Quality Assurance Engineer

🚀 Quality Engineer (Tech-for-Good | Edinburgh) £60,000 with incredible benefits

Sadly sponsorship is not provided

Are you a Quality Engineer who cares about more than just passing tests?

Do you want to reduce real-world failures, not just catch bugs

We’re working with a mission-led, Edinburgh-based organisation using technology to create meaningful impact—and they’re looking for a modern Quality Engineer to help raise the bar on reliability, performance, and confidence at scale.

This isn’t a traditional QA role. You won’t be ticking off test cases or acting as a gatekeeper. Instead, you’ll shape how quality is built into the system from day one—and how it’s proven in production.

💡 What You’ll Do

• Proactively identify risks early across design, architecture, data flows, and integrations
• Reduce late-stage defects by embedding quality throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Define and implement metrics-driven quality gates to increase release confidence
• Ensure systems, pipelines, and integrations perform under real-world load and scale
• Embed automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines
• Use observability (logs, metrics, traces) to validate production behaviour and catch issues early
• Partner with teams to build resilient, testable, and observable systems by design

🧠 What You Bring

• 5+ years as a Quality Engineer in modern, CI/CD environments
• Strong experience designing risk-based testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, E2E)
• A deep understanding of system behaviour under load, scale, and high data volume
• Experience in B2C, SaaS, or high-traffic environments where reliability matters
• Comfort working with metrics like MTTR, failure rates, and performance thresholds
• A mindset focused on continuous improvement, not just defect detection

🌍 Why This Role?

• Work in a tech-for-good environment where reliability has real impact
• Influence how quality is embedded across an entire organisation
• Join a collaborative, values-driven team in Edinburgh
• Build systems that don’t just work—but keep working when it counts

Interested?

Let’s talk about how you can help build software people truly depend on.