Senior Quality Engineer
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Senior Quality Engineer leading testing and automation for Pearson’s ExamDeveloper and OnVUE assessment platforms. Improving release confidence, security, accessibility, and scalability.
Responsibilities:
- Lead test strategy and quality planning for new features, platform enhancements, and releases
- Design comprehensive test approaches spanning functional, integration, regression, API, accessibility, negative, and end-to-end testing
- Build, maintain, and improve automated testing coverage across web, API, and workflow scenarios
- Perform hands-on testing for complex, high-risk, cross-functional initiatives
- Define and enforce quality gates and release readiness criteria
- Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, retesting, and validation activities
- Review automation and regression results, identify trends, and improve reliability and coverage
- Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, DevOps, Security, and Operations teams throughout the development lifecycle
- Use metrics, production insights, telemetry, and defect trends to continuously improve quality practices
- Mentor and coach quality engineers in automation design, test strategy, accessibility validation, and release readiness
- Identify quality risks early and drive proactive mitigation plans
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience
- 5+ years of professional quality engineering, software testing, or test automation experience
- Experience leading quality efforts for complex web-based, cloud-hosted, or customer-facing applications
- Strong knowledge of test strategy, defect management, regression planning, and release validation
- Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and mentoring within Agile engineering teams
- Strong understanding of automation-first testing principles and quality engineering best practices
- Preferred: Experience with Selenium, WebDriver, Playwright, or comparable automation frameworks
- Preferred: Experience with BDD testing frameworks, including Gauge or similar tools
- Preferred: Experience testing UI, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows
- Preferred: Familiarity with Java, C#, REST APIs, and modern CI/CD practices
- Preferred: Strong SQL and database validation skills
- Preferred: Experience investigating production issues using logs, telemetry, dashboards, and monitoring tools
- Preferred: Experience validating accessibility requirements and user experience quality
- Preferred: Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-based applications, and scalable architectures
- Preferred: Experience working with globally distributed teams, offshore partners, or vendor-supported delivery models
- Preferred: Experience leveraging AI-assisted development and testing tools responsibly, including validation of AI-generated outputs
Benefits:
- Eligibility to participate in Pearson’s sales incentive plan
- Information on benefits is available via Pearson’s benefits page
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