Senior Software Quality Engineer – Enhancements

Dayshape

Senior Software Quality Engineer working on customer-visible enhancements for an AI-powered resource management platform. Collaborating in a hybrid team to improve software quality and deliver better results.

Posted 4/30/2026full-timeEdinburgh • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £47,500 - £57,500 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Enhance and maintain both manual and automated regression testing suites, while coaching team members to build their skills in this area.
Oversee and manage test infrastructure, ensuring it supports robust and reliable testing practices.
Analyse, triage, and address issues identified in automated regression runs, contributing to continuous improvement.
Provide testing support for client hot fixes, leading reviews and retrospectives to uphold quality standards.
Develop and implement the quality strategy for your product engineering team, ensuring it is embedded in day-to-day practices.
Plan and execute comprehensive test strategies for feature and project deliveries, collaborating with engineers, product managers, and designers.
Maintain up-to-date test artefacts, such as test runs and statuses, and promote traceability throughout the development lifecycle by coaching others.
Contribute to root cause analysis for bugs and defects by documenting thorough reports with diagnostic detail.
Participate in planning and refinement sessions, helping the team to define clear and sufficient success criteria for deliverables.
Manage and coordinate release and go-live testing to ensure smooth deployment of new features and fixes.
Advise team members on effective test approaches, championing sufficient test coverage and applying a risk-based method to quality assurance.
Become a subject matter expert in the testing remit of your assigned team, developing strong knowledge of the user base to inform and enhance testing activities.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Proven history of creating and pragmatically improving team quality practices
Very skilled at performing exploratory testing on the front end
Excels at spotting details that others may overlook
Experienced with building and supporting automated tests, especially using Playwright
Knowledgeable in applying a risk-based method to quality.
Basic SQL knowledge, or experience testing data‑heavy features
Experience testing complex business workflows in SaaS products
Familiarity with modern development workflows (e.g. GitHub, Azure DevOps, CI pipelines)
Front‑end or API performance testing experience
Experience acting as the sole or primary Quality Engineer embedded in an agile product team
Experience using AI tools to support Quality Engineering work, with an understanding of their limitations.

Benefits

Comp & perks

At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development
33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days
Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement
Enhanced family leave policies
Private healthcare and rewards through AXA
Income protection and death in service cover
Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme
Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service
Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work
Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication
Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes!

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Hard Skills & Tools

automated regression testingmanual regression testingexploratory testingautomated testsPlaywrightSQLperformance testingrisk-based quality assurancetest strategy developmentroot cause analysis

Soft Skills

coachingattention to detailcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingleadershipcritical thinkingadaptabilitymentoringquality advocacy