QA Engineer

Quality Assurance Engineer Manual role Up to 48k Bristol : Hybrid, very flexible I am working with a SaaS client who is looking for a skilled manual tester to join their team. They are looking for someone who puts quality first and maintains excellent standards and best practice in testing. You will be working within a scrum team, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency. You will be involved with black box testing, exploratory testing, database testing, API testing, UI Testing, performance testing, Security testing, Usability testing amongst others. The successful candidate will be a confident communicator that promotes excellence and puts quality first. This is an environment where quality is absolutely key, and the business appreciates the importance of testing as a function to ensure the products are ready for release. There is an auto team who you will communicate and collaborate with for increasing efficiency, but your role is manually focused.

Benefits 27 days holiday, plus bank holidays. Increasing after length of service. Free food and drinks Hybrid working as standard : really flexible working model. Private medical insurance Electric vehicle leasing scheme Cycle to work, and more x2026;

Responsibilities

• Involved throughout the entire STLC
• Collaboration with internal stakeholders and scrum teams
• Ensure regular deployment
• Regular contributions to sprints, and refinement
• Be an advocate for quality
• Keep up to date on best practice, and latest technologies
• Functional and Non Functional experience
• Identify opportunities for automation to increase efficiency
• Maintain test environments

Essential Manual automation experience : at least 3 years minimum, ideally 5 years or more Experience with various testing types : Black box, Regression, Smoke, Exploratory, Database testing, API testing and more. Experience in root cause analysis of issues. Confident communication : being an advocate for best practice and quality. Experience working throughout the entire SDLC and STLC. Strong documentation skills Appreciation of UI and UX Jira, TestRail or other test management and defect tracking software Postman Web and Mobile Testing Experience. Experience with CI/CD tools and processes.

Desirable ISTQB / ISEB certification Knowledge, Understanding, Or Experience With Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress. JMeter, Gatling Cloud : AWS or Azure Postman SQL

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