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 Do
Lead quality strategy within your squad—define test scope, approach, and risk models
Use data/metrics to drive quality decisions and identify risk early
Work closely with Product & Engineering from the very start of the lifecycle
Own and maintain automated tests (Playwright, API, integration)
Strengthen the team’s shift-left mindset
Contribute to non-functional testing: performance, resilience, security, accessibility
Drive improvements across test coverage, tooling, and quality debt
Use AI tools to speed up test creation, analysis, debugging, and risk reviews
Collaborate 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
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.