Staff QA Engineer
LocationLondon
Posted3 hours ago
Company Overview
Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Group Overview
This role sits within the Digital and Synthetic Group (D&S). The D&S Group is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.
Position Summary
Metrea is seeking a dynamic, curious, and highly-motivated Staff QA Engineer to join our software development team, building software solutions that provide geospatial data processing and visualisations. Candidates should have strong experience with the software development lifecycle, and extensive skills and knowledge in quality engineering. The position involves helping to drive product delivery, in collaboration with Product Managers, Software Engineers and other QA Engineers.
Metrea is a people-first organisation and candidates should have strong communication skills and a desire to proactively elevate their team through continuous knowledge sharing, collaboration, feedback, and mentorship.
What You'll Do
Assist the team with refinement of user stories, through a testing lens
Define test strategy for complex products and projects
Work with product and engineering to clarify acceptance criteria
Scope and write test cases
Estimate test effort associated with user stories
Execute manual software tests
Help define and execute the team's test strategy
Create and maintain test plans and appropriate documentation
Create and maintain automation scripts
Support other testers and developers with broader system testing
Champion Quality Engineering best practices
Coordinate and collaborate with Testers across teams
What You Bring
Practical experience of hands-on software development and / or QA testing
Extensive experience of using and testing web, windows desktop, and command line applications
Experience leading and defining test strategy for complex products and projects
Enthusiasm for team delivery in an Agile environment
Drive to learn constantly and further your knowledge
Strong organisational skills, proactive approach to task admin and docs
Meticulous attention to detail
Shift-left approach to testing and willingness to participate throughout the whole lifecycle of user stories
Interest and ability in upskilling less experienced QA Engineers
Great interpersonal skills, able to confidently communicate issues confidently to both technical and non-technical team members
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Experience working on geospatial visualisation products
Mixture of manual testing and automation experience
Practical experience using Typescript
Practical experience using Playwright
Practical experience of BDD processes
Knowledge of git and source control strategies
Familiarity with the Azure DevOps platform
Benefits
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Electric Car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Free lunch on office days
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days annual PTO plus b/h
Bonus Scheme
Personal development opportunities
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
The employee will have the legal right to work in the UK and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
AAP/EEO Statement
Metrea is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs.
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting.
Travel
Some travel to other Metrea offices will be required.
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
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Metrea delivers effects-as-a-service to national security partners across five domains and more than a dozen mission areas. These include airborne ISR, electronic warfare, secure communications, aerial refueling, special air missions, aerial firefighting, and advanced simulation. We own the whole stack: designing, building, and operating turnkey capabilities that give our partners decisive, asymmetric advantage against rapidly evolving threats.
Our operating model is built around three interlocking pillars. The Support Groups provide a global shared-service – spanning people, finance, platform, operations, legal, and engagement. This frees up our Core Groups, who develop and own mission capabilities end-to-end, to focus entirely on delivery. The Market Groups apply a regional lens, ensuring that our agile and adaptable capabilities remain aligned to the wicked problems that matter most to our partners across the Americas, EMEA, and Asia-Pacific.
At the heart of our model is a simple but powerful idea: be a true partner with skin in the game. Our partners need effects, not just equipment. By owning the full stack – from the lab to the field – we are able to drive a continuous cycle of innovation that keeps our partners ahead. It's a fast-moving, intellectually demanding environment where talented people are given real responsibility, work on problems that matter, and contribute to an enterprise that is growing quickly and deliberately.
Headquartered in Washington, DC, with facilities across the United States, the United Kingdom, as well as Continental Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Group Overview
This role sits within the Digital and Synthetic Group (D&S). The D&S Group is committed to providing mission-driven information solutions that seamlessly bridge the digital and physical realms. Leveraging cutting-edge technologies and advanced platforms, we empower operational readiness and elevate situational awareness across diverse domains—including air, maritime, and space.
Position Summary
Metrea is seeking a dynamic, curious, and highly-motivated Staff QA Engineer to join our software development team, building software solutions that provide geospatial data processing and visualisations. Candidates should have strong experience with the software development lifecycle, and extensive skills and knowledge in quality engineering. The position involves helping to drive product delivery, in collaboration with Product Managers, Software Engineers and other QA Engineers.
Metrea is a people-first organisation and candidates should have strong communication skills and a desire to proactively elevate their team through continuous knowledge sharing, collaboration, feedback, and mentorship.
What You'll Do
Assist the team with refinement of user stories, through a testing lens
Define test strategy for complex products and projects
Work with product and engineering to clarify acceptance criteria
Scope and write test cases
Estimate test effort associated with user stories
Execute manual software tests
Help define and execute the team's test strategy
Create and maintain test plans and appropriate documentation
Create and maintain automation scripts
Support other testers and developers with broader system testing
Champion Quality Engineering best practices
Coordinate and collaborate with Testers across teams
What You Bring
Practical experience of hands-on software development and / or QA testing
Extensive experience of using and testing web, windows desktop, and command line applications
Experience leading and defining test strategy for complex products and projects
Enthusiasm for team delivery in an Agile environment
Drive to learn constantly and further your knowledge
Strong organisational skills, proactive approach to task admin and docs
Meticulous attention to detail
Shift-left approach to testing and willingness to participate throughout the whole lifecycle of user stories
Interest and ability in upskilling less experienced QA Engineers
Great interpersonal skills, able to confidently communicate issues confidently to both technical and non-technical team members
Additional Eligibility Qualifications
Experience working on geospatial visualisation products
Mixture of manual testing and automation experience
Practical experience using Typescript
Practical experience using Playwright
Practical experience of BDD processes
Knowledge of git and source control strategies
Familiarity with the Azure DevOps platform
Benefits
Private Medical Insurance
Subsided gym membership / plans through Wellhub
Electric Car scheme
Cycle to work scheme
Free lunch on office days
Enhanced Parental Leave
30 days annual PTO plus b/h
Bonus Scheme
Personal development opportunities
Work Authorization / Security Clearance
The employee will have the legal right to work in the UK and will be able to produce right to work documentation.
AAP/EEO Statement
Metrea is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.
Position Type and Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time non-exempt position with typical working hours of Monday through Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Hours and work shifts may change in accordance with department and business needs.
Work Environment
This job operates in an office setting.
Travel
Some travel to other Metrea offices will be required.
Our Firmware
At Metrea, our single core value is Rooted in Humility, and our four cornerstone attributes are Entrepreneurial, Systematic, Discerning, and Over-Deliver. These form what we call our Teammate Firmware. Just like technical firmware connects software and hardware, our Firmware is the constant interface between our mission and our people. It defines how we show up, how we work together, and how we solve complex problems.
Our team Firmware creates a web-like, hyper-collaborative, dynamically hierarchical way of working that helps us adapt quickly, communicate openly, and distribute decision-making to where expertise actually lives. It enables groups to self-organize around hard problems, shift fluidly as priorities evolve, and operate with the trust, curiosity, and discipline required in a complex mission space. This foundation allows us to deliver elegant, effective solutions and uphold our purpose: protecting our precious inheritance.
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