Senior QA Engineer (we have office locations in Cambridge, Leeds and London)

Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare. Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives. By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benefits and advances for the future.

Our mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations. We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody. Behind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems.

Are you a Senior QA Engineer passionate about solving complex quality assurance challenges using test automation throughout the SDLC, and across all levels of the test pyramid? Then join our exciting new Test Enablement team, formed to address organisation wide testing challenges, where you will bring demonstrable, and hands-on experience to partner with product teams, driving meaningful, measurable improvements in quality assurance and testing.

This is where you will build reusable testing tools and automation, make and influence strategic tooling choices, establish quality assurance Golden Paths, and play a leading role in maturing testing practices across the organisation. You always take a big picture view of the challenges that come with testing complex, distributed applications in a regulated environment, and use your proven experience to improve the reliability and speed of software delivery through accelerated and optimised testing.

In this role, you’ll partner closely with engineers in product squads to test, evolve and scale common solutions. Drawing on a strong analytical mindset, decisions are driven by data and evidence, ensuring well-reasoned outcomes. Your confidence and credibility will be key when engaging with subject matter experts and engineering leadership, using your experience to influence key outcomes. Your curiosity and active listening help uncover root causes of testing challenges, while constructively challenging assumptions ensures you consistently champion best practice across teams. Keeping pace with developments in testing tools and techniques, you focus on continuous improvement and bringing practical, actionable innovation into the organisation. Engaging with a broad range of stakeholders, you translate organisational needs into clear insights and initiatives that really strengthen QA and testing practices.

Everyday responsibilities include:

• Work with the Test Enablement team to identify areas of greatest need where senior expertise can have the most impact
• Collaborate with QA engineers in product squads to raise the bar in testing maturity and effectiveness
• Evaluate different approaches to testing challenges, clearly articulating trade-offs, strengths and limitations
• Create templates, tools and Golden Paths that capture proven best practice for use across the organisation
• Act as a trusted mentor, coach and technical authority within the team and wider engineering community
• Lead and influence key decisions in a collaborative and inclusive environment
• Advocate for modern, effective quality assurance practices that improve release speed, confidence and reliability

Essential skills and experience:

• Strong, demonstrable experience with Python
• Strong, demonstrable experience with Java
• Selenium WebDriver
• Unit test frameworks such as Pytest
• API testing using tools such as REST Assured and Postman
• BDD frameworks such as Cucumber, Pytest bdd or Behave
• Agile testing practices
• CI/CD tooling including GitLab and Jenkins
• Load and performance testing using tools such as JMeter or Locust
• Proven experience in test process improvement and test strategy ownership

Desirable skills and experience:

• Other UI testing tools such as Playwright or Cypress
• Contract testing using tools such as PACT
• Mock APIs using WireMock
• Browser compatibility tools such as BrowserStack
• Test management tools such as Jira Xray
• Accessibility testing tools such as Axe core
• Security testing tools such as Snyk or OWASP Zap
• AWS
• Experience working in a regulated environment

This is a role for a hands-on senior QA professional ready to lead, mentor, and drive meaningful improvements in QA engineering across complex, distributed systems.

Only relevant work experience in Senior QA, and both Java and Python is required - no specific qualifications needed.

Salary From: £55,500

Closing Date: Sunday 15th February at 23:00 (UK time)

Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including: Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus