Senior Quality Assurance Engineer in Newcastle upon Tyne

At MHR, our employees are central to our success and play a key role in helping customers achieve sustainable high performance. With a team of over 900 professionals, we work to make things flow smoothly, whether it’s for large organisations or individual employees. As businesses face rapid changes in the world of work, our team is here to help them adapt and thrive.

By focusing on the core needs of efficiency, productivity, growth, and impact, our employees use their expertise to deliver real solutions through our People and Finance platform. This system, which covers finance, HR, payroll, and learning, helps businesses run more smoothly and make better decisions in real time.

With over 40 years of experience behind us, MHR’s track record as a high-performance organisation is built on clear goals, a shared vision, and strong communication - all of which we pass on to our customers. MHR is more than just a place to work; it’s a platform for empowerment. Joining us means bringing innovation, technology, and teamwork seamlessly removes obstacles, enhances your skills, and allows you to focus on what’s most important to you - work that matters.

With us, you’ll grow, find your flow, and make a lasting difference in your career, your team, and your impact.

Your career: MHR is offering an exciting opportunity for a Principal QA Engineer to join one of our innovative software delivery teams. This is a fantastic time to join, we have ambitious plans to grow our market leading HR and Payroll SaaS solution and are revising our quality and test automation strategy to match.

Your team: It’s a great opportunity to help shape software quality and test automation for a large engineering department, and see your own skills and experience develop rapidly. Our teams operate using Agile development practices, we promote collaboration, continuous improvement and self-development. We also have an established, supportive, and welcoming QA community.

Your Impact: You will lead and influence delivery-team quality and test engineering decisions, designing and optimising test automation for complex systems while raising the overall standard of QA engineering. Drive technology choices that enable fast-paced, high-quality delivery, ensuring quality practices scale effectively alongside the product and engineering organisation.

• Experience using an object-oriented software language
• Experience using version control tools, branching strategies, following and improving coding standards
• At least 3 years’ experience designing, developing and managing test automation frameworks for DevOps Pipelines for a range of testing problems: UI, API, Functionality, Performance, Usability, Reliability, Compatibility
• Expertise in designing Functional test strategies including entire applications and sub-components e.g. APIs
• Technical leadership experience: contributing to and managing standards, patterns and best practice at a community level; engaging in the technical development of others
• Experience testing decoupled or asynchronous application architecture e.g. event/message driven
• Playwright, Typescript, K6 (key elements of our testing frameworks)
• Software Engineering experience e.g. contributing to feature development in a fungible agile team

Please note: This is a single vacancy advertised across our Nottingham and Newcastle locations.

Benefits to support you personally and professionally: Alongside the opportunity to work with an incredible team and express your individuality, we offer a range of personalised benefits including:

• Access to over 60 internal training courses, professional qualifications, and cross-departmental mentoring and coaching programs
• 24/7 access to a GP through Help at Hand for you and your family, confidential mental health support, and paid sick leave
• Ability to purchase or sell additional holiday days beyond 25 days and bank holidays
• Enhanced Family leave
• My MHRewards offering discounts at over 900 retailers
• Monthly employee recognition program and departmental awards
• Referral bonus scheme of up to £2,000
• Employee-led social events such as running clubs, football teams, book clubs, and bake-offs
• On-site subsidised restaurants offering a variety of fresh meals daily
• Opt-in benefits schemes such as private medical insurance and dental coverage

We value the well-being, financial stability, and inclusivity of our employees, and strive to provide a supportive working environment. At MHR, we’re completely committed to creating a supportive and inclusive workplace where all voices are heard, and everyone feels valued and supported. Whatever your background, abilities and experiences, if you’re excited by this role we want to hear from you. If you require assistance for an interview, please let us know and we’ll make sure your needs are met when you arrive.

If we receive an exceptionally high volume of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy earlier than originally advertised.