scope for growth and huge projects you'll headline.