Senior Agile QA Engineer – Remote (Europe)
We are hiring a Senior Agile QA Engineer to join a high-performing product squad within a modern, cloud-based engineering environment. This is a hands-on QA role, embedded directly into the squad, focusing on shift-left quality, automation, and AI-enhanced testing practices .If you enjoy being the quality voice in an autonomous team, use AI to accelerate your workflow, and want real ownership over how quality is done, this will be a strong match.
What You'll DoLead quality strategy within your squad—define test scope, approach, and risk modelsUse data/metrics to drive quality decisions and identify risk earlyWork closely with Product & Engineering from the very start of the lifecycleOwn and maintain automated tests (Playwright, API, integration)Strengthen the team's shift-left mindsetContribute to non-functional testing: performance, resilience, security, accessibilityDrive improvements across test coverage, tooling, and quality debtUse AI tools to speed up test creation, analysis, debugging, and risk reviewsCollaborate with developers to improve their testing skills and approaches
What We're Looking For
~8+ years of hands-on QA experience within agile squads~ Strong automation background across UI and API layers~ Solid experience in microservices and modern distributed systems~ Confident reading code and reviewing test coverage~ Data-driven approach to testing and risk analysis~ Comfortable working with CI/CD, cloud environments, containers~ Excellent communication skills (this is critical)~ Curious testers who embrace AI to make their work faster and smarter~ Ideally worked with Golang backend.
Nice to Have:Experience with Playwright, TypeScript, Venom, Kafka, GraphQL, PostgreSQL/MongoDB/Elasticsearch, or resilience testing.
What's On Offer~25 days holiday + public holidays~ Up to 15% annual bonus~ Remote-first culture~ Work with cutting-edge tech~ Real ownership within an autonomous squad~ Strong career progression across product engineering~ A big focus on testing innovation and AI-assisted quality
If you would like to learn more then please contract us on jake@breakthroughtalent.co.uk.