Senior QA Engineer Glasgow, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom Information Technology (IT)

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description: We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior QA Engineer to join our UK QA team. The ideal candidate will be capable of working autonomously across the full testing lifecycle, from requirements analysis and test planning through to execution, reporting, and automation. The role requires an individual who can collaborate effectively with project teams and stakeholders, understand business and technical requirements, identify risks, define appropriate test approaches, and deliver high-quality testing outcomes with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will contribute to the continuous improvement of quality engineering practices, test automation capabilities, and the adoption of innovative technologies, including AI-assisted testing approaches.

Role accountabilities:

• Collaborate with project teams and stakeholders to understand requirements, identify risks and define appropriate test approaches.
• Produce test estimates and contribute to project planning and delivery activities.
• Create and maintain formal testing artefacts, including Test Strategies, Test Plans, Test Specifications, and Test Reports, aligned with contractual and regulatory delivery requirements.
• Ensure appropriate test coverage through risk-based testing, requirements traceability, and quality assurance best practices.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance automated test suites and supporting frameworks using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Identify opportunities to improve quality, efficiency and coverage through automation, tooling, process improvements and AI-assisted solutions.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in software quality assurance.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.
• Experience leading or coordinating testing activities across software projects.
• Experience analysing requirements, assessing testing risks, estimating testing effort, and defining test approaches.
• Experience creating and maintaining formal, auditable testing documentation in contractual, client-facing, or regulated delivery environments.
• Strong hands-on experience developing and maintaining test automation using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Experience testing web applications, APIs, and integrated systems.
• Experience writing and executing SQL queries, with the ability to understand database structures and interrogate data for validation and analysis.

Desirable Skills & Experience:

• ISTQB certification or equivalent.
• Experience testing within an Intelligent Transport Systems environment.
• Experience implementing test automation within CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience working within regulated or contractual delivery environments.
• Experience using AI-assisted tools to improve testing, automation and the software delivery process.

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together. You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you. Together, we can create a lasting legacy. Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging: We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people. We believe that by working together diverse people with different experiences develop the most innovative ideas. Equality, diversity and inclusion is at the heart of how we improve quality of life and we work closely with our people across six ED&I Workstreams: Age, Disability, Faith, Gender, LGBT+ and Race. A diverse and skilled workforce is essential to our success.