Staff QA Engineer

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Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, GBR
Hybrid
66K-99K Annually
Senior level
Cloud • Information Technology • On-Demand • Software
The Role
As a Staff Quality Engineer, you will lead testing efforts, design quality frameworks, and mentor engineers to ensure high quality across development. You'll drive automation-first methodologies and foster a culture of quality in a hybrid work environment.
Summary Generated by Built In

Are you ready to shape the future of data?

Matillion is the company behind Maia, the AI Data Automation platform. 

In the AI economy, demand for data is exploding. Manual data engineering can’t keep up. Maia fixes that by combining 15 years of data expertise with agentic AI to eliminate the manual work that slows data teams down. Organisations like Cisco, DocuSign, and Slack are already using it to deliver real business impact, faster.

We started in Manchester and now we’re global - with teams across the UK, US and India.

We are driven, curious, energetic people who move fast, think big and hold ourselves to a high standard. We’re here to make a dent in the universe bigger than ourselves. And we’re looking for people who want to be part of it.


About the role 
 
We're Matillion, the company behind Maia. Maia is the first AI Data Automation platform that rethinks manual data work by autonomously creating, managing, and evolving data products for humans and AI agents at scale. Quality isn't an afterthought here; it's embedded into everything we ship. As a Staff Quality Engineer, you'll take a senior position within one of our small, focused engineering teams - bringing advanced technical guidance, deep hands-on expertise and a relentless drive to embed quality across the entire development lifecycle.
This is a leadership role as much as a technical one. You'll set the quality standard for the team, champion automation-first and shift-left testing methodologies, and play a pivotal role in shaping the overall quality journey across Matillion's Engineering department. If you believe quality is everyone's responsibility and you have the experience to prove it - we want to hear from you.
 
Matillion operates on a hybrid basis, with us coming together 2 days a week in our Manchester office to collaborate and drive our mission forward.

What you will be doing

  • Leading and overseeing the testing of Matillion products - hands-on in the work while mentoring and guiding junior engineers to raise the bar across the team
  • Designing and driving robust quality frameworks that span automation, security, accessibility and performance testing - with an automation-first mindset at the core
  • Championing shift-left testing across the development lifecycle, embedding quality from design through to deployment via CI/CD pipelines
  • Taking a leadership role in cross-functional collaboration - building a culture of quality excellence and elevating standards across the wider Engineering organisation
  • Identifying areas for improvement in the quality journey, driving continuous iteration and playing an active role in talent acquisition and team development

What we are looking for

  • Proven expertise in end-to-end testing of SaaS applications across complex distributed systems - including risk-based, exploratory, regression, security and usability testing approaches
  • Deep hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks (Cypress, Pact or equivalent), with strong proficiency in Java or JavaScript and a solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines
  • Experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP or Azure) and advanced knowledge of databases and SQL
  • A genuine QA mindset - you challenge norms, push back when quality is being compromised and continuously improve how the team works
  • Autonomy and inquisitiveness in equal measure - you dig into problems independently, understand causes not just effects, and bring a growth mindset to everything you do

At Matillion, we are committed to providing compensation in line with market standards based on the role, job family, job level and country. This role’s estimated annual salaried pay range for this position is £66,000 - £99,000. The final salary will be based on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications demonstrated in the hiring process.

More about Matillion
 
We operate a flexible working culture that promotes work-life balance, with benefits including:
  • Company Equity
  • 30 days holiday + bank holiday
  • 5 days paid volunteering leave
  • Private Health Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Pension
  • Access to mental health support
 
Your Safety
 
Matillion recruiters will only contact you from @matillion.com email addresses. We occasionally work with trusted recruiting partners; they will always tell you they are working on our behalf. We will never ask for money, fees, or bank details at any point in the hiring process. If something feels off, trust that instinct. Don't click any links. Go straight to matillion.com/careers to verify open roles or reach us at [email protected].
 
 
Want to know more?
 
Don't tick every box? Apply anyway. We hire for potential, not just experience. A member of our Talent Acquisition team will be in touch.
Cannot find anything suitable role right now? We still want to hear from you. Drop us a line at [email protected].
Find out more about life on #TeamGreen here. 
 
 
Matillion is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all of our team. Matillion prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. Matillion does not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law. 

Skills Required

  • Proven expertise in end-to-end testing of SaaS applications
  • Deep hands-on experience building and maintaining test automation frameworks
  • Experience with major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Strong proficiency in Java or JavaScript
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
  • Advanced knowledge of databases and SQL

Matillion Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Matillion and has not been reviewed or approved by Matillion.

  • Equity Value & Accessibility Equity participation appears integral to total rewards, with salary‑plus‑options structures and stock offerings positioned as part of compensation. This perceived upside complements base pay for many roles.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Generous PTO is complemented by paid volunteer days and unique milestone leave for life events, alongside holidays and sabbatical options. These programs are described as supporting work‑life balance across locations.
  • Healthcare Strength Health, dental, and vision coverage are presented as comprehensive, with mental health support and wellness programs included. Health insurance is frequently portrayed as a strong component of the package.

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The Company
HQ: Manchester
573 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

We help teams get data business-ready, faster, accelerating time-to-value and increasing the impact data can have. Our platform helps organisations that want to be data-driven to connect their data, shape it into business-ready formats, and get all this done faster with the cloud. We have a series of services that help teams load, transform, synchronise, and orchestrate their data, built on top of a cloud that ties everything together from end to end.

Why Work With Us

Matillion has fostered a culture that is collaborative, fast-paced, ambitious, and transparent; an environment where people genuinely care about colleagues and communities. We have 6 values by which we live and breathe. We are collaborative, passionate, honourable, and genuinely care about each other and the communities in which we live and work.

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