Senior Software Quality Assurance Engineer

This will be a B2B consultancy engagement, you must setup your own company or act as a sole trader to be eligible. Company can be registered anywhere.

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

Desirable:

• Exposure to performance, load, and resilience testing at scale

• Experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

• Familiarity with cloud-native or DevOps-oriented delivery models

What the Role Offers:

• Work on high-availability platforms serving millions of users

• Fully remote

• Exposure to complex, large-scale systems and modern engineering practices

• 24 month contract

Equal Opportunity:

The organisation is committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and welcomes applications from all qualified candidates.