Senior QA Engineer

<h1>Senior QA Engineer</h1>
<p>Some QA engineers test what’s in front of them.</p>
<p>The really good ones ask:</p>
<p><strong>What could go wrong? What haven’t we thought about? How does this affect the wider system — and the customer?</strong></p>
<p>That’s the kind of Senior QA Engineer we’re looking for.</p>
<p>You’ll sit within an engineering team, and work closely with Software Engineers, Product, Design and SRE across both <strong>front-end and back-end testing</strong>.</p>
<p>This is a hands-on role. You’ll be involved early, helping the team think through quality before something reaches production, as well as investigating issues, supporting triage and helping decide where testing effort matters most.</p>
<p>We’re not overly focused on automation. We care much more about <strong>how you think</strong> — your curiosity, judgement, creativity and ability to investigate risk.</p>
<h2>What you’ll be doing</h2>
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<p>Test across front-end and back-end systems.</p>
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<p>Get involved early to identify risk, assumptions and gaps.</p>
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<p>Think beyond the happy path and explore how things could fail.</p>
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<p>Understand the customer and prioritise testing based on impact and business value.</p>
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<p>Investigate defects deeply, following clues and testing hypotheses.</p>
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<p>Analyse and triage issues raised by customers and internal teams.</p>
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<p>Look at the whole system, not just the ticket in front of you.</p>
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<p>Help keep important quality issues visible and prioritised.</p>
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<p>Improve testing practices, documentation and ways of working.</p>
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<p>Share your knowledge and help mentor less experienced team members.</p>
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<h2>What we’re looking for</h2>
<p>You’ll likely bring <strong>5+ years of QA or software testing experience</strong>, ideally in a SaaS or product environment.</p>
<p>More importantly, you’ll be someone who:</p>
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<p>Is naturally curious about how software works.</p>
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<p>Enjoys finding the unexpected.</p>
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<p>Thinks in terms of <strong>risk, systems and customer impact</strong>.</p>
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<p>Knows how to investigate, not just execute test cases.</p>
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<p>Can move comfortably between front-end behaviour and back-end logic.</p>
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<p>Communicates clearly and works well across disciplines.</p>
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<p>Brings creativity and pragmatism to testing.</p>
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<p>You’ll be comfortable with <strong>Jira and Confluence</strong>. Experience with <strong>Playwright and Postman</strong> is useful, but not essential.</p>
<p>Automation is welcome, but this is <strong>not an automation-first role</strong>.</p>
<p>We’d rather hire someone who asks the right questions, spots the hidden risks and understands what quality really means for the customer.</p>
<p>If that sounds like you, we’d love to talk.</p>