Summary: The QA Engineer role focuses on ensuring the quality and performance of an innovative AI technology product, particularly in Natural Language Processing and machine learning. The position involves developing and executing comprehensive testing strategies and collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet compliance and quality standards. This is a 6-month initial contract based in London, requiring on-site presence three days a week. The role is classified as outside IR35.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the product owner and development team to understand and feed into product requirements, features, and compliance needs in respect to quality.
• Develop, in collaboration with the product team and other stakeholders (e.g. compliance, equality, risk), detailed, comprehensive, and well-structured test strategy, plans, and test cases ensuring compliance and quality.
• Implement required QA tooling and infrastructure, collaborating with the infrastructure engineer and developers.
• Perform various types of testing such as functional, regression, exploratory, performance, usability, and compliance testing.
• Identify areas for test automation and work with engineers to build and maintain a set of automated tests which balance quality with supporting continuous delivery.
• Identify, document, and track bugs and defects throughout the development process.
• Collaborate with the product owner and cross-functional teams to ensure consistent product quality, compliance, and alignment with user needs and requirements.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of CI/CD, compliance, and quality processes.
• Stay up to date with new developments in software testing, compliance standards, and relevant tools and technologies.

Key Skills:

• Extensive QA Experience
• Testing AI technology experience - including Natural Language Processing and machine learning.
• Experience of Chat Bots, especially using voice
• Testing in an AWS Environment
• CI/CD processes and tools.

Salary (Rate): 400

City: London

Country: United Kingdom

Working Arrangements: hybrid

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: Mid-Level

Industry: IT