Senior QA Engineer

All About Us

At Purplebricks, we’re not your average estate agency. We’re flipping the script on the property game using smart tech, fresh ideas, and a serious focus on people to make buying and selling homes smoother, faster, and actually enjoyable.

We’re all about keeping things real. Real support. Real flexibility. Real opportunities. We know success doesn’t come from standing still and neither do we. If you're hungry to grow, driven to succeed, and ready to be rewarded for it, this could be the start of something big. We’re big fans of promoting from within, so your first role here might just be the first step in a much bigger journey.

What Is a Senior QA Engineer?

The primary role of our quality assurance engineers is to ensure our teams deliver products that meet the needs of our users. You’ll champion quality and help keep your squad accountable for the quality and completeness of their output, and work with them to improve practices. Most of your time will be spent working with the squad’s designers and developers but you’ll also be testing products manually and – when appropriate – helping to craft automated tests or use modern AI tooling to help us be the best that we can.

You'll be joining a multi-skilled product squad, working with back and front-end developers, designers and a product manager.

You'll actively participate in the usual Agile ceremonies and as a team you’ll be delivering backlog items over six-week sprints. Our QA engineers participate in product planning and refinement – you’ll be involved as new work is planned out. Each squad feels a real sense of ownership over their work and we're always striving to improve our maturity.

What Skills Are You Bringing To The Team?

• 5+ years' experience in a quality engineering or assurance role.
• Understanding of an agile development environment.
• Keen to contribute to improving tooling, practices and process.
• Confident in communicating with developers, designers, and with business owners.
• Capable of writing acceptance criteria that can be understood by all roles.
• Testing web and mobile apps.
• Exploratory testing.
• Creating and maintaining test plans.
• Interested in exploring new technologies and techniques.
• Tenacious with an enquiring mind!
• Experience or exposure to a wide range of testing tools across functional, API and load testing.
• Experience mentoring or supporting more junior engineers.

Nice to have

• Experience with Azure DevOps.
• Any exposure to test automation is a plus — we're moving more towards using more automation so any experience with tools such as Cypress, BrowserStack and Postman would be beneficial.
• Experience leading or mentoring a small QA team is a plus
• Experience using AI tooling to accelerate test design, generation, or execution

You don't need to tick all the items on the list, or even lots of them, it's a guide.

What Will You Be Accountable For?

• Own the test strategy for your squad — defining what to test, how, and when, with a strong focus on manual and exploratory testing.
• Plan and run exploratory and scripted testing across web and mobile applications.
• Create and maintain test plans, ensuring coverage matches the risk profile of what's being shipped.
• Spot opportunities to introduce lightweight automation or AI tooling where it would genuinely save time — but the bar for adding it is high, and most testing remains manual and exploratory.
• Partner with developers, designers and the product manager from planning through release — writing clear acceptance criteria and surfacing risks early.
• Mentor and support more junior QA engineers, raising the quality bar across the engineering team.
• Contribute to continuous improvement of our QA practices, tools and processes.

What Success Looks Like:

Quality is owned by the squad, developers and designers think about test coverage and edge cases up front because you've embedded that mindset. Releases ship with confidence; fewer escaped defects, faster regression cycles, and the team trusts what goes to production. Where automation or AI tooling would clearly pay off, you've made the case and helped introduce it. Junior engineers grow under your guidance, you're a visible mentor and the QA discipline across the team levels up because of you. You're a trusted voice in planning, PMs and engineers seek your input early, not at the end.

How Will We Measure Success:

We'll know this role is working when escaped defects drop release-over-release and regression cycles get faster from code-complete to release-ready.

We'll also look for positive feedback from squad members on QA's contribution to planning and delivery, and visible growth and progression of the junior engineers you mentor.