Senior QA Engineer

October 8, 2026

Remote (within country)

Senior

London

Indeed

Description

Fully remote, Outside IR35 contract role for an experienced Quality Engineer on a greenfield project, running until 30 September 2027. The role is embedded in the engineering team and owns day-to-day QA delivery, working alongside the Principal QA who leads the wider QA strategy. Coverage spans functional, API, accessibility and performance testing using Playwright, GitHub Actions and agentic AI tooling.

Responsibilities

Own end-to-end QA delivery for project deliverables
Raise the quality bar across the team — collaborate with engineers on testability, contribute to PR reviews, add quality gates in the CI/CD pipeline and help make quality everyone's responsibility
Exploratory testing, improve quality from the user's perspective including UX and accessibility
Work alongside the Principal QA to evaluate and onboard agentic QA tooling as the organisation builds its AI-assisted quality capability
Extend and maintain the Playwright (TypeScript) E2E suite
Contribute to API test coverage for the platform API
Introduce and run performance testing (Lighthouse, K6) against key user journeys and API endpoints

Requirements

5+ years of Quality Engineering experience in a modern web product team
Playwright (TypeScript/JavaScript) — confident and hands-on, able to build and maintain a mature test suite from scratch
Exposure to agentic development tools and an interest in how AI changes QA practice with use of Claude Code, Github Copilot or similar tech
Comfortable delegating suitable tasks to agents, and focusing on the architecture of those agents
GitHub Actions — experience designing and maintaining test pipelines as part of a deployment workflow
Accessibility testing — automation, or understanding of open-source tools available in the industry
API testing — functional coverage of REST APIs, ideally including authentication flows (OAuth / token-based)
Experience with performance testing tools (Grafana K6, Lighthouse CLI)
Familiarity with Cloudflare Workers

Conditions

Fully remote Outside IR35 contract role until 30 September 2027
Must be living in the UK to be eligible to apply

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