Senior QA Engineer, Cancer Research
£50-55k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Posted today
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Posted today
£50-55k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experience of working in an agile environment
- Quality mindset with pragmatic, risk-based decision-making
- Strong stakeholder management and the ability to translate quality risks into business language
- Skilled in the design of functional acceptance, end-to-end, integration, and regression tests
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Working experience of AWS services, API(REST/SOAP/GraphQL), Web GUI and cross-browser testing
- Some of the Tools we like: Playwright, Playwright MCP, Axe, Vitest, Postman, Applitools, BrowserStack, Datadog, and GitHub Copilot
- Working experience of using Jira and Zephyr Scale for defect and test management
- Solid experience of using TypeScript
- Practical knowledge of non-functional testing types such as accessibility, performance and security testing
- Passion for exploratory testing
- Exceptional attention to detail required
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, and collaboration abilities
- An enthusiasm for new technologies with the ability to adapt and learn
- Confidence and initiative to evolve ideas and bring together pieces of work to produce changes
- An active interest in self-learning
- Exposure to AI tooling agentic and generative – prompts, guardrails, and review patterns
What the job involves
- Reports to: Lead QA Engineer
- As a Senior QA Engineer, you will be part of our Fundraising & Trading portfolio rotating across a range of change initiatives, products, and in-house solutions that helped raise £597m towards Cancer Research UK's life-saving work (e.g., our events management product which enables mass events such as Race for Life, London Marathon, SU2C, Shine; our Online Fundraising Web Application, our Ecommerce platforms, and many more).
- You will be involved in the whole Software Development Lifecycle process from initial planning to execution and monitoring
- You’ll partner closely with Product teams and end-users to ensure systems are operating effectively and safely by designing, developing, and maintaining test automation frameworks
- You’ll also support the QA team in moving away from manual testing to automated processes whilst supporting the development of our QA Engineers
- If you are a QA Engineer skilled in using Typescript within a test automation framework to drive automation, we would love for you to join our mission
- Getting involved in the entire Software Development Life Cycle process from initial planning to execution and monitoring
- Designing, developing, and maintaining test automation frameworks to efficiently catch bugs and ensure everything is running smoothly. Integrating automation suites into CI/CD pipelines
- Creating, reviewing, and executing high-quality test cases aligned to user stories, design guidelines, acceptance criteria, and business processes
- Interpreting and reporting testing results and being an ambassador for quality in every phase of the development process
- Developing deep expertise in the business products, understanding the core business functionalities and flows. Understanding the overall technical architecture and how each feature is implemented
- Creating testing related documentation such as test strategies, cases/scripts, and bug reports assessing quality and associated risk
- Being an advocate for quality and encouraging developers at all levels to write high quality, testable software
- Providing guidance and assistance on functional and non-functional testing
- Leveraging AI to accelerate test authoring, codebase quality, coverage and quality insights. Deciding when it is safe to use AI and where human intervention is needed
- Coaching and mentoring junior QA Engineers
- Ensure equality and diversity are celebrated and considered as part of all decisions taken
- Committed to Cancer Research UK’s vision to bring forward the day all cancers are cured
- Undertake other tasks as necessary to contribute to the team objectives and those of Cancer Research UK
Application process
- Closing date: 16 August 2026 at 23:55
- This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointmen
- Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews with the second interview including a technical exercise
- We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity, and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been long-standing pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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