Senior QA Engineer
Waracle
contract
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Glasgow • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Senior
Tech Stack
AndroidiOSSDLC
About the role
- Define and execute robust test approaches for complex features, integrating automation and risk analysis to ensure comprehensive coverage
- Advise the team on quality, balance priorities effectively, and apply expert knowledge of SDLC and Agile principles to mentor peers in QA best practices
- Design, create, or extend automation frameworks for web and mobile platforms (iOS and Android), and integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Improve framework reliability, stabilise flaky tests, and champion clean, reusable code
- Lead defect triage sessions, drive prioritisation based on business impact and risk, ensure clear reporting and enforce traceability standards
- Actively mentor junior QA engineers, provide coaching on best practices, test plan creation, and tool utilisation for web and mobile testing
- Proactively suggest and integrate new testing tools and experiment with new methods to improve delivery
- Work as a cornerstone of project teams, owning delivery of QA for complex features and digital products
Requirements
- Extensive experience as a Senior QA Engineer, ideally within a digital consultancy
- Comprehensive expertise in QA best practices, standards, and methodologies (SDLC, Agile)
- Proven technical mastery in functional, non-functional, and white-box testing, including security testing fundamentals
- Advanced automation skills, capable of creating and extending frameworks, with a strong focus on code quality (Playwright experience would be an advantage)
- Strong mentorship abilities with a track record of informally and formally coaching peers and junior QAs
- Strategic mindset demonstrated through defining test strategies and ensuring comprehensive test coverage for mobile applications
- Strong problem-solving skills, including proactive defect management, triage leadership, and risk anticipation
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, ability to explain complex technical ideas simply and present confidently in team and client forums
- Ability to quickly develop deep understanding of new project domains and client sectors
- Must be able to work from the office at least 2 days per week (hybrid requirement)
- Visa sponsorship not available for this role (right to work in the UK required)
Benefits
- 27 days of annual leave, plus 8 bank holidays (35 days total)
- Company-matched 5% pension contribution
- Death in Service benefit (2 x annual salary)
- Medicash Health Cash Plans
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Group Sickness Cover
- Hybrid working (home/office) with home office setup budget
- Access to Udemy Business and dedicated learning and development budget
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Exclusive gym and retail discounts
- Enhanced parental leave policies, including support for fertility journeys
- Regular fun meet-ups and monthly office lunch
- Spirit of Waracle charitable initiative
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
QA best practicesSDLCAgilefunctional testingnon-functional testingwhite-box testingsecurity testingautomation frameworksPlaywrightCI/CD
Soft skills
mentorshipproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationstrategic mindsetdefect managementtriage leadershiprisk anticipationcoachingprioritization