Quality EngineerTech for Good | Edinburgh (£60,000)


NO SPONSORSHIP PROVIDED SADLY
Are you an experienced Quality Engineer who wants to measurably improve software quality, reduce late-stage defects, and increase confidence in releases?
Our Edinburgh-based tech-for-good client is building high-scale digital platforms that make a real, positive impact. They’re looking for a Quality Engineer who sees quality as a system-wide capability, not a final testing phase.
This is not a traditional QA role. You won’t be executing test scripts or acting as a gatekeeper. Instead, you’ll enable teams to take shared ownership of quality, using metrics, automation, and real production signals to continuously improve how software is built and released.
What you’ll do*Reduce late-stage defects by identifying risks early across design, data flows, integrations, and scale
*Increase release confidence using quality gates driven by metrics and real system behaviour
*Ensure services, integrations, and data pipelines remain stable under load and high volume
*Embed automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing
*Use observability (logs, metrics, traces) to validate behaviour and detect issues in production
*Act as a trusted quality partner, helping teams build resilient, testable, observable systems
What we’re looking for*5+ years’ experience as a modern Quality Engineer in CI/CD-driven environments
*Strong experience designing risk-based testing strategies (unit, integration, contract, end-to-end)
*Solid understanding of how systems behave under scale, load, and high data throughput
*Background in B2C, SaaS, or high-traffic environments where failures have real impact
*Comfort working with quality and reliability metrics (e.g. MTTR, failure rates, performance thresholds)
Why this role?*Purpose-driven technology with real social impact
*A culture that values engineering excellence and continuous improvement
*The opportunity to shape how quality is embedded end-to-end, from design to production
*Edinburgh-based with flexible/hybrid working
If you’re passionate about building reliable systems that matter, and want to move quality upstream and downstream-not just test at the end-we’d love to talk.