Full Description

Role Overview

The Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer will play a key role in ensuring the quality, reliability, and performance of large-scale software platforms used across a national and international telecommunications environment. The role sits within a mature engineering organisation supporting customer-facing, network-facing, and internal digital systems operating at high scale and availability.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain automated and manual test frameworks for enterprise-scale applications
• Contribute to quality assurance activities across the full software development lifecycle
• Define test strategies aligned with delivery scope, risk, and release timelines
• Ensure software releases meet agreed quality, security, and performance standards
• Collaborate closely with software engineering, product, DevOps, and platform teams
• Review test plans, test cases, and QA artefacts produced by other team members
• Identify quality risks early and work with delivery teams to resolve issues proactively
• Support Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Continuously improve automation coverage, test reliability, and QA processes
• Provide clear reporting on defects, test outcomes, and quality metrics

Technology and Environment

The role typically involves working with a modern enterprise QA and delivery stack, including

Test Automation: Selenium, Playwright, Cypress (UI and functional automation)

API Testing: REST Assured, Postman, Newman

Performance & Reliability Testing: JMeter, Gatling, k6

CI/CD & DevOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps

Containerisation & Cloud: Docker, Kubernetes (test environments), public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

Test Management & Reporting: Jira, Xray, TestRail, Confluence

Programming & Scripting: Python and/or Java

Modern Architectures: Microservices, event-driven systems, RESTful APIs

Required Experience and Skills

5+ years of experience in Software Quality Assurance within enterprise or large-scale environments Strong understanding of modern QA practices, tools, and automation frameworks Hands-on experience with UI and API test automation Experience testing distributed, cloud-based, or microservices architectures Good knowledge of QA standards and methodologies (ISTQB, ISEB, TMAP or equivalent) Strong coding skills in Python or Java Experience working within Agile delivery teams Ability to analyse technical documentation and communicate clearly in English Proactive, detail-oriented mindset with strong problem-solving skills