Senior QA Engineer

Role overview

Canopycast has an opening for a Senior QA Engineer. This hire will build out our Playwright suite and get it running reliably in CI. Hybrid: two days in the office in Birmingham, the rest from home.

In this role you will

• Verify bug fixes and sign off on releases.
• Report on test coverage, escaped defects and release readiness.
• Log, triage and track defects in Jira with severity and priority.
• Test mobile apps on real devices and on BrowserStack or Sauce Labs.
• Create test plans and regression checklists for major releases.
• Write and maintain automated UI tests with Playwright, Cypress or Selenium WebDriver.
• Run exploratory testing on new features and document findings with clear repro steps.
• Investigate and fix flaky tests rather than just retrying them.

What you'll need

• 5-7 years of software QA experience, including test automation.
• Experience with at least one UI automation framework.
• Patience and persistence when chasing intermittent issues.
• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and Agile/Scrum.

Compensation and benefits

• Private medical insurance.
• Company pension.
• 33 days holiday including bank holidays.
• Employee assistance programme.
• Free parking.
• Free on-site parking.
• 28 days annual leave including bank holidays.

The company

Annual releases gave way to two-week sprints years ago, and the platform now handles over 200 million API calls a day. We started in 1992 and have grown to about 4,100 people. We keep recurring meetings to Tuesdays and Thursdays where we can.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Canopycast.