Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Define Strategy: Set the strategic direction for test engineering across product teams, establishing robust, risk-based testing strategies and clear quality metrics.
• Technical Guidance: Provide technical leadership and mentorship to embedded QA engineers, raising team capability and promoting engineering best practices.
• Delivery Oversight: Lead testing activities across parallel workstreams, ensuring quality, time, and cost objectives are met.
• Escalation & Defect Management: Act as the primary technical point of escalation for complex issues, environmental blockers, and risk management (RAID).
• Stakeholder Alignment: Develop tailored test approaches and executive reporting mechanisms to gain alignment with senior business and technical stakeholders.

Quality Engineering & Continuous ImprovementKey Responsibilities of the Senior QA Engineer

• Own quality and testing within your Scrum team

• Define test strategies, plans and test cases

• Design, develop and maintain automated test scripts

• Work with the Principal QA Engineer to improve automation frameworks

• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines

• Manage defects through investigation, resolution and retesting

• Deliver functional, non-functional and regression testing

• Support performance, load, security, accessibility and usability testing

• Maintain test environments, data and documentation

• Coach and mentor QA Engineers

Key Requirements of the Senior QFull job description

Senior QA Engineer - Warrington (Hybrid)- £50,000 + Bonus + Benefits

The Role

You'll sit within a cross-functional delivery team, working closely with Engineers, Product, and Design to ensure quality is built into everything from day one. This is not a "test at the end" role, you'll shape how quality is approached across the full lifecycle, influencing design, delivery, and production outcomes.

The Opportunity

This is a role where you'll drive a quality-first mindset, embedding best practices, improving how the team works, and ensuring releases are both fast and reliable. You'll help move quality earlier into the process (shift-left), while also using real production insights to improve decisions (observability-led quality).

There's strong scope to influence how QA operates within the team, from testing strategy through to continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing

• Driving QA strategy and best practices within an Agile delivery team
• Ensuring tests are applied at the right level (unit, integration, end-to-end) for effective coverage and risk mitigation
• Embedding shift-left testing, ensuring quality is considered early in design and development
• Leading exploratory testing to uncover issues real users might experience
• Using monitoring, metrics, and logs to drive observability-led quality and improve production outcomes
• Identifying risks early and helping the team make informed decisions
• Improving QA processes, standards, and ways of working across the team
• Mentoring QA colleagues and working closely with engineers to build a culture of quality
• Supporting automation strategies and ensuring the right tests are prioritised
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