Principal QA Engineer (Manchester)

Insight Investment is looking for a Principal QA Engineer to join the OTC Order Management team in Manchester. The role combines hands-on testing for the Product team, ensuring the delivery of high quality, performant products, alongside responsibility for setting and leading the technical direction for QA practices across the department. You will work closely with the business and be involved in all aspects of the secure systems development life cycle (S-SDLC) across different business areas within Insight.

Role Responsibilities

• Provide technical advice to other QA Engineers and take the lead in designing new technical standards
• Be responsible for and define learning needs across the function. Understands capabilities required in the medium and long term and implement steps to achieve this
• Take ownership for driving change and innovation, bring relevant teams together and lead continuous improvement within the practice
• Own and implement test automation strategy to reduce manual testing and improve test coverage
• Direct QA strategy based on functional and non-functional requirements
• Evaluate and integrate new testing technologies and methodologies
• Be a spokesperson for our technology brand and engineering practices, both internally to evangelise and energise our teams and externally to attract and compete for talent
• Mentor the wider team to support the Team Lead and help optimise team performance
• Write clear and concise tests, recognizing the need to address technical debt
• Evolve as a subject matter expert with product behaviour and domain understanding

Experience Required

• Proficiency in test automation tools (e.g. Selenium, Cypress, Playwright, Bruno, Specflow)
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g. JavaScript, Node.js, C#, Java, Cucumber, SQL)
• Hands on experience building test automation frameworks and setting up test harnesses
• Experience working in Agile teams performing iterative development
• Fundamentals and approaches:, TDD/BDD/ATDD, OOP, SOLID principles
• DVCS with Git or Mercurial
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, TeamCity, Artifactory)
• Experience with Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS)
• Confident in collaborating with end users, stakeholders, and team members
• Programming as part of a team and performing peer code reviews
• Comfortable working with complex data on large systems with multiple integration points

Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at

About Insight Investment

Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients' needs. Founded in 2002, Insight's collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities.

Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: