Senior QA Engineer

At Frasers Group we're rethinking retail. Through digital innovation and unique store experiences, we're serving our consumers with the world's best sports, premium and luxury brands globally. As a leader in the industry, we're elevating the retail experience for our consumers through our collection of established brands, including Sports Direct, FLANNELS, USC, Frasers, and GAME.

Why join us?

Our mission- we are building the worlds most admired and compelling brand ecosystem

Our purpose – we are elevating the lives of the many with access to the world's best brands and experiences

At Frasers Group, we fear less and do more. Our people are forward thinkers who are driven to operate outside of their comfort zone to change the future of retail, embracing challenges along the way. The potential to elevate your career is massive, the experience unrivalled. To be able to make the most of it you need to live and breathe our principles:

• Think without limits - Think fast, think fearlessly, and take the team with you
• Own it and back yourself - Own the basics, own your role and own the results
• Be relevant - Relevant to our people, our partners and the planet

Are you ready to join the Fearless?

We're looking for a Senior QA Engineer with a strong understanding of Quality Engineering (QE) principles—someone who sees quality as a shared responsibility across the life-cycle, not just a testing phase. You will bring a balanced skill set across functional, non-functional, and automation testing, and a keen focus on how to build quality into our systems from day one.

This role is critical in ensuring our retail platform is scalable, performant, secure, and continuously improving in a cloud-native environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply Quality Engineering principles to shift quality left and right across the SDLC.
• Define and implement test strategies covering both functional and non-functional requirements.
• Develop and maintain automated tests using Playwright.
• Lead performance, load, and scalability testing using tools like k6.
• Integrate quality checks into CI/CD pipelines, supporting fast and safe delivery.
• Leverage observability tools (logs, metrics, traces) for system monitoring and feedback loops.
• Drive risk-based testing approaches, focusing on what matters most to the business.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to ensure security, usability, and resilience are factored into early designs.
• Use BDD and collaboration techniques to align teams around shared quality goals.
• Mentor and support the team in modern QE practices and system thinking.

Tech Skills & Tools

• Solid experience with automation tools such as Playwright, Cypress, or Selenium.
• Confident in either Javascript or Typescript.
• Deep knowledge of performance testing using k6, JMeter, or similar.
• Experience working with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) in a test capacity.
• Understanding of security testing practices and familiarity with tools like OWASP ZAP.
• Integration of test processes within CI/CD tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Working knowledge of API testing, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
• Experience using BDD frameworks (e.g., Cucumber) and Jira/Test Management tools.

Soft Skills & Culture Fit

• Strong believer in team ownership of quality and collaborative engineering culture.
• Effective communicator who can influence and drive best practices across teams.
• Curious mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
• Comfortable in fast-paced agile environments and with cross-functional collaboration.
• Strong system-level thinking and ability to connect technical quality to customer experience.

Along with your benefits package we also offer a wide range of perks for our colleagues:

Reward, Recognition and Opportunities

Frasers Champion- Our employees are at the heart of our business and we ensure individuals are recognised every single month for their hard work. Frasers Champion is a peer nominated scheme where 8 winners will receive double their pay for a month where they have thought without limits, owned it or been relevant.

Retail Reconnect – In order to build the planets most admired and compelling brand ecosystem, all employees must understand our business, product and customers. Each financial year, Head Office employees will gain insights by spending two days in one of our stores or the Warehouse. The goal is to learn how the work you do impacts our teams on the frontline, and to bring ideas back to the office which will improve how we work.

Employee Welfare

Frasers Fit – Our Everlast Gyms Team are on a mission to make our workforce the best, and fittest on the planet We run free gym classes for employees as well as discounted memberships to our clubs. Frasers Fit is our wellbeing programme which aims to support and improve colleagues Physical, Financial & Mental wellbeing. The app is accessible for every employee and includes training, nutrition and lifestyle advice- all completely free.

Retail Trust – We know that its not just about physical health, mental wellness is equally important which is why all of our employees get free access and support from the Retail Trust charity. This includes a 24 hour wellbeing helpline, wellness hub, counselling and financial/legal support.

What's next?

Our Recruitment Team will be reviewing applications and all candidates will receive a response, whether you are successful or unsuccessful. Shortlisted applicants may be asked to confirm a few key details before being booked in for a first stage interview with the Recruiter- this will be behaviourally focussed and centred around how you align with our Culture and Values. If successful you will be invited to a final interview, on-site, with the team.