Senior QA Engineer

Waracle is a world-class digital technology consultancy and home to a diverse, smart, curious and ambitious community of specialists in technology-driven transformation.

We work with ambitious clients to help them solve their biggest business and customer challenges. We help our clients to innovate and create intelligent digital products and services. We thrive on complex challenges and deliver business-critical IT transformation projects, moving seamlessly from strategy, design and delivery to operations.

We're looking for an exceptional Senior Automation QA to join our dynamic team in London (with a great hybrid setup, of course!). This is a pivotal role for someone who brings technical mastery, strategic thinking, and a true passion for quality across the whole software development journey.

You won't just be hands-on with testing; you'll be a cornerstone of our project teams, ensuring the highest standards for complex digital products. Beyond that, you'll be a key contributor to our QA practice, coaching peers, defining strategic approaches, and championing a culture of continuous improvement. If you're a proactive problem-solver, a natural mentor, and a thought leader in quality assurance, we'd love to hear from you!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Strategic QA Leadership: You'll define and drive comprehensive test strategies, making sure we have robust coverage for everything from how features work to how fast and secure they are. You'll apply your expert knowledge of SDLC and Agile to guide the team and keep us sharp.

• Advanced Technical & Automation Skills: You'll be highly skilled in functional, non-functional, and 'white-box' testing. A big part of your role will be creating or enhancing our automation frameworks, and you'll proactively review code to ensure it's efficient, reusable, and easy to understand. (If you've got Playwright experience, that's a significant advantage!).

• Ensuring Quality Excellence: You'll be the expert in handling defects, leading efforts to get them triaged quickly, and making sure we track everything properly. You're great at spotting and resolving potential blockers before they become big headaches, keeping everyone clear on expectations.

• Mentorship & Collaboration: This is where the human touch really comes in! You'll actively mentor our junior QA engineers, coaching them on best practices, how to create great test plans, and how to use our tools effectively. You'll help foster a culture of continuous learning and teamwork within our multidisciplinary teams.

• Innovation & Thought Leadership: You're always looking for what's next! You'll proactively suggest and help integrate new testing tools, and you'll become a true expert in our project domains. If you're keen to share your knowledge, we'd love you to be a thought leader and even speak at industry events.

What We're Looking For (Your Skills & Experience):

• Extensive Senior QA Experience: You've got a solid background as a Senior QA Engineer, ideally from a digital consultancy environment.

• Comprehensive QA Expertise: You have deep knowledge of QA best practices, standards, and methodologies (SDLC, Agile).

• Technical Testing Proficiency: You're highly skilled in functional, non-functional, and white-box testing, including security testing fundamentals.

• Automation Prowess: You have advanced automation skills, capable of creating and extending frameworks, with a strong focus on code quality.

• Natural Leader & Mentor: You have exceptional leadership and mentorship abilities, with a proven track record of coaching junior QAs and helping teams grow.

• Strategic Thinker: You're great at defining test strategies, ensuring coverage, and driving tooling integration.

• Effective Problem Solver: You have strong problem-solving skills, including proactive defect management, leading triage, and anticipating risks.

• Excellent Communicator: You're comfortable working in multidisciplinary teams, collaborating effectively, and potentially sharing your insights externally (e.g., at events).

• Quick Learner: You can quickly dive deep and understand new project domains and client sectors.

The recruitment process you can expect for this role is an initial call with your dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner who will chat with you about Waracle, what you are looking for in a new position, the salary for the role, notice period and benefits (the important stuff!).

After that, you'll be invited to a two-stage interview process where you have an opportunity to find out more about the role and showcase your skills and experience. Your Talent Acquisition Partner will guide you through the whole process to your first day with us.

We have various events, days out, competitions and incentives throughout the year and here are some other benefits you can expect as permanent team member at Waracle:

• 🏡Flexible and Hybrid working

• 🏖35 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays)

• 💸Matched Pension up to 5%

• 🤒Medicash Proactive Health Cover

• 🧘‍♀️Health and Wellbeing Support through Unum

• 📈Access to 1000s Personal Development Courses

• 🏥Group Life and Sickness Cover

• 🍼Enhanced parental leave

• 🤑Access to exclusive savings and discounts on top brands

Plus many more!

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, gender, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.