Inside IR35 – Paying up to £40 per hour via umbrella.
Location: Hybrid – 3 days per week in office in London or Sussex
Responsibilities will include:
Quality Engineering & Risk Management
Embed quality early by participating in refinement, planning, design, and technical discussions to identify risks, edge cases, dependencies, and testability concerns.
Apply risk-based testing approaches to determine appropriate coverage based on customer impact, technical complexity, change scope, and product risk.
Identify and communicate quality risks early, including significant defects, coverage gaps, blockers, and emerging concerns.
Collaborate with Engineering and Product teams to improve acceptance criteria, test stability, defect prevention, and overall engineering quality.
Provide clear quality evidence by communicating coverage, defects, outstanding risks, and confidence levels to support informed team and release decisions.
Automation Engineering
Build and maintain automated tests at the most appropriate engineering layer, contributing to API, customer journey/end-to-end, native mobile, and other relevant automation capabilities.
Maintain automation health by investigating failures and improving flaky, unreliable, redundant, or low-value automated tests.
Contribute to shared Quality Engineering capabilities by adopting and enhancing established approaches across customer journey/end-to-end automation, API automation, test data management, native mobile automation, and related disciplines.
Exploratory Testing & Investigation
Perform targeted exploratory testing to investigate complex behaviours, edge cases, and customer scenarios where human exploration provides additional value.
Use analytical and investigative techniques to understand issues, identify patterns, and support root cause analysis activities.
Work closely with engineering teams during defect investigation and resolution to ensure fast feedback and effective remediation.
Continuous Improvement & Engineering Excellence
Drive continuous improvement by developing your technical capabilities, sharing knowledge, and identifying opportunities to improve testing, automation, and engineering practices.
Support a culture of shared ownership, learning, experimentation, and quality-focused engineering.
Contribute to the evolution of quality engineering standards, tooling, and best practices across the wider organization.
You will need:
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to explain quality risks, technical issues, and recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical, investigative, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to understand complex systems, identify patterns, and perform effective root cause analysis.
Solid understanding of Quality Engineering principles, including automation, risk-based testing, exploratory testing, quality advocacy, and defect prevention.
Experience working within Agile Scrum teams and collaborating closely with Software Engineers and Product teams.
Practical experience designing, developing, and maintaining automated tests.
A proactive approach to ownership, learning, innovation, and continuous improvement.
WebdriverIO (WDIO) or comparable JavaScript/TypeScript-based UI automation frameworks.
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