Quality Engineer - Front Ends

October 15, 2026

Senior

London

Indeed

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Fixed-term contract

Description

Quality Engineers take ownership of all aspects of quality, from ideation through to monitoring in production, covering requirements, architecture, CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies and observability. The team builds modern mobile and web trading applications that give traders from all over the world access to energy markets. Quality is built in using a combination of shift-left and shift-right techniques, exploratory testing, technical testing and test automation, with significant investment in AI to optimise workflows.

Responsibilities

Shift-left and drive a Quality-by-Design culture through requirements analysis, architecture reviews, PRD and RFC reviews, identifying risks before the code is written
Design risk-based test strategies and plans and perform session-based exploratory testing to find unique bugs at the correct quality level
Actively contribute to automation to ensure and maintain comprehensive quality coverage
Synthesize multiple sources of information to investigate and perform root cause analysis on issues
Promote the use of AI in novel ways to support and optimize the team's processes and strategies
Advocate for architectural changes that improve system testability
Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to integrate quality gates into CI/CD pipelines, ensuring verification is a prerequisite for deployment
Lead initiatives to modernise test environments to mirror production conditions
Ensure all development and test documentation is written to a high standard, kept up to date and circulated within the team
Shift-right by designing and maintaining release strategies that prioritise system stability, such as canary deployments, feature flagging and zero-downtime deployments
Contribute to the design and implementation of observability strategies covering metrics, logs and traces that provide actionable insights into system health
Use production telemetry to drive proactive improvements and performance tuning
Actively grow the culture of quality and engage in quality-related topics across the organisation
Act as a point of contact regarding product knowledge for various members of the business
Design and run training sessions with other testers and developers to share techniques and product knowledge
Define and execute the quality strategy for your team, coaching and mentoring other team members to ensure software quality is considered throughout the development process

Requirements

Strong background in software quality and exploratory testing
Ability to understand complex, distributed architectures
Interested in all things technical with a passion for technology
An inquisitive nature, with excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
Understands testing concepts, methodologies and processes
Proven capability to lead and contribute to complex technical architectural discussions
Strong cross-functional collaboration skills with a diverse group of engineering and product stakeholders
Experience contributing to user stories and acceptance criteria
Seeks opportunities for improvement and focuses on personal development
Basic understanding of practical networking concepts (TCP/IP) and containerised environments
Interested in energy markets and their dynamics
Experienced in using data, metrics and production logs to drive decision-making and investigations
Understanding of modern infrastructure (IaC, Docker/Kubernetes) and the ability to contribute to build pipelines and scripting
Committed to building deep domain knowledge to understand the impact of technical changes on trading platforms and client workflows
Hands-on with C#, .NET, TypeScript, React and PowerShell
Experience with Docker, network testing tools and Azure DevOps
Familiarity with Splunk, Elastic Search, Grafana and GitHub Copilot