QA Engineer

Job Description

Sage is a global leader in accounting, payroll, and financial management solutions. We empower businesses with innovative cloud-based software, simplifying and automating financial processes so they can thrive in a digital world.

We’re looking for a QA Engineer to join our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team within Cloud Services Engineering & Operations. In this role, you’ll play a key part in ensuring the reliability, performance, and resilience of our cloud-based accounting products, helping us deliver seamless, high-quality solutions to customers worldwide.

This is a hybrid role – three days per week in our Newcastle office.

Key Responsibilities What You’ll Do

•  Conduct performance, load, and stress testing to optimize system scalability and stability.
•  Collaborate with SREs, DevOps, and engineers to integrate QA best practices into CI/CD pipelines.
•  Develop, execute, and maintain automated test cases to ensure cloud software reliability.
•  Build and enhance test automation frameworks for cloud infrastructure and application reliability.
•  Support incident response efforts by diagnosing, documenting, and resolving production issues.
•  Drive resilience testing strategies, including chaos engineering, to strengthen system robustness.
•  Participate in Agile ceremonies, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives.
•  Coordinate User Acceptance Testing (UAT) to ensure smooth product releases.
•  Mentor junior QA engineers in automation, cloud QA, and SRE methodologies.
  
  
  
  
  
  

What We’re Looking For:

Must-Have Skills:

•  Proficiency in UI test automation (e.g., Selenium).
•  Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and test automation integration.
•  Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk).
•  Understanding of SRE principles, including reliability testing and fault tolerance.
•  Experience across the full testing lifecycle, from test planning to User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
  
  
  
  
  
  

Nice-to-Have Skills:

•  Experience in performance and load testing for cloud-based applications.
•  Understanding of AWS cloud services and cloud infrastructure testing.
•   Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and scripting languages (Python, Java, JavaScript).
•  Experience with containerized applications (Docker, Kubernetes).
•  Exposure to resilience testing tools (e.g., Chaos Monkey, Gremlin).
•  Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).