Senior Software Quality Engineer

About us 

We’re Dayshape—an award-winning software scale-up with big ambitions and the momentum to match. Trusted by Big Four and many other top professional services firms globally, our AI-powered resource management platform is helping organisations to achieve extraordinary results.   

Our platform stands apart as the only solution that combines advanced AI, real-time project financials, and firm-wide insights to elevate resource management to a strategic function. By driving profitable growth, powering confident decisions, and ensuring satisfied clients and teams—we're helping our customers build strong organisations and careers for the long term. 

Why our customers love Dayshape: 

• We help professional firms optimise margins and increase revenue, unlocking access to more profitable work.   

• We provide complete operational visibility today and the tools to confidently predict tomorrow.   

• We empower firms to become the places where top talent wants to work - and the best clients want to work with.  

Recognised as Scotland’s fastest-growing tech company in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 for three consecutive years and more recently as the Enterprise Digital Tech Business of the Year at the 2024 ScotlandIS awards, we’ve consistently proven our ability to innovate and deliver real impact—and we’re always looking for like-minded people to join us. 

At Dayshape, our purpose is to improve people's working lives, and our culture is an important driving force in helping us to do just that. We're a friendly, inclusive, and ambitious team—driven by our values and a shared commitment to success. If you’re ready to join a fast-growing, high-impact company that’s reimagining resource management, then let’s talk. 

 About the Role 

The Scheduling team supports Resource Managers in using Dayshape effectively. With a growing user base, there is a requirement to deliver new features at regular intervals while maintaining quality. The Quality Engineer will work with a team of 7-8 Software Engineers, supporting testing practices and coverage throughout the software development lifecycle and providing guidance on quality processes. 

As a member of the Quality team, you will support quality goals, mentor others, and share your expertise. You may also help with short-term projects outside the Scheduling team as needed. 

What You Will Do 

• Enhancing and maintaining our regression testing suite (manual & automated) and coaching others to do the same.  

• Managing test data and environments (Azure, SQL server).  

• Analysing and triaging issues found in the nightly automated regression runs effectively.  

• Providing testing for client hot fixes and supporting the test review in hotfix retros/postmortems.  

• Developing the quality strategy for your team and advocating for its implementation.  

• Planning the test strategy for a large feature where required.  

• Keeping test artefacts up to date and traceability is maintained e.g., test runs, test statuses and coaching others on how to do this.  

• Contributing to root cause analysis for bug and defects by ensuring bug/defect reports are detailed and contain diagnostic data where appropriate.  

• Involved in the planning & refinement process by reviewing feature briefs & user stories and working with the team to define sufficient acceptance criteria, adopting the “3-Amigos” approach.  

• Using static and exploratory techniques to go beyond the acceptance criteria and find those “gotchas”.  

• Managing the execution of release activities for your team.  

• Advising and coaching software engineers on what to test and how to test to ensure sufficient test coverage, encouraging a risk-based approach.  

• A subject matter expert in testing your team’s product area and have strong knowledge of the user base to inform testing.  

About You 

• Demonstrates confidence in upholding team accountability for quality processes. 

• Possesses a strong track record of establishing and enhancing team quality procedures. 

• Highly proficient in conducting front-end exploratory testing. 

• Experienced in developing and maintaining automated tests, with preferred proficiency in Playwright. 

• Well-versed in implementing a risk-based approach to quality assurance. 

Bonus Points

• Basic SQL knowledge 

• Experience with resource management software 

• Familiarity with Github, AzureDevOps, or similar tools 

• Front-end performance testing experience 

 What you’ll get 

• Starting salary between £47,500 to £52,500 (dependent on experience)

• At least £1,000 per year to spend on professional and personal development 

• 33 days' holiday per year (including bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year to a maximum of 40 days 

• Paid four-week sabbatical in your fifth anniversary year on top of your holiday entitlement 

• Enhanced family leave policies 

• Private healthcare and rewards through Vitality 

• Income protection and death in service cover 

• Matched 5% auto-enrolment workplace pension scheme 

• Access to wellbeing offerings, such as our Employee Assistance Programme and a dedicated counselling service 

• Innovation Week twice a year - a chance to experiment and work off-project 

• Volunteering time – up to 20 hours a year to participate in volunteer work 

• Regular All Hands meeting for inspiration and over-communication 

• Time out of the working week for team socials each month, with a mix of in-person and virtual options: past events include hiking, family BBQs, board games and at-home cocktail classes! 

• Genuinely nice, smart people to work with, who are excited about growing our company  

Working Details 

This is a full-time role (37.5 hours per week). We typically work from 09:00 - 17:30 from Monday to Friday, though we can be a little flexible around this, just let us know. 

We are ideally looking for someone in/around Edinburgh, though we’re open to the possibility of this being a remote role (if you are in the UK). We are making the most of flexible hybrid working, so you will not need to come into the office everyday (unless you want to!). Our remote staff visit the Edinburgh office periodically for team events, workshops, and to connect with colleagues in person. 

Join the team! 

Equality of opportunity is more than just a responsibility: we believe it is a huge advantage to welcome a variety of experiences and perspectives into the team. Diversity is a great asset and, as such, we strongly encourage applications from any background. 

This is your opportunity to really influence how we get things done, and how we measure and improve our capability to deliver software with high quality in a scalable way. We are doing well, but there is lots more to do to maintain the high bar and pace that we have set. 

Everyone here is growing personally as the company grows, so if that sounds like something you would like to be part of, we would love to see your application. 

The deadline for applications is Wednesday 23rd July at 12:00pm.

*Please note the successful candidate for this role will be subject to background checks and will have an opportunity to declare anything to us beforehand*