Senior Software Quality Engineer

About us

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we’re helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term.

Why our customers love Dayshape:

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.
• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.
• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with.

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 Scotland ISawards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us.

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We’re a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk.

We’re looking for a Software Quality Engineer (Senior level or strong mid-level) to join our Product Engineering team as a flexible QE resource, able to work across multiple teams and problem spaces as our priorities evolve.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in changing environments, can quickly build context in new domains, and brings strong judgement when working with ambiguity and incomplete information.

You’ll work closely with engineers and product managers to shape how quality is approached, with a focus on identifying risks early, validating real user behaviour, and ensuring teams make informed decisions about what to ship.

A key part of the role is release confidence—making sure each release is well understood, risks are visible, and the team is aligned on whether it is ready to go out to customers.

Depending on the team and context, you may operate as the primary QE or work alongside another QE, sharing ownership of quality and collaborating on approach.

Rather than being tied to a single team long-term, you’ll move where you add the most value—initially supporting an existing product team and contributing to new initiatives as they ramp up.

You’ll also have opportunities to build or evolve quality processes from scratch, particularly in teams or areas where practices are still maturing.

We’re increasingly working with AI-powered systems and tools, and we expect you to actively use these to improve your efficiency, remove bottlenecks, and increase the signal from your testing activities.

• Work as a primary or joint QE within a team, owning or contributing to quality decisions and outcomes
• Define a clear testing approach for features and releases
• Drive release readiness, ensuring risks are understood and communicated before shipping
• Identify and communicate risks, gaps, and trade-offs
• Perform exploratory and user-focused testing to validate real behaviour
• Build or improve quality processes and practices, especially in new or evolving teams
• Partner with engineers and product to improve how quality is built into the product
• Use tools (including AI where appropriate) to increase efficiency and signal from testing activities
• Adapt quickly to new teams, domains, and problem spaces

• Strong in exploratory testing and risk‑based thinking
• Comfortable owning release quality and making judgement calls under pressure
• Able to identify gaps in process and introduce simple, effective…