Hybrid Senior Engineer in Test

at HALOS Body Cameras

• Job title: Senior Engineer in Test
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Distributed Systems, Java, Microservices, Spring, Terraform, TypeScript
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Belfast, United Kingdom

About the role

• Senior Engineer in Test improving HALOS automated testing strategy and execution across the organisation. Collaborating with teams to ensure quality is built into systems from the start.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve HALOS’ automated testing strategy across unit, integration, system, and end-to-end testing.
• Take responsibility for the quality bar of the platform, ensuring testing is comprehensive, reliable, and scalable.
• Identify gaps in the current test suite and prioritise improvements that deliver the greatest risk reduction.
• Champion testing best practices and help embed quality thinking across engineering teams.
• Design, build, and maintain robust automated testing frameworks with minimal supervision.
• Extend and improve our existing Typescript Playwright-based end-to-end test suite.
• Build and maintain integration and API-level tests for Java Spring microservices.
• Ensure test suites are reliable, fast, and optimised for CI, using metrics and data insights to continuously assess, improve, and scale testing infrastructure.
• Drive a shift-left approach to quality by working with engineers to introduce testing earlier in the development lifecycle.
• Partner with developers to improve unit and component-level test coverage where appropriate.
• Introduce and evolve security testing practices, such as dependency scanning, basic penetration testing, and security-focused test scenarios.
• Help teams think proactively about failure modes, edge cases, and abuse scenarios.
• Work closely with our DevOps engineer to design and implement a fully automated release pipeline.
• Ensure test suites are well-integrated into CI/CD pipelines, providing fast and trustworthy feedback.
• Define quality gates and release criteria that balance speed with confidence.
• Improve observability and diagnostics for test failures in automated environments.
• Test distributed, microservice-based systems running in AWS.
• Validate service-to-service interactions, asynchronous workflows, and event-driven behaviour.
• Ensure testing approaches scale as the platform evolves toward a more globally distributed architecture.

Requirements

• 5+ years’ experience in test engineering or quality-focused engineering roles.
• Strong engineering background, with hands-on experience writing production-quality test code.
• Experience testing Java Spring applications and microservice-based architectures.
• Hands-on experience with end-to-end testing frameworks, ideally Playwright.
• Experience testing APIs, integrations, and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with AWS-based environments and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and automated test execution.
• Experience designing and building automated test frameworks from scratch or significantly evolving existing ones.
• Experience implementing or influencing shift-left testing practices.
• Exposure to security testing concepts and tools.
• Experience collaborating closely with DevOps or platform engineering teams.
• Ability to operate autonomously and set testing direction in ambiguous environments.
• Nice to Have: Experience with performance or load testing.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Experience working in a high-growth startup or scale-up environment.

Benefits

• Generous Annual Leave Allowance
• Competitive salary and commission/bonus package
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Private Health Insurance
• Cycle to work scheme
• Home & Tech scheme
• Regular company events and social initiatives