Senior QA Tester (SC Cleared)
Posted Today by Fruition Group
Negotiable
Outside
Hybrid
Leeds (LS1), LS1
Summary: This role is for a Senior QA Tester with active SC clearance, based in Leeds, offering a hybrid working arrangement. The position focuses on manual testing with opportunities to expand into automation and CI/CD integration. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in enhancing the quality function within the organization. The contract is for three months with a strong chance of extension.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, execute, and maintain manual test cases and scripts from requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Conduct functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and accessibility testing
- Log defects clearly, track progress, and retest to confirm resolution
- Contribute to reusable test suites and automation frameworks as capabilities mature
- Support integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Promote effective testing practices, encouraging early involvement and proactive risk identification
- Help shape and evolve testing and quality processes across the organisation
- Perform accessibility testing aligned with recognised standards such as WCAG
Key Skills:
- Strong experience designing and executing manual test cases
- Ability to analyse requirements, user stories, prototypes, and technical specifications
- Highly experienced in System Testing, SIT, and UAT, including first-occurrence validation, live proving, and validating end-to-end behaviour in real operational scenarios
- Solid understanding of defect management and structured test documentation
- Clear communicator, comfortable with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical, logical approach
- Experience writing or maintaining automated tests using Playwright
- Experience using Postman for API testing
- Understanding of accessibility principles and how to validate them
- ISTQB Foundation (CTFL) essential; ISTQB Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) desirable
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: Leeds
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Job Title: Senior QA Tester (SC Cleared)
Location: Leeds/Hybrid (1x day per week)
Day rate: Competitive rate - Outside IR35
Duration: 3 months - Strong chance of extension
Why Apply?
This is a great opportunity for a quality-focused, SC cleared, Senior QA Tester to play a key role in delivering high-quality software and systems for a growing organisation. You'll start with manual testing and have genuine scope to expand into automation, CI/CD integration, and accessibility testing, helping to shape and mature the wider quality function as it develops. If you're curious, confident challenging assumptions, and passionate about raising testing standards, this contract role in Leeds offers real influence over how quality is delivered.
Non-negotiables
MUST have active SC clearance or higher
Proactive by nature
Test Engineer Responsibilities
- Design, execute, and maintain manual test cases and scripts from requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
- Conduct functional, regression, integration, exploratory, and accessibility testing
- Log defects clearly, track progress, and retest to confirm resolution
- Contribute to reusable test suites and automation frameworks as capabilities mature
- Support integration of automated tests into CI/CD pipelines
- Promote effective testing practices, encouraging early involvement and proactive risk identification
- Help shape and evolve testing and quality processes across the organisation
- Perform accessibility testing aligned with recognised standards such as WCAG
Test Engineer Requirements
- Strong experience designing and executing manual test cases
- Ability to analyse requirements, user stories, prototypes, and technical specifications
- Highly experienced in System Testing, SIT, and UAT, including first-occurrence validation, live proving, and validating end-to-end behaviour in real operational scenarios
- Solid understanding of defect management and structured test documentation
- Clear communicator, comfortable with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Strong attention to detail and a methodical, logical approach
- Experience writing or maintaining automated tests using Playwright
- Experience using Postman for API testing
- Understanding of accessibility principles and how to validate them
- ISTQB Foundation (CTFL) essential; ISTQB Agile Tester (CTFL-AT) desirable
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.