Job Description
Senior Test Engineer - Warrington (Hybrid)- £50,000 + Bonus + Benefits
The Role
You'll sit within a cross-functional delivery team, working closely with Engineers, Product, and Design to ensure quality is built into everything from day one. This is not a "test at the end" role, you'll shape how quality is approached across the full lifecycle, influencing design, delivery, and production outcomes.
The Opportunity
This is a role where you'll drive a quality-first mindset, embedding best practices, improving how the team works, and ensuring releases are both fast and reliable. You'll help move quality earlier into the process (shift-left), while also using real production insights to improve decisions (observability-led quality).
There's strong scope to influence how QA operates within the team, from testing strategy through to continuous improvement.
What You'll Be Doing
* Driving QA strategy and best practices within an Agile delivery team
* Ensuring tests are applied at the right level (unit, integration, end-to-end) for effective coverage and risk mitigation
* Embedding shift-left testing, ensuring quality is considered early in design and development
* Leading exploratory testing to uncover issues real users might experience
* Using monitoring, metrics, and logs to drive observability-led quality and improve production outcomes
* Identifying risks early and helping the team make informed decisions
* Improving QA processes, standards, and ways of working across the team
* Mentoring QA colleagues and working closely with engineers to build a culture of quality
* Supporting automation strategies and ensuring the right tests are prioritised
What You Bring
* Strong experience in modern QA practices including shift-left, exploratory testing, and Agile delivery
* Experience working across API testing, SQL, and testability practices
* A solid understanding of the testing pyramid and risk-based quality approaches
* Experience using data, metrics, and observability to improve quality outcomes
* A proactive mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and team collaboration
* Ability to balance speed, risk, and quality to support confident releases
The Benefits:
As well as working within a supportive team you'll have these perks available, and much more:
* Salary £50,000
* Hybrid working
* Enhanced company pension
* Company bonus scheme
Submit your CV now to be considered or reach out for further information.
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.