Hybrid Senior Quality Engineer

at Opus 2

• Job title: Senior Quality Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Cypress, Docker, Java, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Microservices, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Quality Engineer enabling high-quality delivery through test automation at Opus 2. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to build quality into products from the start.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with developers to design testable solutions and integrate testing into development workflows.
• Act as a Quality champion for your team and Quality Engineering by looking to drive continuous improvements that directly and indirectly improve quality.
• Have fundamental awareness regarding the application of different types of testing (unit, integration, API, E2E, performance where appropriate) and an ability to advise, write and maintain these accordingly.
• Develop and maintain testing frameworks/tools that improve speed, stability, and developer experience.
• Embrace a continuous Quality mindset:
• Focus on prevention over detection
• Automation first
• Data driven decision making
• Customer centric focus
• Support teams in writing Acceptance Tests and improving acceptance criteria clarity.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable feedback loops.
• Analyse test failures, identify root causes, and partner with the team to resolve issues early.

Requirements

• Strong experience with automated testing: API, UI, integration, acceptance, unit.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Java, C#, etc.).
• Able to work in TDD / BDD using Mocks on production code
• Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress etc.).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and familiarity with tooling such as (GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc.).
• Familiarity with microservices, cloud environments, and containerisation (e.g., AWS, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Awareness of non-functional requirements (e.g. Security, Performance etc.).
• Workshop facilitation (3 Amigos, Example Mapping etc.).
• Write well defined Acceptance Criteria with cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong understanding of testing principles, exploratory testing, and test design.
• Continuous quality, preventing defects via early collaboration and specification refinement through to production data tracking to better understand our customers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proactive, curious, and able to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Continuous improvement mindset.
• Confidence to coach teams on change and best practices.
• Team player mentality, helping to create a supportive team culture.

Benefits

• Contributory pension plan.
• 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
• Health Insurance.
• Loyalty Share Scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
• A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
• Regular Company Social Events.
• Yearly Development Retreat.