QA Engineer
Posted 2 days ago by MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of QA Engineer involves taking ownership of testing across multiple projects within a growing organization. Initially focused on manual testing, the position offers opportunities to shape and implement automation and best practices as the QA function develops. The engineer will collaborate closely with product, engineering, and business teams to define the future of QA. This is a contract position based in Belfast with a hybrid working arrangement.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading testing across multiple projects and workstreams
- Getting hands-on with manual testing initially to build coverage quickly
- Advising on and implementing QA processes, standards, and frameworks
- Introducing automation where it adds value
- Working closely with product, engineering, and business teams
- Helping shape the longer-term QA strategy
Key Skills:
- Strong experience across both manual and automation testing
- Comfortable coming into an environment with no existing QA function
- Ability to build, guide, and advise on best practice
- Pragmatic approach, understands where manual vs automation fits
- Strong stakeholder skills and ability to influence
- Experience with low/no-code platforms is a bonus
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Belfast
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract QA Engineer Belfast (Hybrid) 6 Month Contract Outside IR35
The Role
We're working with a growing organisation who are bringing in their first QA hire on a contract basis. This is a key role where you'll take ownership of testing across a number of active projects, initially quite hands-on with manual testing, but with a clear opportunity to shape and introduce automation and best practice over time. You'll also play a key role in helping define how QA should look going forward, with the view that this function will grow.
What You'll Be Doing
- Leading testing across multiple projects and workstreams
- Getting hands-on with manual testing initially to build coverage quickly
- Advising on and implementing QA processes, standards, and frameworks
- Introducing automation where it adds value (not automation for the sake of it)
- Working closely with product, engineering, and business teams
- Helping shape the longer-term QA strategy
Tech / Environment
Mix of no-code / low-code platforms
Tools such as Next Matter, Workato, Power Automate
Broader modern tech environment (flexible depending on experience)
What They're Looking For
- Strong experience across both manual and automation testing
- Comfortable coming into an environment with no existing QA function
- Ability to build, guide, and advise on best practice
- Pragmatic approach, understands where manual vs automation fits
- Strong stakeholder skills and ability to influence
- Experience with low/no-code platforms is a bonus, not essential