Senior QA Engineer

Music is Universal

Its the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the worlds leading music company. From A&R to finance legal to digital sales to marketing Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender race disability sexual orientation religion belief age marital status background pregnancy or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism dyslexia ADHD and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment workplaces and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition please email

Core Skills

A senior QA engineer should act as a quality leader mentor and strategic contributor across delivery teams.

• Strong ownership of overall product or platform quality

• Ability to define QA strategy test approach and release quality standards

• Excellent analytical and critical-thinking skills

• Strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Ability to influence engineering teams without relying on authority

• Confidence challenging requirements and delivery plans where quality risks exist

• Strong risk-based decision-making

• Ability to balance delivery speed with quality maintainability security and scalability

• Mentoring and coaching of junior and mid-level QA engineers

• Ability to lead defect triage root-cause analysis and continuous improvement activities

• Strong stakeholder management across product engineering architecture DevOps and delivery teams

• Ability to translate business requirements into testable acceptance criteria

• Strong facilitation skills in refinement planning retrospectives and release readiness discussions

• Proactive approach to identifying gaps in process tooling environments and automation coverage

• Ability to promote a shared quality mindset across the team

• Strong documentation skills for test strategies automation standards release risks and quality reports

• Comfortable making pragmatic trade-offs in complex delivery environments

• Ability to support high-quality delivery of solutions that are fit for purpose maintainable robust scalable and secure

Technical Skills

Test Automation & Strategy

• Strong experience designing building and maintaining test automation frameworks

• Ability to select appropriate tools for UI API integration contract performance and end-to-end testing

• Strong programming ability in C# JavaScript TypeScript or another relevant automation language

• Deep understanding of automation patterns such as Page Object Model Screenplay API client abstraction test fixtures reusable test data builders and service mocks

• Ability to design automation that is scalable maintainable reliable and suitable for CI/CD

• Experience reducing flaky tests and improving automation execution speed

• Ability to define automation standards coding guidelines and review test code

UI Testing

• Good understanding of web application testing especially Angular-based applications

• Experience testing UI behaviour forms validation routing authentication flows and browser compatibility

• Ability to write or maintain automated UI tests using tools such as Playwright Cypress Selenium or similar

• Basic understanding of HTML CSS JavaScript and browser developer tools

• Ability to define frontend test coverage across unit component integration UI and end-to-end layers

• Experience testing complex user journeys state management routing validation authentication and accessibility

• Ability to advise on testability improvements in frontend code

API Testing

• Experience testing REST APIs

• Strong knowledge of REST API testing including authentication authorisation routing middleware behaviour configuration validation and error handling

• Good understanding of C# application architecture

• Ability to test service boundaries integrations retries failure modes and resilience patterns

• Ability to contribute to test strategy for micro-services and distributed systems

• Ability to use tools such as Postman Swagger Insomnia or REST-assured-style frameworks

• Ability to validate API contracts error handling edge cases and integration points

• Experience with contract testing service virtualisation mocking and stubbing

Cloud DevOps CI/CD & Version Control

• Experience using cloud platforms such as AWS Azure or Google Cloud

• Ability to test applications deployed to cloud-based environments

• Understanding of configuration differences across dev test staging and production-like environments

• Strong experience integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines

• Ability to define quality gates in GitHub Actions Azure Pipelines AWS pipelines or similar

• Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes from a testing and deployment perspective

Database Data Testing

• Strong SQL skills for test data setup validation and investigation

• Experience testing systems that use Redis Elasticsearch or other NoSQL technologies

• Ability to test caching indexing search accuracy data consistency and data migration scenarios

• Ability to design robust test data strategies across integrated environments

Quality Engineering Practices

• Strong understanding of test design techniques including boundary value analysis equivalence partitioning decision tables and exploratory testing

• Ability to create clear test cases test scenarios and acceptance criteria

• Understanding of Agile delivery and working within Scrum or Kanban teams

About UMG UK

We are Universal Music Group UK the UKs leading music-based entertainment company. We exist to shape culture through the power of artistry. We help UK artists produce distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to inspire and entertain fans at home and around the world.

Bonus Tracks: Your Benefits

• Group Personal Pension Scheme (between 3% and 9%)

• Private Medical Insurance

• 25 paid days of annual leave

• Interest Free Season Ticket Loan

• Holiday Purchase scheme

• Dental and Travel Insurance options

• Cycle to Work Scheme

• Salary Sacrifice Cars

• Subsidised Gym Membership

• Employee Discounts (Reward Gateway)

Just So You Know

The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholders specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent definitive and exhaustive statement.