QA Engineer (Contract, Short Term, Manual Testing)
Posted Today by Total Onion
Negotiable
Undetermined
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Manual QA Engineer involves supporting various web projects through hands-on manual testing during a busy delivery period. This short-term contract position does not require automation skills and focuses on ensuring the quality of live and pre-release websites. The ideal candidate will be responsible for functional, regression, and cross-browser testing, as well as logging detailed bug reports. The position is suited for someone who values a clean QA process and high-quality defect reporting.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manual testing of live and pre-release websites
- Functional, regression, and cross-browser testing
- Testing animation-heavy and content-driven pages
- Validating fixes and re-testing across devices and browsers
- Logging clear, well-structured bugs with full reproduction steps
Key Skills:
- Strong, hands-on manual QA experience on web projects
- Comfortable testing complex front-end behaviour and UI interactions
- Confident writing clear, detailed bug reports that developers can act on
- Experience working with JIRA for issue tracking
- Familiarity with BrowserStack or similar cross-browser tools
- Able to work independently and manage your own testing workload
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London Area
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
We are looking for an experienced Manual QA Engineer to support a number of active web projects during a busy delivery period. This is a short-term contract role focused purely on hands-on manual testing. There is no automation requirement for this position.
What you will be doing
- Manual testing of live and pre-release websites
- Functional, regression, and cross-browser testing
- Testing animation-heavy and content-driven pages
- Validating fixes and re-testing across devices and browsers
- Logging clear, well-structured bugs with full reproduction steps
Essential experience
- Strong, hands-on manual QA experience on web projects
- Comfortable testing complex front-end behaviour and UI interactions
- Confident writing clear, detailed bug reports that developers can act on
- Experience working with JIRA for issue tracking
- Familiarity with BrowserStack or similar cross-browser tools
- Able to work independently and manage your own testing workload
Beneficial experience
- Experience testing WordPress sites
- Agency or multi-project environment experience
- Strong testing process skills, including test notes, risk awareness, and validation discipline
How we work
- Remote working
- Collaboration via Microsoft Teams
- Clear expectations around bug quality and testing standards
This role is best suited to someone who enjoys focused delivery work, takes pride in clean QA process, and understands the importance of high-quality defect reporting.
Contract length: Short term, with immediate start preferred. Please send your CV along with your day rate.