Senior QA Engineer
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Description
Senior QA Engineer, Outside IR35, £550 day rate – Remote working
Parity is delighted to partner with our client, a public sector organisation, who are looking to recruit a Senior QA Engineer / Software Engineer in Test to join the IDS team. Initially a 6 month contract with a view for extension. This role will require occasional attendance to their regional offices.
This is a hands-on role combining test automation engineering with release coordination, reporting directly to the Product Manager.
The immediate priority is to assess and stabilise the existing ReqnRoll (SpecFlow/BDD) test suite, define a migration approach, and build out a modern Playwright-based automation framework. You’ll also take ownership of release coordination, ensuring high-quality, well-governed deployments with clear reporting for stakeholders.
You’ll work closely with a DevOps Engineer focused on infrastructure and reliability. This is an individual contributor role with no line management.
Key Responsibilities
Parity is delighted to partner with our client, a public sector organisation, who are looking to recruit a Senior QA Engineer / Software Engineer in Test to join the IDS team. Initially a 6 month contract with a view for extension. This role will require occasional attendance to their regional offices.
This is a hands-on role combining test automation engineering with release coordination, reporting directly to the Product Manager.
The immediate priority is to assess and stabilise the existing ReqnRoll (SpecFlow/BDD) test suite, define a migration approach, and build out a modern Playwright-based automation framework. You’ll also take ownership of release coordination, ensuring high-quality, well-governed deployments with clear reporting for stakeholders.
You’ll work closely with a DevOps Engineer focused on infrastructure and reliability. This is an individual contributor role with no line management.
Key Responsibilities
- Assess the existing ReqnRoll test suite and plan migration to Playwright.
- Migrate BDD/acceptance tests and improve maintainability.
- Design and maintain a Playwright test framework (E2E, regression, functional)
- Integrate automated tests into Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
- Own release coordination, approvals and deployment readiness
- Maintain release notes, change logs and quality reporting.
- Identify quality risks and champion best testing practices.
- Strong hands-on experience with Playwright
- Experience building maintainable test automation frameworks.
- Understanding of BDD and web testing patterns (APIs, auth, data)
- CI/CD integration experience (Azure DevOps preferred)
- Experience with release coordination in agile teams
- Proficiency in TypeScript, Python or C#/.NET
- Ability to communicate clearly with engineers and stakeholders.
- Familiarity with WCAG accessibility standards
- ReqnRoll or SpecFlow experience
- Test framework migration experience.
- Azure DevOps dashboards and reporting
- Containerised / cloud-hosted applications (AKS)
- UK public sector or GDS experience
- Interest in AI-assisted test automation