Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Senior Test Engineer at Amach will play a pivotal role in supporting product-led delivery teams within the Architecture & Engineering practice. This position requires collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality solutions through Agile testing practices. The role is hybrid, requiring 1-2 days per week onsite in London, and emphasizes a shift-left approach to quality governance. The ideal candidate will champion testing strategies and automation while actively participating in Agile ceremonies.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own testing engineering and quality management governance within a product domain
- Champion an Agile, shift-left approach to quality across delivery teams
- Define quality criteria and approaches to embed and measure quality across the SDLC
- Collaborate with Product Owners and teams to define Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
- Define and implement test strategies for features and releases, ensuring collective ownership of quality
- Partner with Developers to ensure transparency of unit test coverage and test approaches
- Translate user stories into high-level test scenarios aligned to key user journeys
- Identify appropriate test types and optimise testing approaches, including exploratory testing
- Drive and optimise automated test coverage across FE, API and BE layers
- Ensure transparent quality reporting, including automated test coverage and execution results
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, representing the voice of quality in planning, estimation and refinement
- Continuously identify and implement improvements across process, tooling and ways of working
Key Skills:
- Proven experience working in Agile product teams, collaborating closely with Product and Engineering
- Strong track record of analysing complex systems and defining effective test strategies
- Hands-on experience with defect tracking tools such as JIRA
- Experience with test case management tools such as Zephyr
- Demonstrated use of multiple testing approaches: automation, exploratory and scripted testing
- Ability to design and build automation frameworks from scratch, aligned to the Agile test pyramid
- Automation experience across Front End, API and Back End testing
- Experience delivering end-to-end, functional, non-functional and regression testing
- Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Pact, Specmatic, RestAssured, Playwright or Selenium
- Programming experience in Java or JavaScript
- Experience with build automation and testing tools such as GitHub Actions, Gradle, CodeScene and SonarQube
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and quality gates
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
About us: Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe. Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions. Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning… Amach is a global digital transformation consultancy specialising in technology-led change across complex, regulated industries. We partner with enterprise clients to design, build and run high-quality digital products, placing engineering excellence and quality at the heart of everything we deliver.
We are now looking for an experienced Senior Test Engineer to join our clients Architecture & Engineering practice, supporting product-led delivery teams and embedding modern Agile and quality-first ways of working. This role is embedded with our customer’s London-based team, who have a hybrid setup: 1–2 days per week onsite is required in their offices in central London (flexible which days).
As a Senior Test Engineer at Amach, you will act as a quality evangelist within cross-functional product teams. You will own testing and quality governance within your domain, ensuring high-value, high-quality solutions are delivered through strong Agile testing practices and a shift-left mindset. You will work closely with Product Owners, Developers and fellow Quality Engineers to define test strategies, drive automation, and embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
Key responsibilities & duties include:
- Own testing engineering and quality management governance within a product domain
- Champion an Agile, shift-left approach to quality across delivery teams
- Define quality criteria and approaches to embed and measure quality across the SDLC
- Collaborate with Product Owners and teams to define Definition of Ready and Definition of Done
- Define and implement test strategies for features and releases, ensuring collective ownership of quality
- Partner with Developers to ensure transparency of unit test coverage and test approaches
- Translate user stories into high-level test scenarios aligned to key user journeys
- Identify appropriate test types and optimise testing approaches, including exploratory testing
- Drive and optimise automated test coverage across FE, API and BE layers
- Ensure transparent quality reporting, including automated test coverage and execution results
- Actively participate in Agile ceremonies, representing the voice of quality in planning, estimation and refinement
- Continuously identify and implement improvements across process, tooling and ways of working
Required skills:
- Proven experience working in Agile product teams, collaborating closely with Product and Engineering
- Strong track record of analysing complex systems and defining effective test strategies
- Hands-on experience with defect tracking tools such as JIRA
- Experience with test case management tools such as Zephyr
- Demonstrated use of multiple testing approaches: automation, exploratory and scripted testing
- Ability to design and build automation frameworks from scratch, aligned to the Agile test pyramid
- Automation experience across Front End, API and Back End testing
- Experience delivering end-to-end, functional, non-functional and regression testing
- Hands-on experience with automation frameworks such as Pact, Specmatic, RestAssured, Playwright or Selenium
- Programming experience in Java or JavaScript
- Experience with build automation and testing tools such as GitHub Actions, Gradle, CodeScene and SonarQube
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and quality gates
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive salaries based on experience
Equal Opportunity Employer: Amach is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. This job description is intended to convey essential responsibilities and qualifications for this role, but it is not an exhaustive list of tasks that an employee may be required to perform.
If you are passionate about driving customer success, advising on strategic solutions, and contributing to product innovation, we would love to hear from you!
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