Senior QA Test Engineer

Location: UK, Nottingham
Length: Start Date: 10/03/2025 End Date: 03/10/2025
Rate: £520.00 per day (Inside IR35)
Hours:37.5 hours per week

Job Overview:
We’re looking for a Senior QA Test Engineer to work within one of our agile development teams, championing quality at all phases of the software development lifecycle. You will work closely alongside the other engineers and the product team to implement effective test solutions that ensure our apps do what they should to serve our customers in the best way. You should be comfortable working across stacks with an eagerness to learn new technologies as required. Quality assurance begins before a single line of code is written – you will look to plug requirements gaps during the refinement process and consider ‘what if’ scenarios using a risk-based approach.
 
You’ll be part of a cross-functional delivery team that includes Product Owners, Developers, Designers, and Quality Assurance specialists amongst others. The scope of your work means that you’ll ship new code, multiple times per day. We’re using modern technologies to deliver more than 190 microservices that combine to form a cloud-native platform that we’re all proud of, and that our customers love. It’s a growing team family, and we need more people (like you) who will not only help us deliver life-changing features for our consumers, but innovate in Hack Days, share your struggles and successes at Connect (our regular Lightning Talks platform), and celebrate the wins in a Tech Social. These are just a few things that make Our Client a great place to work.
 
You’d be joining an agile delivery team that uses Scrum or Kanban and would be part of an organisation originally built upon the Scaled Agile Framework; nowadays, each delivery team continues to refine their processes for an optimum release cadence. You’ll find it easiest to understand the way we work if you’ve worked using agile delivery methods in the past, but it’s not mandatory.

Qualifications/Experience:
 

• Previous experience in a testing role within an agile team, involving pairing with other Engineers to support achieving sprint goals as well as contributing to stand-ups, planning & retrospective sessions

• Coaching, mentoring, and training testers and developers inside the team and/or across teams
• Champion & driving a quality-focused culture and mindset within a team
• Testing of web applications (manual or automation) or Microservices (.NET or Java) simultaneously with Development changes
• Feature or user story refinement including supporting with scenarios and acceptance criteria
• Functional and exploratory testing
• Postman and API Testing
• Documenting and presenting test results back to stakeholders or product owners
• Supporting with the escalation, root cause analysis, reproduction, and resolution of product issues
• Collaborating effectively across business areas, as well as supporting with gaining stakeholder sign-off

Desirable knowledge, any of:
 

• Test automation (Cypress / Nightwatch.js)
• CI/CD tools such as Git, AWS, Jenkins
• JavaScript
• .NET Integration Tests
• Splunk
• JIRA, Confluence, Slack