QA Engineer

Overview

Final date to receive applications: 27 February 2026

Department: Technology

Location: Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Compensation: £47,500 / year

Description
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.

Salary
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.

• Building and maintaining high-quality Playwright tests (JavaScript / Type Script) 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 usability & accessibility, reliability & performance efficiency, security, and 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.

• 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

• 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

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

• 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