Software Engineer

The Senior Quality Engineer is an embedded member of a cross-functional engineering team responsible for enabling high-quality delivery through test automation, quality-focused engineering practices, and early defect prevention. Rather than acting as a gatekeeper, this role partners with developers, product managers, and designers to build quality into the product from the start. What you'll be doing

• Collaborate with developers to design testable solutions and integrate testing into development workflows.
• Build, maintain, and improve automated test suites (unit, integration, API, E2E, performance where appropriate).
• Develop and maintain testing frameworks/tools that improve speed, stability, and developer experience.
• Embrace and spread shift-left testing practices - early identification and prevention of defects.
• Support teams in writing Acceptance Tests and improving acceptance criteria clarity.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable feedback loops.
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Technical

• Strong experience with automated testing: API, UI, integration, acceptance, unit.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Java, C#, etc.).
• Able to work in TDD / BDD using Mocks on production code
• Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress etc.).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc.).
• Familiarity with microservices, cloud environments, and containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Awareness of non-functional requirements (e.g. security, performance etc.).

Quality Practices

• Workshop facilitation (3 Amigos, Example Mapping etc.).
• Write well defined Acceptance Criterias with cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong understanding of testing principles, exploratory testing, and test design.
• Shift-Left experience, preventing defects via early collaboration and specification refinement.

Soft Skills

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Proactive, curious, and able to challenge assumptions constructively.
• Continuous improvement mindset

Opus 2 is a global leader in legal software and services, trusted partner of the world's leading legal teams. All our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture where our people are our most valuable asset. Working at Opus 2, you'll receive:

• Contributory pension plan.
• 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
• Health Insurance.
• Loyalty Share Scheme.
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
• Employee Assistance Programme.
• Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
• A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
• Regular Company Social Events.
• Yearly Development Retreat.

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