Senior Quality Engineer (EdTech)

TL;DR

Senior Quality Engineer (EdTech): Driving quality outcomes across multiple product engineering teams by leveraging automation with an accent on mobile automation for React Native apps, defining mobile quality signals, and scaling shift-left practices. Focus on building maintainable automation suites, leading system-level risk assessment, and improving automation health for critical journeys.

Location: Remote. Unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Salary: £60,000 - £65,000

Company

hirify.global is on a mission to transform schools by providing MIS and school management tools that help staff and turn data into actionable insights across over 7,000 schools and trusts.

What you will do

• Drive quality outcomes across multiple product engineering teams through automation.
• Build and scale mobile automation for two React Native apps, delivering a maintainable suite.
• Define mobile quality signals and coverage across iOS and Android, prioritising high-risk user journeys.
• Lead system-level risk thinking and shape lean test strategies.
• Set clear quality standards and scalable validation patterns for teams.
• Own automation health for critical journeys, improving reliability and maintainability.

Requirements

• Proven experience delivering and maintaining stable UI and API automation, ideally using Playwright with JavaScript.
• Demonstrated success delivering and maintaining a mobile automation suite from scratch.
• Experience testing mobile apps built with React Native and automating across iOS and Android, ideally using an AI-first approach.
• Experience designing, evolving, and setting standards for automation frameworks and patterns.
• Experience working in complex, large-scale systems, with ability to anticipate risk and drive quality outcomes.
• Confident working with data and databases (e.g. MySQL) to support debugging and investigations.
• Right to work in the UK (visa sponsorship is not available).

Culture & Benefits

• Dedicated wellbeing team championing mindfulness, lunch & learns, and mental health first aid training.
• 32 days holiday plus Bank Holidays.
• Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary.
• Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, including 24/7 virtual GP and mental health support.
• Private Dental Insurance with Bupa.
• Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows.
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay).
• Dedicated professional development training budget.
• Flexible working championed and discussed with candidates.
• Dog friendly offices.

Hiring process

• Phone screen
• 1st stage interview
• 2nd stage interview