2514 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Quality Assurance Specialist
£50,000 - 60,000
Head Resourcing
Manor Place 2, Edinburgh
£50,000 - 60,000
Requirements
Must:
- 5+ years experience as a modern Quality Engineer in CI/CD-driven environments
- Strong experience designing risk-based testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end)
- Solid understanding of how systems behave under scale, load, and high data throughput
- Background in B2C, SaaS, or high-traffic environments where failures have real impact
- Comfort working with quality and reliability metrics (e.g. MTTR, failure rates, performance thresholds)
Responsibilities
- Reduce late-stage defects by identifying risks early across design, data flows, integrations, and scale
- Increase release confidence using quality gates driven by metrics and real system behaviour
- Ensure services, integrations, and data pipelines remain stable under load and high volume
- Embed automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing
- Use observability (logs, metrics, traces) to validate behaviour and detect issues in production
- Act as a trusted quality partner, helping teams build resilient, testable, observable systems
Description
We are a tech-for-good company based in Edinburgh, dedicated to building high-scale digital platforms that create a positive impact. We foster a culture that values engineering excellence and continuous improvement. This role offers the chance to influence how quality is integrated from design to production, with the flexibility of hybrid working arrangements.
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