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# Senior Test Engineer

- **Company:** UK Research and Innovation
- **Location:** Bristol, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £40,932.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Testing (Software), Automation of Tests, Selenium, Strategies of Testing, Performance Testing, Cypress (Programming Language), Playwright
- **Published:** September 18, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5888658010

## About the Role

* Proven experience in software testing and quality engineering within Agile delivery environments and working with multidisciplinary teams (S).
 * Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining automated test frameworks using modern automation tools such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Playwright or Cypress (S&I).
 * Experience integrating automated testing into CI/CD pipelines (S&I).
 * Experience applying risk-based testing methodologies and test strategies (I).
 * Experience coaching and mentoring testers and quality engineering professionals as well as contributing to testing communities of practice and continuous improvement initiatives (S&I).

## Description

As a Senior Test Engineer, you will:

 * Design, develop, maintain, and implement automated test solutions across multiple products and services.
 * Develop and maintain reusable test frameworks, tooling, and test assets that support efficient and consistent testing practices.
 * Ensure automated tests are integrated into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous quality assurance activities.
 * Apply a risk-based approach to testing and proactively identify, assess, communicate, and manage quality risks.
 * Analyse requirements, user stories, designs, technical specifications, and business processes to define effective test approaches and coverage.
 * Design and implement functional, integration, system, exploratory, regression, performance, and non-functional testing activities.
 * Collaborate closely with developers, business analysts, product managers, and partners to ensure quality is embedded from the outset.
 * Investigate defects and quality issues, ensuring that findings are clearly communicated and understood by both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
 * Promote modern engineering and testing practices across teams and projects.
 * Contribute to the development of testing standards, strategies, frameworks, and quality metrics.
 * Support the evaluation and adoption of new testing tools, technologies, and approaches.
 * Coach, mentor, and support other testers and team members to improve testing capability and quality outcomes.


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