Principal QA Engineer
Location
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At5/11/2026
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Occupation TypeIT quality and testing professionals
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£41,700
(£21.38 per hour)
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Description
Role: Principal QA Engineer
Location: We operate a hybrid schedule, meaning 2-3 days a week in the office based at Thorpe Park, Leeds.
Salary: £ DOE plus extensive benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Employment type: Full time/Part time
Working hours: We work on a core hours principle. Our core hours are 09:30 - 16:00; you can work around these to suit you!
Do you want to work for the nation's largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We're a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years' experience, helping over 1.8 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day, and as a certified B Corp we also meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all.
Our tech teams keep us running 24/7 to make sure all our patients get world class service. To support that, this role may include participation in an out-of-hours rota as required by the business. We operate fair scheduling process as well as additional compensation for all on call periods.
The Principal QA Engineer will shape the technical foundations of quality across Pharmacy2U's technology landscape. Operating across Agile squads, the role focuses on designing and owning modern automation frameworks, setting standards, and enabling teams to deliver high‑quality software at scale. As the most senior technical role within QA, this position drives an automation‑first, shift‑left culture, strengthens performance testing capability, and explores AI‑assisted approaches that improve quality, feedback speed, and engineering productivity.
Why you'll love working with us
Location: We operate a hybrid schedule, meaning 2-3 days a week in the office based at Thorpe Park, Leeds.
Salary: £ DOE plus extensive benefits
Contract type: Permanent
Employment type: Full time/Part time
Working hours: We work on a core hours principle. Our core hours are 09:30 - 16:00; you can work around these to suit you!
Do you want to work for the nation's largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We're a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years' experience, helping over 1.8 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery. We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day, and as a certified B Corp we also meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all.
Our tech teams keep us running 24/7 to make sure all our patients get world class service. To support that, this role may include participation in an out-of-hours rota as required by the business. We operate fair scheduling process as well as additional compensation for all on call periods.
The Principal QA Engineer will shape the technical foundations of quality across Pharmacy2U's technology landscape. Operating across Agile squads, the role focuses on designing and owning modern automation frameworks, setting standards, and enabling teams to deliver high‑quality software at scale. As the most senior technical role within QA, this position drives an automation‑first, shift‑left culture, strengthens performance testing capability, and explores AI‑assisted approaches that improve quality, feedback speed, and engineering productivity.
Why you'll love working with us
We believe great people deserve great support. That's why we offer a benefits package designed to look after your health, finances, career and life outside work.
Financial security & rewards
Financial security & rewards
- Competitive contributory pension
- Occupational sick pay
- Long-service awards and refer-a-friend bonuses
- Professional registration fees covered (GPhC, NMC, CIPD and more)
- Cycle to Work and Green Car schemes (subject to eligibility)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Flexible hybrid working to help balance work and home life
- Private healthcare insurance at discounted rates (Aviva)
- Employee Assistance Programme and in-house mental health support
- Access to discounted gym memberships via Blue Light Card and benefits schemes
- Regular health and wellbeing initiatives
- Strong commitment to CPD, training and professional development
- 25 days' annual leave, increasing with service
- Buy and sell holiday scheme
- Blue Light Card and employee discount platform
- Exclusive discounts at The Springs, Leeds
- 25% off health & beauty purchases
- 25% off Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor services
- Regular social events throughout the year
- Designing and implementing automation frameworks across web, mobile, app, and API layers, including the architecture, tooling, and patterns squads build upon
- Building and evolving performance testing practices using k6 to help teams understand system behaviour under load
- Comfortable working with large codebases or monolithic repositories
- Enjoys mentoring engineers and QA Engineers, with impact measured by how much the wider team improves
- Comfortable influencing technical direction across multiple teams without direct authority and translating technical complexity for non‑technical leadership
Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.
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