Quality Assurance Specialist, EU Team

Compass Education

Quality Assurance Specialist working with developers to ensure test quality across EU product modules in hybrid model. Focusing on E2E automation and maintaining QA partnerships.

Posted 5/7/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CypressJavaScript.NETTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own our E2E automation for our micro-frontends. Maintain and evolve the conventions, page object and component patterns, test data strategy, and how E2E fits into our CI/CD pipeline.
Continuously evolve automated test coverage across every module the EU team owns, including unit, component, API/contract, and E2E, prioritising based on risk and rate of change.
Partner with developers as embedded QA for new features and changes. Review proposed designs and implementations, walk through the developer’s happy path with them and pressure-test it, surface missed scenarios, edge cases, regressions, and risks, and sign off changes before they ship.
Convert sign-off into automation. Every scenario you validate manually should, where practical, end up as an automated test so the decision is preserved and the next change is cheaper to verify.
Own the test tooling and tracking. Evolve the tools we use to track what’s been tested, what’s covered, and what’s outstanding, and make that visible to the team.
Maintain and improve the suite over time, including flake reduction, runtime, reliability, and coverage reporting.
Raise the bar on testability. Push back on changes that are hard to test, and work with developers to design features that are easier to verify.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Commercial QA experience as a QA Engineer, SDET, Test Automation Engineer, or developer who has spent meaningful time owning testing.
Solid programming skills in C#/.NET or TypeScript/JavaScript, and an appetite to work across both, since you’ll be writing tests against the full stack.
Hands-on E2E automation experience, whether code-based (Playwright, Cypress, or similar) or low-code (Applitools Preflight, or similar). You’ve written and maintained E2E tests in a real product, and you’re confident contributing to the structure, patterns, and conventions of an E2E suite. You’ll have support from the wider engineering team as you grow into the role, and we need someone who can hit the ground running building and maintaining E2E tests on day one.
Mainstream unit and component testing tools across .NET and the JavaScript/TypeScript ecosystem.
A strong QA mindset. You’re comfortable challenging assumptions, exploring edge cases, thinking in terms of risk and coverage rather than just pass or fail, and saying “this isn’t ready” when it isn’t.
Experience embedding with a development team and acting as a quality partner, not just a downstream tester.
Confidence with Git, modern dev workflows, and CI pipelines.
Nice to have: Contributing to CI/CD pipeline improvements around test stages and gating.
Supporting test environment setup and data management.
Helping define and manage release tagging and git branching conventions for the team.

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days annual leave plus public holidays
Professional development budget for courses, conferences, and certifications
LinkedIn Learning & Udemy licences for everyone on the team
Hybrid working — home and our Dublin or London office
Regular team meetups across our Ireland and UK offices
Summer & Christmas parties
Private health insurance (Dublin)
A fun, collaborative team that genuinely enjoys working together
Pension contributions

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Hard Skills & Tools

C#.NETTypeScriptJavaScriptE2E automationPlaywrightCypressunit testingcomponent testingAPI testing

Soft Skills

QA mindsetrisk assessmentproblem-solvingcollaborationcommunicationcritical thinkingattention to detailadaptabilityassertivenesscreativity