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About FleetCheck

At FleetCheck we believe that everyone has the right to be safe on the roads and we are all about making a difference to road safety. Our business was created to improve the safety of drivers and vehicles by providing the tools and support that promote professional fleet management.

Our business is all about serving others, focused on a common good and we get there through consideration and respect for each other. Our customers trust us to deliver excellent. They trust us because they experience outstanding software provided by people who are dependable and prepared to go that extra mile.

This is a growing business, and we need people who are open to new opportunities and experiences, ready to learn new things and help drive the business forward. The enthusiasm, honesty, and openness here is infectious and it helps us hit problems head on and be determined to find the best solutions.

The Senior QA Engineer is responsible for the quality and reliability of FleetCheck’s software by owning the end-to-end test automation strategy, setting quality standards, and driving continuous improvement across the QA practice. The role combines deep technical expertise in automated testing with the ability to influence engineering culture and shape how quality is delivered across the product.

Key Responsibilities

Automation Strategy & Delivery

• Own and maintain the end-to-end test automation strategy for FleetCheck, including scope, framework architecture, tooling choices, and roadmap.
• Design, build, and maintain a robust automated test suite covering UI, API, and data validation scenarios, and integrate tests into CI/CD pipelines to support release readiness.

Manual Testing

• Design, develop, and execute manual test cases for web and mobile applications, including functional, regression, and exploratory testing.
• Validate UI/UX, data integrity, and API functionality across multiple environments.
• Author feature-level and epic-level test strategies that are agreed with the product and development teams before testing begins.

Process & Documentation

• Author and maintain the overarching QA strategy for FleetCheck, covering both manual and automated testing.
• Create and improve team templates for test cases, defect reports, and test strategies, ensuring consistent standards across the QA function.
• Define and track QA process metrics to drive continuous improvement, reporting findings regularly and using data to inform process changes.

Collaboration & Communication

• Collaborate with all members of the Scrum development team to implement solutions and quality improvements to the FleetCheck software.
• Proactively surface quality risks during sprint refinement and planning, not just after defects are found.
• Communicate quality status, automation progress, and strategic recommendations clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate in Scrum ceremonies including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, refinement, and retrospectives.
• Document defects and track resolution using Jira, and own the standards for how defects are logged and managed across the QA function.

Leadership & Knowledge Sharing

• Serve as the recognised go-to authority for test automation at FleetCheck, setting the standard for how automated testing is approached and maintained.
• Contribute QA and automation items to the engineering roadmap with clear rationale and effort estimates.
• Support and mentor other QA team members, sharing knowledge of automation practices and helping to raise the overall quality capability of the team.

General Accountabilities

• Act in a courteous, professional, and ethical manner in all interactions with customers, suppliers, and colleagues.
• Advise line manager on matters relating to workload, work progress, and quality risks.
• Contribute positively to improvement initiatives.
• Comply with FleetCheck’s values, service levels, policies, and legislative requirements.
• Be flexible, operate as a member of the Scrum team, and contribute to other activities when required.

Skills & Experience

• 3+ years proven experience in software quality assurance with a strong foundation in manual testing across web applications.
• Hands-on experience writing and maintaining automated test suites using Playwright and TypeScript.
• Solid understanding of software testing principles including functional, regression, exploratory, and API testing.
• Experience with test framework architecture and best practices, such as the page object model pattern.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and the ability to integrate automated tests into build and deployment processes.
• Strong documentation skills, including the ability to write clear test strategies, runbooks, and process guides.
• Experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery teams.
• Confident communicator, able to present quality risks and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Rewards and additional information

• Base salary will be in the region of £45,000-55,000k pa.
• The normal contractual working week is 37.5 hours; a standard day is 7.5 hours.
• The work pattern is fixed hours of 9.00am to 5.00pm with 0.5 hour lunch break.
• The annual holiday entitlement based on the above working pattern is 25 days – rising to 28 days with length of service.
• 1 additional days holiday per month on a Friday (FleetCheck Friday), pro rata entitlement for part time employees.
• Contributory pension.
• Staff can work in a hybrid pattern, Monday to Wednesday being office based; with the option to work from home on Thursdays and Fridays if agreed with their line manager.
• Other benefits include - staff/team functions, including Summer & Winter events, monthly charity cake bakes, monthly staff meetings, annual appraisals, access to Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Mental Health First Aiders, free parking.
• The organisation continuously evolves to provide broader and more proactive customer care. As such the roles and their terms and conditions will be subject to ongoing review and change.
• FleetCheck are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer and a Living Wage Employer.

Successful candidates will be required to undertake a BPSS check.

Note that the FleetCheck offices are not serviced by public transport. You will need a full clean driving licence and a car to work here.