Quality Assurance
11 days ago
Edinburgh
Quality Engineer Tech for Good | Edinburgh (£60,000) NO SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED SADLY Are you an experienced Quality Engineer who wants to measurably improve software quality, reduce late-stage defects, and increase confidence in releases? Our Edinburgh-based tech-for-good client is building high-scale digital platforms that make a real, positive impact. They're looking for a Quality Engineer who sees quality as a system-wide capability, not a final testing phase. This is not a traditional QA role. You won't be executing test scripts or acting as a gatekeeper. Instead, you'll enable teams to take shared ownership of quality, using metrics, automation, and real production signals to continuously improve how software is built and released. What you'll do • 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 systemsWhat we're looking for, • 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)Why this role?, • Purpose-driven technology with real social impact, • A culture that values engineering excellence and continuous improvement, • The opportunity to shape how quality is embedded end-to-end, from design to production