Quality Engineer - #2163162

Quality Engineer

Location: Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Industry: Wealth & Investments

Work Setting: Hybrid

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality digital products, improving software reliability, and embedding quality throughout the software development lifecycle? We are seeking a Quality Engineer to champion quality-first engineering practices, drive test strategy and automation initiatives, and ensure exceptional digital experiences across web and mobile platforms. This role works closely with cross-functional product squads to build robust testing solutions, improve release confidence, and enable continuous delivery of secure, resilient, and customer-focused products.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Strategy & Test Leadership

• Define and implement comprehensive testing strategies across unit, component, API, integration, and end-to-end testing layers.
• Establish quality standards, testing frameworks, and best practices across multiple Agile product teams.
• Ensure quality is embedded early in the software development lifecycle through shift-left testing approaches.
• Assess testing coverage and identify opportunities to improve product reliability and customer experience.

Test Automation & Quality Engineering

• Design, develop, and maintain automated test suites for web, mobile, API, and backend services.
• Implement and enhance automated testing frameworks using industry-standard tools and technologies.
• Create scalable test automation solutions that support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
• Improve test execution efficiency, coverage, and defect detection through automation and innovation.

Mobile & Digital Product Testing

• Lead testing efforts for mobile applications across iOS and Android platforms.
• Validate functionality, usability, accessibility, compatibility, and performance across multiple devices and environments.
• Support cross-platform testing initiatives that ensure a seamless digital customer experience.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to proactively identify and resolve quality risks.

Agile Collaboration & Delivery Support

• Partner with engineers, product managers, designers, and architects throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, reviews, and retrospectives.
• Provide quality-focused input during requirements gathering, design discussions, and solution development.
• Act as a quality advocate within cross-functional squads.

Coaching & Quality Enablement

• Mentor development teams on testing best practices, automation strategies, and quality engineering principles.
• Promote a culture of continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
• Guide teams on CI/CD integration, quality metrics, and effective testing approaches.
• Support adoption of modern testing methodologies and tooling across the organization.

Innovation & Continuous Improvement

• Drive improvements in testing frameworks, tooling, processes, and quality standards.
• Lead initiatives related to performance testing, accessibility testing, security testing, and service resilience validation.
• Explore and implement AI-driven testing approaches to improve coverage, efficiency, and defect identification.
• Evaluate emerging quality engineering technologies and recommend adoption where beneficial.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience in both manual and automated software testing across complex applications.
• Strong understanding of software testing methodologies, quality assurance practices, and test lifecycle management.
• Experience testing web-based and mobile applications.
• Knowledge of iOS and Android application testing.
• Experience defining and implementing testing strategies within Agile environments.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure.
• Experience developing and maintaining automated test frameworks.
• Knowledge of API testing, integration testing, and service validation approaches.
• Experience coaching developers and engineering teams on quality practices.
• Understanding of performance, security, accessibility, and resilience testing concepts.
• Exposure to AI-enabled testing and quality engineering innovations.

Preferred Skills

• Quality Engineering
• Test Strategy Development
• Test Automation
• Mobile Application Testing
• iOS Testing
• Android Testing
• Playwright
• Cypress
• Selenium
• Jest
• JUnit
• Postman
• API Testing
• CI/CD Pipelines
• Agile Methodologies
• Azure Cloud
• Performance Testing
• Accessibility Testing
• Security Testing
• AI-Driven Testing

Additional Desirable Skills

• Maestro Mobile Automation
• BrowserStack
• JavaScript
• TypeScript
• Cross-Platform Testing
• Continuous Testing
• DevOps Collaboration
• Shift-Left Testing