Senior Tester - (QA / UAT)
Posted Today by YourPrime
£50 Per hour
Outside
Remote
United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Senior QA / UAT Tester involves supporting a critical phase of product development and customer delivery for a growing software vendor. This fully remote position requires leading manual testing and UAT efforts across multiple SaaS product modules. The contract lasts for 6 months and offers a competitive daily rate. The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, and Delivery teams to ensure high-quality outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leading and executing end-to-end QA and UAT activities across key product areas.
- Creating, maintaining and executing test plans, test cases and test scripts.
- Working with Product Managers and Engineers to clarify acceptance criteria and ensure high-quality delivery.
- Identifying, logging, tracking and prioritising defects using existing tools (e.g. Jira).
- Running regression, functional and integration testing to support release readiness.
- Coordinating UAT cycles with internal users and/or customer groups.
- Providing clear reporting on test outcomes, risks and quality metrics.
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of QA processes and best practices.
Key Skills:
- Proven experience as a QA or UAT Tester within a software vendor or SaaS environment.
- Strong background in manual testing across complex, multi-module products.
- Solid understanding of agile development and product release processes.
- Hands-on experience planning and running UAT cycles with stakeholders.
- Proficiency with defect tracking tools such as Jira or similar.
- Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, fully remote environment.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Bonus: experience with basic SQL or API testing tools (nice to have, not essential).
Salary (Rate): £400.00 daily
City: undetermined
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
We’re working with a growing software vendor that’s looking for an experienced Senior QA / UAT Tester to support a critical phase of product development and customer delivery. This is a 6-month contract , fully remote across the UK , paying up to £400 per day (Outside IR35) . You’ll be the go-to person for manual testing and UAT , owning quality across multiple SaaS product modules and working closely with Product, Engineering and Delivery teams.
What you’ll be doing
- Leading and executing end-to-end QA and UAT activities across key product areas.
- Creating, maintaining and executing test plans, test cases and test scripts .
- Working with Product Managers and Engineers to clarify acceptance criteria and ensure high-quality delivery.
- Identifying, logging, tracking and prioritising defects using existing tools (e.g. Jira).
- Running regression, functional and integration testing to support release readiness.
- Coordinating UAT cycles with internal users and/or customer groups.
- Providing clear reporting on test outcomes, risks and quality metrics .
- Contributing to the continuous improvement of QA processes and best practices .
What we’re looking for
- Proven experience as a QA or UAT Tester within a software vendor or SaaS environment.
- Strong background in manual testing across complex, multi-module products.
- Solid understanding of agile development and product release processes.
- Hands-on experience planning and running UAT cycles with stakeholders.
- Proficiency with defect tracking tools such as Jira or similar.
- Strong analytical skills and high attention to detail .
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-moving, fully remote environment .
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Bonus: experience with basic SQL or API testing tools (nice to have, not essential).