SeniorQualityEngineer

Senior quality engineering at Opus 2 is hands-on, high-trust, and works across teams. You'll lead complex, often ambiguous quality work from problem to production, coach squads to own their own quality, raise the bar on the engineers around you, and help shape how we build software in a moment where AI is changing the work week to week. You'll build quality into how multiple squads, and the wider organisation, design, ship, and operate software, as part of the Quality Engineering enablement function. You can grow toward Principal QE or staff-level technical leadership from here. This is an IC role, and the day-to-day is engineering with influence, not management. ### What you'll do * **Lead complex, often ambiguous quality work across teams.** Discovery, risk analysis, test design, automation strategy, exploratory passes, and the production signal that tells you whether you got it right. You're not the squad's tester; you're the person who makes the squad better at being its own tester. * **Shape quality approaches that squads can adopt.** What gets unit tested, what gets API tested, what gets UI tested, what gets exploratory time, what gets watched in production. You coach squads through those calls and harvest what works so other teams can pick it up. * **Identify tooling gaps and close them.** Where teams keep tripping over the same problem (missing test data, slow feedback, unreliable environments, no good way to test a new kind of feature), you spot it, frame the work, and either lead it or hand it off in a state someone else can run with. * **Partner with Product and Design.** Run 3 Amigos and Example Mapping. Translate user needs into well-defined acceptance criteria. Call quality and risk trade-offs early. Keep the roadmap honest about what's feasible to ship with confidence. * **Raise the bar on the team around you, and beyond.** Thoughtful code and test review, pairing where it helps, mentoring mid-level and junior QEs and developers. The kind of "shows th