Pearson
Senior Quality Engineer
United States · Senior · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$110k-$120kDetected 7 days ago
JavaC#Distributed SystemsSQLCI/CDDevOpsRESTAccessibilityRecruitingCustomer SuccessSeleniumPlaywrightTest AutomationBDDLeadershipMentoring
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About the role
- As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority for quality across one or more product domains.
- This role combines hands-on testing and automation with leadership through influence.
- We are currently hiring multiple Senior Quality Engineer positions across our ExamDeveloper and OnVUE product teams:
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.
- Perform hands-on testing for complex, high-risk, cross-functional initiatives.
- Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, retesting, and validation activities.
- Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, DevOps, Security, and Operations teams throughout the development lifecycle.
- Mentor and coach quality engineers in automation design, test strategy, accessibility validation, and release readiness.
- Identify quality risks early and drive proactive mitigation plans.
- This is an opportunity to develop engineering talent, strengthen delivery and quality practices, and help teams adopt emerging AI-assisted ways of working across technology that supports assessment experiences at scale.
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.
Nice to have
- Experience with Selenium, WebDriver, Playwright, or comparable automation frameworks.
- Experience with BDD testing frameworks, including Gauge or similar tools.
- Experience testing UI, API, integration, and end-to-end workflows.
- Familiarity with Java, C#, REST APIs, and modern CI/CD practices.
- Strong SQL and database validation skills.
- Experience investigating production issues using logs, telemetry, dashboards, and monitoring tools.
- Experience validating accessibility requirements and user experience quality.
- Knowledge of distributed systems, cloud-based applications, and scalable architectures.
Compensation
- Compensation at Pearson is influenced by factors including skill set, experience, and location.
- The full-time salary range for this role is $110,000 - $120,000.
- This position is eligible to participate in Pearson's sales incentive plan.
Benefits
- Build, maintain, and improve automated testing coverage across web, API, and workflow scenarios.
- Review automation and regression results, identify trends, and improve reliability and coverage.
- Information on benefits can be found here.
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