Quality Engineer
Tech for Good Edinburgh (£60,000)
NO SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED SADLY
Are you an experienced Quality Engineer who wants to measurably improve software quality, reduce late-stage defects, and increase confidence in releases?
Our Edinburgh-based tech-for-good client is building high-scale digital platforms that make a real, positive impact. They're looking for a Quality Engineer who sees quality as a system-wide capability, not a final testing phase.
This is not a traditional QA role. You won't be executing test scripts or acting as a gatekeeper. Instead, you'll enable teams to take shared ownership of quality, using metrics, automation, and real production signals to continuously improve how software is built and released.
What you'll do
* Reduce late-stage defects by identifying risks early across design, data flows, integrations, and scale
* Increase release confidence using quality gates driven by metrics and real system behaviour
* Ensure services, integrations, and data pipelines remain stable under load and high volume
* Embed automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing
* Use observability (logs, metrics, traces) to validate behaviour and detect issues in production
* Act as a trusted quality partner, helping teams build resilient, testable, observable systems
What we're looking for
* 5+ years' experience as a modern Quality Engineer in CI/CD-driven environments
* Strong experience designing risk-based testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end)
* Solid understanding of how systems behave under scale, load, and high data throughput
* Background in B2C, SaaS, or high-traffic environments where failures have real impact
* Comfort working with quality and reliability metrics (e.g. MTTR, failure rates, performance thresholds)
Why this role?
* Purpose-driven technology with real social impact
* A culture that values engineering excellence and continuous improvement
* The opportunity to shape how quality is embedded end-to-end, from design to production
* Edinburgh-based with flexible/hybrid working
If you're passionate about building reliable systems that matter, and want to move quality upstream and downstream-not just test at the end-we'd love to talk.