Senior Quality Engineer

Job Description:

• 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