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Opus 2

Senior Quality Engineer

Edinburgh , United Kingdom
full-time

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Collaborate within a cross-functional team to enhance software quality through automated testing, robust engineering practices, and proactive defect prevention methods.

The Senior Quality Engineer is an embedded member of a cross-functional engineering team responsible for enabling high-quality delivery through test automation, quality-focused engineering practices, and early defect prevention. Rather than acting as a gatekeeper, this role partners with developers, product managers, and designers to build quality into the product from the start.

What you'll be doing

  • Collaborate with developers to design testable solutions and integrate testing into development workflows.
  • Build, maintain, and improve automated test suites (unit, integration, API, E2E, performance where appropriate).
  • Develop and maintain testing frameworks/tools that improve speed, stability, and developer experience.
  • Embrace and spread shift-left testing practices — early identification and prevention of defects.
  • Support teams in writing Acceptance Tests and improving acceptance criteria clarity.
  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines to ensure fast, reliable feedback loops.
  • Analyse test failures, identify root causes, and partner with the team to resolve issues early.

Requirements

What we're looking for in you

Technical

  • Strong experience with automated testing: API, UI, integration, acceptance, unit.
  • Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., TypeScript, Java, C#, etc.).
  • Able to work in TDD / BDD using Mocks on production code
  • Hands-on experience with modern automation frameworks (e.g., Playwright, Cypress etc.).
  • Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tooling (GitHub Actions, Jenkins etc.).
  • Familiarity with microservices, cloud environments, and containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Awareness of non-functional requirements (e.g. security, performance etc.).

Quality Practices

  • Workshop facilitation (3 Amigos, Example Mapping etc.).
  • Write well defined Acceptance Criterias with cross-functional collaboration.
  • Strong understanding of testing principles, exploratory testing, and test design.
  • Shift-Left experience, preventing defects via early collaboration and specification refinement.

Soft Skills

  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
  • Proactive, curious, and able to challenge assumptions constructively.
  • Continuous improvement mindset

Benefits

Opus 2 is a global leader in legal software and services, trusted partner of the world’s leading legal teams. All our achievements are underpinned by our unique culture where our people are our most valuable asset. Working at Opus 2, you’ll receive:

  • Contributory pension plan.
  • 33 days annual holidays, flexible working, and length of service entitlement.
  • Health Insurance.
  • Loyalty Share Scheme.
  • Enhanced Maternity and Paternity.
  • Employee Assistance Programme.
  • Electric Vehicle Salary Sacrifice.
  • Cycle to Work Scheme.
  • Calm and Mindfulness sessions.
  • A day of leave to volunteer for charity and an active CSR team raising money towards a company charity.
  • Regular Company Social Events.
  • Yearly Development Retreat.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Health Insurance: Health Insurance.
  • Yearly Development Retreat: Yearly Development Retreat.
Opus 2

Opus 2 provides game-changing, cloud-based legal technology and services to connect people, case information, analysis and data throughout the lifecycle of a dispute. Our secure platform, tailor-made for lawyers, provides a connected and flexible way of working for case teams and their clients. Combined with our best-in-class services, we also deliver electronic trials and hearings worldwide. Opus 2 is headquartered in London and also has offices in San Francisco, Edinburgh and Singapore.Equal OpportunitiesOpus 2 International is an Equal Opportunities employer and applicants are selected solely on the basis of their relevant aptitudes, skills and abilities. No applicant shall receive less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, marital status, civil partnership status, trans-gender status, pregnancy, maternity, colour race, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, belief, sexual orientation, disability, age. This is not an exclusive listRecruitment Privacy PolicyOpus 2 is a privacy conscious organisation, committed to protecting the privacy of our people and those who seek employment with us. It is important to us that you understand what information we collect, how we use it and how we protect it. This information, alongside the rights available to you in respect of the personal data you share with us, is set out in our Privacy Policy and we would encourage you to read and ensure you understand it. Unfortunately, we are unable to respond to all applications. If you have not been contacted within one week of your application, then it is likely you have been unsuccessful.

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