Senior Application QA

This is a highly hands-on role requiring excellent technical skills, strong analytical thinking and a proactive approach to quality.

Key Responsibilities

• Quality Engineering & Test Strategy
• Contribute to the definition and continuous improvement of QA strategy, testing standards and quality engineering practices.
• Promote Shift-Left testing by participating in requirements analysis, backlog refinement and solution design sessions.
• Review business and technical requirements to ensure they are testable and complete.
• Identify quality risks early and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Manual Testing
• Plan, perform and document structured exploratory testing.
• Validate business processes, workflows and application behaviour.
• Execute testing across multiple environments and browsers where applicable.
• Ensure all testing evidence is accurately recorded.
• Database and Migration Testing
• Create snapshots to compare data before and after migration.
• Design and execute queries to validate data quality.
• Test Planning & Delivery
• Participate in Sprint Planning, backlog refinement and estimation sessions.
• Prepare test plans, test scenarios and execution schedules.
• Estimate testing effort for new functionality.
• Maintain full traceability between requirements, test cases and defects.
• Support delivery planning across multiple releases.
• Defect Management
• Identify, document and manage software defects throughout their lifecycle.
• Perform root cause analysis alongside development teams.
• Validate defect fixes and regression impacts.
• Ensure defects contain sufficient evidence for efficient investigation.
• Monitor defect trends and recommend process improvements.
• CI/CD & DevOps
• Integrate automated testing into CI/CD pipelines.
• Support continuous testing practices.
• Execute automated smoke tests following deployments.
• Help improve deployment quality through automation.
• T est Data & Environment Management
• Prepare and maintain appropriate test data.
• Ensure data integrity throughout testing.
• Non-Functional Testing Support

Support and contribute to

• Performance Testing
• Load Testing
• Accessibility Testing
• Security Testing

Working alongside specialist teams where required.

• Agile Delivery
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies.
• Collaborate with cross-functional delivery teams.
• Provide regular updates on testing progress and quality risks.
• Promote quality ownership across the delivery team.
• Continuous Improvement
• Recommend improvements to testing processes, tools and frameworks.
• Contribute to QA standards and documentation.
• Mentor junior QA engineers.
• Share knowledge and best practices across the team.
• Promote a quality-first engineering culture.

Required Skills & Experience

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 5+ years of experience in Software Testing or Quality Engineering.
• Excellent manual testing skills across enterprise applications.
• Strong knowledge of Agile delivery methodologies.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Proven experience developing automation frameworks from scratch.
• Advanced programming skills.
• Experience testing non-deterministic applications.
• Experience with Appian, Mendix or other low-code platforms.
• Experience with Git, GitHub or similar version control systems.
• Experience with Jenkins, GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps Pipelines.

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