Key Responsibilities: 

• Own manual testing for assigned features from refinement to release
• Design and execute meaningful test scenarios, not just scripted cases
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory, and integration testing
• Validate requirements and acceptance criteria
• Identify risk, edge cases, and user‑impacting defects early
• Provide clear go/no‑go quality assessments for releases
• Raise clear, actionable defects with strong reproduction steps
• Assess severity, priority, and customer impact
• Work closely with developers to support root‑cause analysis
• Retest fixes thoroughly and verify acceptance
• Engage actively in backlog refinement, planning, and retros
• Challenge unclear or incomplete requirements constructively
• Communicate quality status, risks, and confidence clearly
• Contribute ideas to improve QA practices and consistency
• Support regression and release testing activities
• Work in a hybrid model (approx. 2 days currently onsite at Solihull Blythe Valley)

Requirements

• Strong manual testing experience in Agile environments
• Experience with at least one automation tool or framework (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium)
• Solid understanding of testing principles and techniques
• Ability to test across browsers, devices, and environments
• Experience with defect tracking tools (e.g. Jira, Azure DevOps)
• API testing basics (e.g. Postman)
• Comfortable validating data (basic SQL or equivalent)
• Familiarity with version control (Git) is a plus
• Thinks like a user, not just a tester
• Focuses on risk and impact, not box‑ticking
• Cares deeply about shipped quality
• Shift left experience in the development cycle
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