Principal QA Engineer - Logistics and Fulfilment

About us

We’re the team behind digital retailer Very. 

Our purpose, helping families get more out of life, powers everything we do. 

And we want our people to get more out of life too! If you’re high-performing, ambitious and make the most of every opportunity, we want to hear from you. In return, you’ll enjoy heaps of flexibility, great perks and benefits, and the freedom to be yourself, keep learning and take your career wherever you want it to go. 

If you love making a difference, you’ll love making it sparkle for millions of Very customers. ✨ 

About the team

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced QA leader to join one of our most business-critical technology domains. 

Working within our Logistics & Fulfilment squad, you'll be responsible for defining and driving the quality engineering strategy across systems that underpin warehouse operations, order fulfilment, stock movement, supply chain and customer delivery experiences in order to deliver a Change Portfolio. 

You'll champion an automation-first mindset, embed quality throughout the software development lifecycle, and help shape the future of QA practices across the wider engineering organisation. This role combines hands-on technical leadership with strategic influence, making it ideal for someone who enjoys balancing delivery, mentoring and continuous improvement. 

About the role 

Leading the Quality Engineering strategy in a squad within our Logistics & Fulfilment domain, working closely with the other teams in the product unit to embed quality at every stage of the software development lifecycle. 

Championing an automation-first approach that enables faster, more reliable delivery and better outcomes for customers. 

• Partnering closely with Product Managers, Engineers and Architects to ensure quality is considered from discovery through to deployment.  You will be required to collaborate with squads across FS, DCX, Retail. 

• Building confidence in our platforms through effective functional, non-functional and exploratory testing practices. 

• Leveraging modern AI-powered tools to improve quality engineering outcomes, supporting activities such as test design, documentation, test approach creation and increasing team efficiency. 

• As part of a distributed delivery model, you'll work closely with our 3rd Pary offshore QA colleagues, providing leadership, coaching and direction. 

• Driving adoption of modern engineering practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and shift-left testing. 

• Identifying opportunities to improve tooling, frameworks and processes to increase efficiency, quality and team effectiveness. 

• Collaborating with stakeholders across Technology and the wider business to proactively manage risk and ensure successful delivery. 

• Using data, insights and quality metrics to inform decision-making and continuously raise engineering standards. 

• Proactively identifying, managing and communicating quality and delivery risks, ensuring issues are addressed early and appropriate mitigation plans are in place. 

• Sharing knowledge and best practice across squads, helping shape the future of Quality Engineering at The Very Group. 

About you

You'll be an experienced QA professional who combines strong technical credentials with the ability to influence teams and stakeholders. You'll be passionate about quality engineering and motivated by solving complex challenges within large-scale, customer-facing environments. 

You'll thrive in a collaborative, agile setting and enjoy working across multiple teams to establish best practices, improve processes and raise the quality bar. 

• Significant experience in Software Testing and Quality Engineering within complex technology environments. 

• Experience operating at Principal, Lead or Senior QA level. 

• Strong understanding of modern software development practices and Agile delivery methodologies. 

• Proven experience designing and implementing automated testing strategies. 

• Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and coding for automation. 

• Experience working with AI tools, APIs and associated testing tools such as Postman. 

• Strong exploratory, functional and technical testing capabilities. 

• Experience implementing Test-Driven approaches including BDD, TDD and ATDD. 

• Understanding of non-functional testing disciplines including performance, resilience and security testing. 

• Experience working within Logistics, Supply Chain, Fulfilment, Retail, Ecommerce or similarly complex operational environments would be highly beneficial. 

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels internally and externally. 

• A passion for coaching, mentoring and developing quality engineering capability and experience working with offshore teams. 

Some of our benefits

• Flexible, hybrid working model
• Inclusive culture and environment, check out our Glassdoor reviews

• £1000 flexible benefits allowance to suit your needs
• 30 days holiday + bank holidays
• LinkedIn Learning access
• Bonus potential (performance and business-related)
• Up to 25% discount on Very.co.uk

• Matched pension up to 6%
• More benefits can be found on our career site

How to apply 

Please note that the talent acquisition team are managing this vacancy directly, and if successful in securing this role, you will be required to undertake a credit, CIFAS, Right to Work checks and if a specific requirement of your role a DBS (criminal records) check. Should your application progress we require you to let the team know if there is anything you need to disclose in relation to any of these checks prior to them being undertaken, including any unspent criminal convictions.  

What happens next? 

Our talent acquisition team will be in touch if you’re successful so keep an eye on your emails! We’ll arrange a short call to learn more about you, as well as answer any questions you have. If it feels like we’re a good match, we’ll share your CV with the hiring manager to review. Our interview process is tailored to each role and can be in-person or held remotely.  

You can expect a two stage interview process for this position:  

1st stage - A one hour remote interview with the hiring team to discuss your skills and relevant experience + competency questions. This is also a great opportunity to find out more about the role and to ask any questions you may have.  

2nd Stage - Final Stage Skills based interview, ideally face to face.

As an inclusive employer please do let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments.  

If you'd like to know more about our interviews, you can find out here. 

Diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities

We’re building a culture of everyday inclusion, and welcome applications from anyone who believes they can do the job. We don’t discriminate based on age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.

We want our recruitment process to be accessible to everyone. If you need reasonable adjustments to apply, interview, or perform a role, let us know via [email protected]. We’ll be happy to support you.

We’re proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer and have nine brilliant colleague networks - including DAWN (Disability Awareness at Very) and Think (Neurodiversity at Very) - that are helping us make Very an even more inclusive place to work.