Senior Test Engineer

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.