Quality Assurance Engineer

Job description

Quality Engineer (Tech-for-Good | Edinburgh) £60,000 with incredible benefits

Sadly sponsorship is not provided

Are you a Quality Engineer who cares about more than just passing tests?

Do you want to reduce real-world failures, not just catch bugs?

We’re working with a mission-led, Edinburgh-based organisation using technology to create meaningful impact—and they’re looking for a modern Quality Engineer to help raise the bar on reliability, performance, and confidence at scale.

This isn’t a traditional QA role. You won’t be ticking off test cases or acting as a gatekeeper. Instead, you’ll shape how quality is built into the system from day one—and how it’s proven in production.

What You’ll Do

• Proactively identify risks early across design, architecture, data flows, and integrations
• Reduce late-stage defects by embedding quality throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Define and implement metrics-driven quality gates to increase release confidence
• Ensure systems, pipelines, and integrations perform under real-world load and scale
• Embed automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines
• Use observability (logs, metrics, traces) to validate production behaviour and catch issues early
• Partner with teams to build resilient, testable, and observable systems by design

What You Bring

• 5+ years as a Quality Engineer in modern, CI/CD environments
• Strong experience designing risk-based testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, E2E)
• A deep understanding of system behaviour under load, scale, and high data volume
• Experience in B2C, SaaS, or high-traffic environments where reliability matters
• Comfort working with metrics like MTTR, failure rates, and performance thresholds
• A mindset focused on continuous improvement, not just defect detection

Why This Role?

• Work in a tech-for-good environment where reliability has real impact
• Influence how quality is embedded across an entire organisation
• Join a collaborative, values-driven team in Edinburgh
• Build systems that don’t just work—but keep working when it counts

Interested?

Let’s talk about how you can help build software people truly depend on.

Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Edinburgh

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

02-05-2026

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English