QA Engineer
We are seeking a collaborative QA Engineer to support quality practices within a delivery team. This role reports directly to the team’s Engineering Manager. You will work closely with Software Developers, Product, and Tech Leads to ensure tests are applied at the right level of the testing pyramid, focusing on effective coverage, risk mitigation, and exploratory testing to uncover issues that automated or scripted tests may miss. You will support shift-left testing by considering testability early in designs and features and helping the team validate functionality before it reaches production. You will contribute to observability-led quality, using monitoring, metrics, and logging to understand system reliability, performance, and user experience in production. By leveraging these insights, you will help the team identify risks early, report issues effectively, and support continuous improvement of delivery outcomes. You will exercise sound judgment in balancing risk, speed, and coverage, collaborate with QA colleagues and engineers, and follow established processes and practices to maintain quality, consistency, and effectiveness within the team. Your work will help ensure confident releases and support a culture of quality-first engineering.
- Expertise in applying QA processes and best practices within a delivery team to ensure quality outcomes.
- Expertise in executing tests at the right level of the testing pyramid, balancing unit, integration, and end-to-end testing.
- Expertise in supporting shift-left testing by validating testability early in designs and features.
- Expertise in performing exploratory testing to uncover defects and validate real-world usage scenarios.
- Expertise in contributing to observability-led quality, leveraging monitoring, metrics, logging, and alerts to understand system reliability and performance.
- Experience of identifying and reporting risks, issues, and defects to support informed team decisions.
- Experience of participating in continuous improvement by suggesting refinements to QA processes and practices.
- Experience of collaborating with Product, UX, Tech Leads, and Engineers to ensure QA practices are consistently applied.
- Knowledge of test automation tools and strategies, supporting automation efforts as guided by senior team members.
- Knowledge of tracking and reporting quality metrics, defects, and risks to support team delivery.
- Knowledge of balancing risk, speed, and coverage to support timely and reliable releases.
- Shift left testing (required)
- Testability (required)
- Shift right testing (required)
- Agile ways of working (required)
- Exploratory testing (required)
- SQL (required)
- API testing (required)
- Automation (nice-to-have)
- Open API (nice-to-have)
- A competitive rate of pay and pension contribution (£37,000 - £46,500).
- Generous discretionary bonus schemes, incentives and competitions.
- An annual leave entitlement that increases with length of service.
- Access to an online GP 24/7, 365 days a year for you and your immediate family.
- Employee wellbeing support through our Employee Assistance Programme.
- Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Pay.
- Long Service Recognition.
- Access to a pay day savings scheme, financial coach and up to 40% of your earned wage ahead of payday, through Wagestream.
Betfred is a betting and gaming company that has operated for over 50 years, founded by Fred and Peter Done. It runs more than 1,300 betting shops and employs around 9,500 people, combining a large retail estate with online sports betting and gaming. In 2019 it entered the US sports betting market as Betfred Sportsbook, now operating in several states, and has established a presence in South Africa, where it holds a majority stake in the online betting company LottoStar. Headquartered in Warrington, England, Betfred emphasises customer service and responsible gambling across its operations.