Software Quality Engineer I (UK Remote)

Role overview

Responsibilities

• Partner with Scrum teams on QA practices, test strategies, plans, cases and related assets.
• Design, write, execute and maintain automated and manual functional, regression, integration and scale tests.
• Collaborate with development teams on release validation across platforms and environments.
• Investigate, record, triage and track defects through verification and closure.
• Identify quality risks and dependencies early and collaborate on mitigation plans.
• Evaluate and integrate modern QA tools and AI-driven testing capabilities to improve efficiency and coverage.
• Develop expertise in framework architecture, advanced CI/CD pipelines and broad-scope test strategy design.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, plus at least four years of software quality engineering experience.
• Hands-on UI web automation and API automation using established frameworks; listed technologies include Java, Python, Jenkins, Docker, Maven and GitHub.
• Strong understanding of the Software Testing Life Cycle, QA concepts, methodologies and test management.
• Competency with continuous integration and deployment tools, such as Jenkins and Git.
• Practical Agile experience with Scrum and Kanban, work estimation and test data management.
• Research, evaluate and integrate modern QA tools and AI-driven testing capabilities.

Preferred skills

• Mobile UI automation and functional or manual testing are nice-to-have skills.
• Performance testing, such as JMeter, is a nice-to-have.
• Familiarity with AWS services (S3, Lambda, EC2, CloudWatch) or security/accessibility testing is a nice-to-have.

Ways of working

Workplace

• The posting describes a remote-first culture and the role title specifies UK Remote.

Benefits

• Benefits include healthcare coverage, education reimbursement, paid time off, self-care days, holidays, volunteer time, charitable matching, wellness or home-office reimbursement, mental health support, parental leave and a retirement plan with match or contribution; availability varies by country.

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