Senior QA Engineer in Manchester

At Jacobs, we’re seeking a Senior QA Engineer to join our growing UK Digital & Data team. This is your chance to lead the charge in delivering high-quality digital solutions across sectors such as water, transportation, defence, and government, ensuring the reliability and performance of critical systems.

As a Senior QA Engineer, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping testing strategies, driving automation, and mentoring junior team members. Working within multidisciplinary agile teams, you’ll collaborate with developers, product specialists, and stakeholders to champion quality throughout the software development lifecycle. This is an opportunity to influence technical delivery and grow your expertise in modern automation frameworks, cloud technologies, and continuous delivery practices.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the design, development, and maintenance of automated and manual test solutions.
• Define testing requirements and acceptance criteria in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Conduct functional, regression, integration, and non-functional testing activities.
• Mentor junior QA engineers and contribute to knowledge sharing within the wider engineering community.

Here's what you'll need:

• Proven experience with automation frameworks like Cypress, Selenium, or Cucumber.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD tools, functional testing techniques, and defect tracking systems.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a collaborative environment.

This role is subject to UK Security Vetting at SC (security check) level. Applicants must be willing to undergo the appropriate security clearance process if not already cleared. If you’re successful in your application, we’ll ask you to undergo the relevant vetting process to achieve SC/DV clearance.

This is a full time, permanent, hybrid (2-3 days/week) role, with occasional business travel across the UK. Full‑time employment at Jacobs is based on a 40‑hour working week. We place a strong emphasis on work‑life balance and flexibility, and flexi-time is available. We offer an excellent and wide range of employee benefits including comprehensive Health Cover, Life Assurance, Income Protection, holiday buy/sell scheme, and a variety of wellbeing, family, parental and fertility support offerings, along with an enhanced contribution pension scheme.

Joining Jacobs not only connects you locally but globally. Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and belonging. We put people at the heart of our business, and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees.

We aim to embed inclusion and belonging in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected and creative. We accept people for who they are, and we champion the richness of different perspectives, lived experiences and backgrounds in the workplace, as a source of learning and innovation.