Senior QA Engineer

Role Overview

• Lead the implementation and evolution of strategic automation initiatives across Digital Squads
• Embed and champion a whole team approach to quality, with a strong focus on the Test Pyramid
• Coach, mentor, and inspire others
• helping them develop skills and adopt better practices
• Advocate for continuous improvement across processes, tooling, and team behaviors
• Influence and evangelise CDL’s Testing Vision across the business
• Drive best practice across functional, nonfunctional, performance, and security testing
• Encourage innovation, challenge the status quo, and set high standards in everything we do
• Represent CDL externally in the Testing community, sharing insights and learning from industry developments

Requirements

• An expert understanding of modern testing principles and how they apply across delivery teams
• Ability to define and apply effective test strategies for complex systems, balancing automation, exploratory testing, and risk‑based approaches.
• Experience evangelising a left‑shifted approach to quality, working with teams to embed testing and quality practices early in the development lifecycle.
• Comfortable investigating issues across environments, using logs, metrics, and data to understand failures and support root‑cause analysis.
• Actively contributes to improving testing practices, standards, and tooling through continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.
• Strong working knowledge of TDD and BDD
• A collaborative approach, working hand in hand with Product and Engineering to drive shared outcomes
• Breadth of testing techniques with deep specialism in automation
• Hands-on experience with modern automated testing tools, such as Karate and Cypress, applying them effectively across the test pyramid.
• Familiarity with a range of testing and delivery tools used across the SDLC, including tools for exploratory testing, API documentation, performance testing, and work tracking (e.g. Postman/Bruno, Swagger UI, Gatling, JIRA).
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines, contributing to and maintaining automated quality checks within modern delivery workflows, such as GitLab.
• Comfortable working within AWS hosted systems, using cloud services to support effective testing, investigation, and quality assurance across distributed applications.
• A track record of driving improvements from idea to completion
• Experience adopting or integrating AI within the delivery lifecycle (AIDLC), using AI enabled tooling or practices to accelerate testing, improve coverage, enhance quality insights, or optimise team workflows
• Curiosity and openness to emerging AI driven testing approaches and their practical application in real-world delivery
• Knowledge of accessibility standards and practices (e.g., WCAG), with the ability to embed accessibility considerations into testing strategies and coach teams on inclusive quality approaches.
• Hands-on experience designing and executing effective test approaches across both mobile and desktop platforms, ensuring consistent quality, usability, and reliability across devices
• Experience with AI powered testing tools
• Comfortable interrogating relational databases (e.g. Postgres) using SQL to support testing, debugging, and root‑cause analysis, using tools such as DBeaver or similar.
• Performance and security testing experience
• Background in the insurance sector

Tech Stack

• AWS
• Cloud
• Cypress
• Postgres
• SDLC
• SQL

Benefits

• Hybrid Working (2 Days a Week in the office
• SK4 2HD)
• Truly flexible working.
• 25 days holiday to start, increasing by 1 day per 1 year of service up to 30 days.
• Top employer for 10th year running
• Excellent training and development platform
• Opportunities for career progression
• Health and Wellbeing programme
• Virtual activities, lunch and learns, coffee mornings and meetups.
• Life and health assurance
• Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Established Recognition Award System
• Great Parental Benefits
• Diversity and Inclusion network
• Pension scheme
• Community projects and volunteer days
• Refer a friend bonus
• On-site free parking
• Open plan modern offices
• Quiet Spaces are also available
• Shuttle bus to and from the station
• Subsidised restaurant
• Games room and chill out zone
• Annual Hackathon & Deep Racer Events
• Social activities, regular social events through our social group Xtra, including a summer BBQ, competitions, bowling, go-karting, football games, Winter party and much more!
• Car wash, barber, yoga classes, boot camp and massage services all on site
• Cycle to work scheme
• Shower and dry rooms