QA Engineer

Are you a QA Engineer or SDET with strong Playwright experience who enjoys working closely with engineers and product stakeholders, shaping quality from the earliest stages, and having real ownership of how testing is done?

We are hiring for a QA Engineer to help ensure these platforms are reliable, accessible, and genuinely high quality. You'll play a key role in guiding testing approaches, risk decision and how quality is understood over time.


The salary for this position is £47,500 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

We are hiring for a QA Engineer to help ensure these platforms are reliable, accessible, and genuinely high quality. You'll play a key role in guiding testing approaches, risk decision and how quality is understood over time.

The salary for this position is £47,500 per annum and we operate a hybrid working policy of a minimum of 2 days per week in the office.

In line with our EDI strategy and Total Reward policy, we calculate our salaries based on benchmarking data across the charity sector. To ensure fairness for existing staff and new joiners, we do not offer salaries above the advertised rate.

Key Responsibilities

• Building and maintaining high-quality Playwright tests (JavaScript / TypeScript) using strong, maintainable patterns.
• Working from user stories and acceptance criteria to design clear, testable scenarios early in delivery.
• Using CI/CD pipelines to provide fast feedback and support shift-left testing.
• Testing public-facing websites, including key non-functional risks such as:

o   Usability & Accessibility

o   Reliability & Performance Efficiency

o   Security

• Bringing empathy for real users into quality decisions on healthcare & fundraising focused digital products.
• Using quality signals and metrics to understand product health and support delivery decisions.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience testing web applications and APIs as a QA Engineer or SDET
• Strong hands-on experience with Playwright (JS/TS)
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary product teams
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines
• Experience using quality metrics and signals to understand product health and support decisions.
• A collaborative mindset and strong user focus

Why join?

• Tech for good– Your work will directly support healthcare outcomes for children and families
• Modern QA– Quality engineering, not just test execution
• Impact & influence– Help shape testing practices and quality standards

How to apply

Please click on the apply button in the top right-hand corner where you will be taken to a short application form to complete.

Closing date:Friday 27th February

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Benefits

• 30 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A flexible approach to working arrangements.
• Access to our enhanced pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Access to various health and wellbeing schemes, including the employee assistance programme.

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About Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity

Every day, around 750 children and young people from across the UK are seen at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH). At Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity, we help the hospital go above and beyond for seriously ill children, enabling kinder and better treatments, bringing hope for children with the rarest and most complex illnesses, and making hospital a little bit easier and a lot more fun for the thousands of children who are treated at GOSH every year. Our staff raise vital funds to support ground-breaking research, cutting-edge medical equipment, and the creation of child-centred facilities to help save more young lives, and essential support services that help save childhoods too.

Together, we can help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhood, possible. We were delighted to be named Charity Times - Charity of the Year 2024, recognising the impact of our shared mission.

Our commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

We believe that GOSH Charity and the charity sector more widely should reflect the diversity of patients, communities, and society at large. We also know that having a more diverse and inclusive workforce will make us more innovative, challenge the status quo, and enable us to deliver more impact. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. In particular, we encourage applications from those who are currently under represented within the charity sector as they may be marginalised by race and/or ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, long-term health conditions, or socioeconomic status. 

If you would like more information about our approach to inclusive hiring please see our Inclusive Hiring Page here. You can also find out more about our commitments to EDI within our EDI Strategy here

As a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer we are more than happy to make reasonable adjustments wherever possible throughout the recruitment process. For more information on this please contact recruitment@gosh.org

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