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