qa engineer (auto) for music platforms

Universal Music Group UK is the UK's leading music-based entertainment company. It shapes culture through artistry and helps UK artists produce, distribute, and promote critically acclaimed and commercially successful music for audiences worldwide.

• Act as a quality leader, mentor, and strategic contributor across delivery teams;
• Own overall product or platform quality;
• Define QA strategy, test approaches, release quality standards, and automation standards;
• Lead defect triage, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement activities;
• Influence engineering teams and challenge requirements or delivery plans where quality risks exist;
• Balance delivery speed with quality, maintainability, security, and scalability;
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level QA engineers;
• Manage stakeholders across product, engineering, architecture, DevOps, and delivery teams;
• Translate business requirements into testable acceptance criteria;
• Facilitate refinement, planning, retrospectives, and release readiness discussions;
• Identify gaps in processes, tooling, environments, and automation coverage;
• Promote a shared quality mindset across the team;
• Document test strategies, automation standards, release risks, and quality reports;
• Design, build, and maintain test automation frameworks;
• Select tools for UI, API, integration, contract, performance, and end-to-end testing;
• Design scalable, maintainable, and reliable automation suitable for CI/CD;
• Reduce flaky tests and improve automation execution speed;
• Define frontend test coverage across unit, component, integration, UI, and end-to-end layers;
• Write or maintain automated UI tests;
• Test complex user journeys, state management, routing, validation, authentication, and accessibility;
• Advise on testability improvements in frontend code;
• Test REST APIs, service boundaries, integrations, retries, failure modes, and resilience patterns;
• Contribute to test strategy for micro-services and distributed systems;
• Validate API contracts, error handling, edge cases, and integration points;
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and define quality gates;
• Test applications deployed to cloud-based environments;
• Test caching, indexing, search accuracy, data consistency, and data migration scenarios;
• Design robust test data strategies across integrated environments;
• Create test cases, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria.

• Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills;
• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Strong risk-based decision-making and pragmatic trade-off skills;
• Strong programming ability in C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, or another relevant automation language;
• Deep understanding of Page Object Model, Screenplay, API client abstraction, test fixtures, reusable test data builders, and service mocks;
• Good understanding of web application testing, especially Angular-based applications;
• Experience testing UI behaviour, forms, validation, routing, authentication flows, and browser compatibility;
• Basic understanding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and browser developer tools;
• Experience testing REST APIs and strong knowledge of API authentication, authorisation, routing, middleware behaviour, configuration, validation, and error handling;
• Good understanding of C# and .NET application architecture;
• Experience with contract testing, service virtualisation, mocking, and stubbing;
• Experience using cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud;
• Understanding of configuration differences across development, test, staging, and production-like environments;
• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes from a testing and deployment perspective;
• Strong SQL skills for test data setup, validation, and investigation;
• Experience testing systems that use Redis, Elasticsearch, or other NoSQL technologies;
• Strong understanding of boundary value analysis, equivalence partitioning, decision tables, exploratory testing, Agile delivery, Scrum, and Kanban;
• Nice to have: Experience with Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman, Swagger, Insomnia, REST-assured-style frameworks, GitHub Actions, Azure Pipelines, AWS pipelines, and Angular.

• Group Personal Pension Scheme between 3% and 9%;
• Private Medical Insurance;
• 25 Paid days of annual leave;
• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan;
• Holiday.