QA Analyst - Doc Abode
Hybrid working with 2 days in a Manchester Office
Salary range competitive - dependent on experience
Doc Abode is a rapidly growing health tech company building solutions to provide better care for NHS patients. We are a hybrid working organisation with workspace in one of Manchester’s leading tech innovation hubs where we all expect to meet up face-to-face once or twice per week (all the team currently attend in the office on Mondays).
We have a modern tech stack, agile environment and collaborative culture. At Doc Abode, our engineers have the opportunity to work across the whole stack on a variety of projects.
The role:
We’re looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Specialist to join our small but growing team, helping to improve quality throughout the software development lifecycle (not just testing at the end).
This role is not just about finding bugs; it’s about helping the whole team take greater ownership of quality. While you will be hands-on with manual testing, your focus will also be on enabling and guiding the team to build quality in from the start.
You will help shape and influence our test automation strategy, ensuring that repetitive manual testing (such as regression testing) is minimised and that testing is well-structured, effective, and integrated into development. By advocating for clear, testable requirements and improving observability and monitoring, you will play a key role in preventing defects before they arise.
At Doc Abode, we believe that quality is a shared responsibility - not just the job of a QA specialist. Your role will be to help embed this mindset across the team, ensuring that everyone contributes to delivering high-quality software that is used to provide people with the best care when they really need it.
You will:
- Embed a whole-team approach to quality – advocate for a “shift left” approach and quality as a shared responsibility rather than something owned by QA specialists alone.
- Act as a quality specialist – guide and mentor the team on best practices, helping to shape our overall approach to quality and testing.
- Integrate quality early in the development cycle – work closely with the team from the start of feature development to prevent issues rather than just catch them.
- Ensure clear, testable requirements – influence how stories and features are written to make testing easier and defects less likely.
- Support effective test automation – collaborate with developers to ensure that unit, integration, and end-to-end tests are well-structured, effective, and maintained.
- Manually test features and releases, but also act as an expert in manual testing to ensure everyone is equipped to take part when necessary.
- Encourage exploratory, performance, security and accessibility testing, ensuring quality extends beyond just functional correctness.
- Work with the team to improve observability and monitoring practices that help maintain high-quality releases and catch issues early in production.
- Uphold and strive for best practices across the design, engineering, performance, and security of our systems
- Contribute to overall ways of working, standards, documentation, and roadmaps
- Work with a wide range of modern technologies and platforms
- Have an immediate and big impact on software being used to provide people the best care when they really need it
- Be a key component of a small, friendly, and motivated team
You might be a good fit if you:
- We’re looking for someone who has substantial experience working in modern, collaborative, agile software development environments where high levels of automation, monitoring, and continuous delivery are the norm.
- Believe in building quality in, rather than testing defects out. You have a “shift-left” mindset when it comes to quality assurance practices.
- Are experienced with automated test frameworks such as Playwright/Cypress, but also understand the value of all types of automated testing (unit, integration etc) and can collaborate with developers to ensure we are writing high quality and effective automated tests at all levels.
- Experienced with improving quality assurance strategy and best practices
- Are an expert in manual testing, with the ability to test effectively at all stages of development and coach others to contribute as well.
- Value and are experienced with exploratory, performance, security, and accessibility testing, ensuring software quality extends beyond just functional correctness.
- Have a keen, analytical eye for detail
- Have a passion for agile development - you love to ship and deliver value as quickly as possible
- Experienced using modern monitoring and observability tools
- Have a collaborative mindset, working closely with engineers, product managers, and stakeholders to build quality in from the start.
- Have proven experience working with Web and Mobile
- Have proven experience working with REST and/or GraphQL APIs
- Are experienced with automated testing of web and mobile applications across the full stack (UI, server, databases)
- Experience using continuous integration/delivery pipelines
- Experienced using modern monitoring and observability tools
- Are self-motivated and results-driven
- Want to bring your individuality, experience and qualities to the team whilst being adaptable and keen to learn and improve
- Enjoy working with and helping more junior members of the team
- Are keen to work across a wide range of technologies and disciplines
Why work for Doc Abode?
You will be able to see the difference your development makes very quickly within a real live NHS environment, making a difference to people’s lives immediately. It is a busy yet friendly environment.
We have been at the forefront of the Covid-19 response, and we have some excellent opportunities to create good quality code that will make a huge impact in the real world.
How to apply
Please reach out to us if you’d like to discuss any areas or if you’re not sure if you’re a match, we’d be delighted to have a chat. We don’t want to miss out on great candidates.
