Senior Technical Test Engineer

Overview

As a Senior Technical Test Engineer, you contribute to product quality within an IT product team and across change projects. You design testing strategies, coordinate testers, and drive testing deliverables through both Agile and Waterfall lifecycles. You work with cross-functional groups to analyse requirements, create detailed test cases, and execute tests, including automation efforts. This hybrid Glasgow role supports a global, innovative firm shaping technology-led transformation.

Pay / Benefits

• Flexible work options
• Health and wellbeing benefits, gym membership, discounted corporate health plans
• Career advancement - client secondment opportunities, global opportunities, learning & development programs

Responsibilities

• Deliver testing deliverables on change projects using established methods
• Coordinate testing activities and guide junior testers while managing up where needed
• Adhere to testing processes across Waterfall projects
• Participate in Agile ceremonies (planning, standups, retrospectives)
• Analyse inputs from business and technical requirements
• Prepare detailed test conditions and scripts
• Execute test scripts and record results accurately

Key requirements

• ISTQB, Agile, DevOps certifications (or equivalent)
• TOSCA certifications
• Strong manual testing skills
• Experience in cross-functional product teams
• Solid understanding of Agile and Waterfall methodologies
• Experience with test management and defect tracking tools (Zephyr, JIRA)
• Knowledge of risk-based testing
• Proven experience in managing test automation for testing functions/portfolio
• Automation for complex, multi-platform distributed applications
• Knowledge of market-standard automation and CI/CD tools (Selenium, Tosca, Playwright, Jenkins, GitHub, Maven)
• Knowledge of AI & Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GitHub Copilot)

• Cross-functional collaboration
• Ability to manage up and coordinate teams
• Analytical thinking
• Manual testing
• Test automation leadership
• Test management and defect tracking

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