Senior QA Engineer
AnaplanManchester, United Kingdom Posted 6 March 2026
Job Description
<div class="content-intro"><p>At Anaplan, we are a team of innovators focused on optimizing business decision-making through our leading AI-infused scenario planning and analysis platform so our customers can outpace their competition and the market.</p>
<p>What unites Anaplanners across teams and geographies is our collective commitment to our customers’ success and to our Winning Culture.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Our customers rank among the who’s who in the Fortune 50. Coca-Cola, LinkedIn, Adobe, LVMH and Bayer are just a few of the 2,400+ global companies who rely on our best-in-class platform.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 40px;">Our Winning Culture is the engine that drives our teams of innovators. We champion diversity of thought and ideas, we behave like leaders regardless of title, we are committed to achieving ambitious goals, and we love celebrating<em> </em>our wins – big and small.</p>
<p>Supported by operating principles of being strategy-led, <a href="https://www.anaplan.com/careers/">values</a>-based and disciplined in execution, you’ll be inspired, connected, developed and rewarded here. Everything that makes you unique is welcome; join us and let’s build what’s next - together!</p></div><p><strong>Team Description</strong></p>
<p>We're looking for a Senior Engineer to be driving the QA of our data pipeline platform — an interactive, canvas-based tool that lets customers visually design complex data processing workflows with built-in governance, quality rules, and anomaly detection.</p>
<p>This isn't a role buried in automation frameworks. You'll be hands-on with the product, working closely with Product and Engineering to deeply understand what we're building, who it's for, and what "good" looks like. You'll explore, probe, and question — finding the gaps before our customers do.</p>
<p><strong>Your Impact</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Drive exploratory testing across the platform — understanding user journeys, edge cases, and business-critical flows</li>
<li>Partner closely with Product to understand the domain, use cases, and customer expectations</li>
<li>Work side-by-side with engineers — you're part of the team, not a gate at the end</li>
<li>Record and communicate issues clearly, with the context engineers need to act quickly</li>
<li>Help prioritise defects based on customer impact, risk, and release timing</li>
<li>Coordinate with our offshore QA team on system integration testing and performance testing</li>
<li>Define and refine non-functional requirements (NFRs) to guide performance and reliability efforts</li>
<li>Champion quality thinking across the team — helping everyone build better software, not just catching mistakes</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Your Skills</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>A strong background in manual testing with a focus on exploratory and stress testing. </li>
<li>Deep experience understanding complex products — you can quickly grasp business domains, user workflows, and system behaviours</li>
<li>Strong communication skills — you can articulate issues clearly, written and verbal, to engineers, Product, and leadership</li>
<li>Ability to work embedded within engineering teams in fast-paced, agile environments</li>
<li>Experience with defect tracking and test management tools (Jira or similar)</li>
<li>Comfortable defining and working with NFRs for performance, scalability, and reliability</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Desirable</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>You think like a user and a detective — curious, sceptical, and thorough</li>
<li>You've worked on data-heavy or workflow-based products before</li>
<li>Some automation experience (Selenium, Playwright, or similar) — not essential, but a bonus</li>
<li>You've helped shape QA practices and culture, not just executed test plans</li>
</ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) </strong></p>
<p>We believe attracting and retaining the best talent and fostering an inclusive culture stren ... (truncated, view full listing at source)
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