Senior QA Engineer

Senior Agile QA Engineer – Remote (Europe)

We are hiring a Senior Agile QA Engineer to join a high-performing product squad within a modern, cloud-based engineering environment. This is a hands-on QA role , embedded directly into the squad, focusing on shift-left quality, automation, and AI-enhanced testing practices .

If you enjoy being the quality voice in an autonomous team, use AI to accelerate your workflow, and want real ownership over how quality is done, this will be a strong match.

What You’ll Do

  • Lead quality strategy within your squad—define test scope, approach, and risk models
  • Use data/metrics to drive quality decisions and identify risk early
  • Work closely with Product & Engineering from the very start of the lifecycle
  • Own and maintain automated tests (Playwright, API, integration)
  • Strengthen the team’s shift-left mindset
  • Contribute to non-functional testing: performance, resilience, security, accessibility
  • Drive improvements across test coverage, tooling, and quality debt
  • Use AI tools to speed up test creation, analysis, debugging, and risk reviews
  • Collaborate with developers to improve their testing skills and approaches

What We’re Looking For

  • 8+ years of hands-on QA experience within agile squads
  • Strong automation background across UI and API layers
  • Solid experience in microservices and modern distributed systems
  • Confident reading code and reviewing test coverage
  • Data-driven approach to testing and risk analysis
  • Comfortable working with CI/CD, cloud environments, containers
  • Excellent communication skills (this is critical)
  • Curious testers who embrace AI to make their work faster and smarter
  • Ideally worked with Golang backend.

Nice to Have:

Experience with Playwright, TypeScript, Venom, Kafka, GraphQL, PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Elasticsearch, or resilience testing.

Job Details

Company
Breakthrough Talent
Location
Bristol, UK
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