Senior QA Engineer

Senior QA Engineer

• Location | Workplace Policy: Hybrid working with 2 days a week in a modern Manchester office
• Salary: Up to £60k + perks (depending on experience)

COMPANY: A FTSE250 mission-led platform retailer helping consumers with over 2 mill users, including partnerships with some of the biggest retail brands on the marketplace today.

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior QA enthusiast who will be responsible for developing, implementing, and collaborating on the creation of a QA Strategy. Autonomy, great company culture and cutting-edge technology await anyone that joins our client with the role being perfect for someone looking to help headline testing projects that will have massive impact on the business both now and long term.

Senior QA Engineer – Responsibilities:

• Ensure test planning is conducted on all new features
• Help headline the brand’s entire QA Strategy and continually look to optimise it
• Support the automated execution of API and web/mobile application UI tests through test data
• Create and maintain acceptance tests that focus on UI and implement them in CI/CD pipelines for execution
• Performing manual execution of Regression testing on areas not covered by automation
• Ensure relevant documentation is maintained
• Communicate regularly with the Head of QA on testing progress
• Ensure defects, issues are dealt with through automated API or UI testing
• Regularly updating Engineering and Product teams on testing activities
• Continually look to improve processes and implement new strategies

Ideal applicant:

• A QA advocate that has past experience applying QA across software dev lifecycles
• Comfortable occasionally mentoring and offering advice to less junior members
• Experienced with JIRA, Shortcut
• Skilled with Cypress or equivalent test automation tool for web-application frontend testing
• Familiar with Detox, Appium, Behat, Cucumber & Gitlab
• Commercially savvy with a finger to the pulse of what consumers and businesses want
• Excellent stakeholder that can influence across all levels.

Key Perks:

• Share options
• 23 days annual leave, plus one for each year served (capped at 26)
• Birthday leave
• Flexible start hours 06:30 - 10:30 am
• Training and conference budget
• Life assurance plans
• Virtual GP appointments for you and your family
• 24/7 helpline for physical and mental health support, counselling, and other well-being resources
• Private Medical Insurance
• Hybrid working between home and office

Want to be part of the journey?

We are looking for a real go-getter for this role. You must be meticulous in your approach and highly driven you will have a proven track record of success.

Apply today with your CV / Linkedin profile and we look forward to discussing more with you.