Senior Quality Engineer

Senior Quality Engineer

Help shape the future of assessment technology by leading quality engineering across two mission-critical Pearson platforms:
Exam Developer, our exam authoring and management platform, and OnVUE, our industry-leading remote proctoring and exam delivery solution. You will drive testing excellence, automation maturity, and release confidence across platforms that support the full assessment lifecycle, from exam creation through secure exam delivery.

Also known in the market as:
Senior QA Engineer, Senior Test Automation Engineer, Quality Engineering Lead, Senior Quality Engineer, Test Automation Lead.

As a Senior Quality Engineer, you will serve as a technical authority for quality across one or more product domains. You will lead quality strategy, test planning, automation initiatives, and release readiness efforts while partnering with engineering, product, architecture, Dev Ops, security, and operations teams.

This role combines hands-on testing and automation with leadership through influence. You will help solve complex quality challenges, strengthen automation practices, mentor fellow quality engineers, and ensure the reliability, security, accessibility, and scalability of products used by millions of learners, certification candidates, and testing organizations worldwide.

We are currently hiring multiple Senior Quality Engineer positions across our Exam Developer and OnVUE product teams:

• OnVue / Exam Developer - OnVUE offers a growth and governance opportunity across online proctoring and vendor partnerships. Exam Developer needs transformation, quality improvement and more sustainable processes. Final product alignment will be discussed during screening.

Together, these platforms support the assessment journey from exam creation to exam delivery, making quality engineering critical to both customer success and candidate experience.

• Lead test strategy and quality planning for new features, platform enhancements, and releases.

• Design comprehensive test approaches spanning functional, integration, regression, API, accessibility, negative, and end-to-end testing.

• Build, maintain, and improve automated testing coverage across web, API, and workflow scenarios.

• Perform hands‑on testing for complex, high‑risk, cross‑functional initiatives.

• Define and enforce quality gates and release readiness criteria.

• Lead defect triage, root cause analysis, retesting, and validation activities.

• Review automation and regression results, identify trends, and improve reliability and coverage.

• Partner with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, Developers, Dev Ops, Security, and Operations teams throughout the development lifecycle.

• Use metrics, production insights, telemetry, and defect trends to continuously improve quality practices.

• Mentor and coach quality engineers in automation design, test strategy, accessibility validation, and release readiness.

• Identify quality risks early and drive proactive mitigation plans.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.

• 5+ years of professional quality engineering, software testing, or test automation experience.

• Experience leading quality efforts for complex web-based, cloud-hosted, or customer-facing applications.

• Strong knowledge of test strategy, defect management, regression planning, and release validation.

• Demonstrated experience providing technical guidance and mentoring within Agile engineering teams.

• Strong understanding of automation-first testing principles and quality engineering best practices.

• Experience with Selenium, Web Driver, Playwright, or comparable automation…