Duties

• Review business requirements and the SDLC to plan functional, system, unit, user acceptance and performance testing.
• Create and maintain test cases; a
• Investigate defects through debugging and root cause analysis, documenting findings and supporting resolution.
• Collaborate with development teams on continuous integration, Jenkins pipelines and release readiness. Your impact: clear, actionable test findings help colleagues resolve issues before they affect users.
• Analyse software requirements, technical specifications and acceptance criteria to identify testing requirements.
• Design, prepare and maintain test plans, test cases, test scenarios, test scripts and test data.
• Perform functional, system, integration, regression and user acceptance testing of software applications and IT systems.
• Conduct manual and automated testing to verify software functionality, reliability, performance and quality.
• Develop, maintain and execute automated test scripts and testing frameworks where appropriate.
• Identify, investigate, reproduce and document software defects, system failures and inconsistencies.
• Record and manage defects using appropriate defect-tracking systems, including severity, priority and reproduction details.
• Work with software developers and technical teams to investigate defects and verify corrective actions.
• Retest resolved defects and perform regression testing following software changes, upgrades and new releases.
• Verify that software applications and systems meet documented functional, technical and quality requirements.
• Monitor testing results and software quality metrics to identify recurring issues and areas for improvement.
• Produce test reports, defect reports and quality-assurance documentation for technical teams and stakeholders.
• Assess testing outcomes and identify unresolved quality risks before software releases and deployments.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of software testing procedures, quality standards and testing methodologies.
• Maintain accurate records and evidence of testing, defect resolution and quality-assurance activities.

Qualifications

Required: Practical software testing and quality assurance skills, including test design, automation, troubleshooting and clear defect reporting. Preferred: Experience with Selenium, continuous integration, Jenkins, APIs, SQL, software development or Agile and Waterfall delivery; familiarity with tools such as Jira, Git is advantageous.

Software Testing & Quality Assurance Test Automation Defect Identification & Management Functional, Integration & Regression Testing Test Planning, Analysis & Documentation

• Pay: £37,000.00-£46,000.00 per year