48 Qa Engineer jobs in the United Kingdom

QA Engineer | £45,000 | Hybrid (Cheshire) | Cypress Automation

New mid-level QA Engineer role now live with a start up tech company building genuinely interesting products across web, mobile and even physical devices.

This is a great opportunity to join a smart, collaborative team where you'll be given the space to shape processes and bring your own ideas to the table. Well suited to someone who enjoys applying a true testing mindset across varied platforms.

What's exciting about it?

• Broad remit across digital, physical, and mobile experiences
• Strong culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
• A hybrid model with stunning new offices in Cheshire

Essential skills:

• Solid automation skills in JavaScript, ideally with Cypress
• Curious, exploratory approach to testing
• Great communicator; proactive, collaborative, and comfortable working cross-functionally
• Full right to work in the UK and happy to work hybrid in Cheshire

If you're looking for a role where you can broaden your skills, test across a range of platforms and be genuinely valued in the QA space, apply now.

CarmichaelUK is working with a Tier 1 contractor on the HS2 project and is seeking a Quality Engineer to join the team in Northamptonshire. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of one of the UK’s most prestigious infrastructure projects, ensuring quality standards are met across multiple work packages.

Key Responsibilities:

• p>Oversee and implement the project’s quality management processes.
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• Conduct inspections and audits to verify compliance with specifications, drawings, and industry standards.

• Review and approve quality documentation, including Inspection and Test Plans (ITPs), method statements, and material approvals.

• Support site teams with quality-related queries and ensure corrective actions are implemented promptly.

• Liaise with the client, subcontractors, and design teams on quality issues.

• Maintain accurate quality records and prepare detailed reports for project management.

• Provide training and guidance on quality procedures to site teams.

About You:

• HNC/Degree in Civil Engineering or related discipline.

• Previous experience in a Quality Engineer role within the civil engineering or infrastructure sector.

• Working knowledge of quality management systems and procedures.

• Experience on major infrastructure projects – HS2 experience advantageous.

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• Strong communication and organisational skills.

• CSCS card holder.

QA Engineer | £45,000 | Hybrid (Cheshire) | Cypress Automation

New mid-level QA Engineer role now live with a start up tech company building genuinely interesting products across web, mobile and even physical devices.

This is a great opportunity to join a smart, collaborative team where you'll be given the space to shape processes and bring your own ideas to the table. Well suited to someone who enjoys applying a true testing mindset across varied platforms.

What's exciting about it?

• Broad remit across digital, physical, and mobile experiences
• Strong culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
• A hybrid model with stunning new offices in Cheshire

Essential skills:

• Solid automation skills in JavaScript, ideally with Cypress
• Curious, exploratory approach to testing
• Great communicator; proactive, collaborative, and comfortable working cross-functionally
• Full right to work in the UK and happy to work hybrid in Cheshire

If you're looking for a role where you can broaden your skills, test across a range of platforms and be genuinely valued in the QA space, apply now.

We're looking for a detail-oriented and proactive QA Engineer to join our collaborative team at Deskpro, a growing help desk software company. As an integral member of our engineering team, you'll ensure the quality and functionality of our product through manual testing of stories and bug fixes, automating tests where appropriate, championing QA best practices, and working alongside developers to triage and resolve defects. You'll also have exciting opportunities to grow your skills by contributing to our test automation efforts with Playwright, helping us maintain excellent testing standards whilst supporting our product's continued development.

As a QA Engineer, you will:

• Collaborate closely with scrum teams to manually test stories and bug fixes , ensuring each release meets our high quality standards.
• Champion QA best practices during scrum meetings and refinements , working with the team to define clear testing requirements and share knowledge across disciplines.
• Partner with developers in triaging and reproducing defects , contributing to swift issue identification and resolution.
• Execute regression and smoke tests during release cycles and as needed, helping maintain system stability and reliability.
• Contribute to our automation strategy by converting exploratory tests into Playwright automation (JS/TS) , expanding our test coverage whilst developing your technical skills.

Requirements

What you'll bring:

• Experience in QA engineering or software testing, preferably within an Agile development environment.
• Knowledge of manual testing practices and automated testing using tools like Playwright (JS/TS) or similar frameworks.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with experience working across development and product teams.
• Experience triaging defects and partnering with developers to resolve issues efficiently.
• Understanding of regression testing and smoke testing within release cycles.
• Strong attention to detail and a focus on user experience and reliability.
• Familiarity with Agile processes and tools, or willingness to learn.

If you don’t meet every requirement but are excited about this role, we’d still love to hear from you.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and a generous share option package. Our office is based in a friendly, fast-moving startup environment, with great transport links and amenities nearby.

• Competitive Salary + Generous Share Options
• Fantastic Transport Links : Just 3 minutes from the mainline train station, District and Northern line tubes, buses, and trams.
• Office Perks : Unlimited coffee, tea, soft drinks, snacks, and beers for Thursday afternoons. BBQs in the summer, Monday breakfasts, and Thursday lunches.
• Health & Wellness : Private healthcare, gym discount, bike storage, and parking options.
• Work-Life Balance : Flexible work culture with autonomy and real impact
• Growth Opportunities : An opportunity to be part of a growing software company with the potential to make a big impact.

Deskpro is a help desk platform that improves online customer service for millions of customers. We are dedicated to providing businesses with better ways to communicate with their customers through various channels (email, live chat, voice, etc.). As part of our growing Engineering team, you will be working in close collaboration with developers and designers, contributing to our product's quality and success.

We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team where everyone has equal opportunity to thrive. If you need any accommodations during the hiring process, just let us know - we’re happy to help.

The Opportunity 

We're seeking a passionate and experienced Quality Assurance Engineer. As a Quality Assurance engineer within our Engineering discipline, you will apply your expertise in test planning, design, development and maintenance, while contributing to the ongoing growth of the QA capability within our Engineering discipline. 

You’ll join a talented team of dynamic and driven professional problem solvers; creative thinkers and solutions builders who thrive on helping clients meet the most exciting digital transformation challenges. 

Make a difference and advance your career by helping deliver some of the UK’s most important #tech4good projects, making the world a smarter, safer, greener, and healthier place. 

At a certified Great Place to Work® you’ll experience a dynamic and nurturing environment that rewards initiative and flexibility and enjoy a career path tailored to your own aspirations. 

About Us 

Founded in 1992, we are a successful, growing International digital transformation consultancy. We deliver multi-Queen’s Award for innovation winning platforms and services that support large-scale digital transformation. Our digital, data and technology solutions are used by globally recognised public and private sector brands operating in a variety of sectors including Civil Defence, Healthcare, Sustainable Environment and Land Asset Management, and Digital Democracy. 

Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities 

A Quality Assurance Engineer contributes to planning, design, development and execution  of tests to assure high-quality software solutions, that meet business and user needs, working with a variety of tools and understanding best practice patterns. This includes: 

• Helping to deliver and improve Quality Assurance solutions for high-quality software solutions working in collaboration with other Quality Assurance practitioners. 

• Taking responsibility for Quality Assurance of small services or parts of larger services across all stages (design, build, assure, deploy, operate and continually improve) in-line with best practice. 

• Working with Lead Engineers and practitioners across other disciplines to understand designs, and maintain up-to-date, repeatable test scripts. 

• Building effective working relationships with client counterparts in your practitioner domain. 

• Helping to structure and provide assurance for the work of other Quality Assurance practitioners. 

• Collaborating with DevOps engineers to implement CI/CD pipelines for supporting ongoing software quality assurance. 

• Collaborating with Engineering, User-Centred Design, Service Operations, Delivery Management, and Data Science practitioners to achieve objectives and successes within multi-disciplinary teams. 

• Playing an active role in the Engineering discipline, driving innovation, application of best practice, and contributing to Community of Practice events. 

Requirements

Requirements

As a QA Engineer at Informed you will have:

• Experience working in Quality Assurance across the software development lifecycle, including both functional and automated testing. 

• Experience working with Cloud-based solutions and technologies (Google Cloud Platform, AWS, Azure). 

• Experience working in an agile and Continuous Integration based environment (Scrum, Jira, Confluence). 

• Effective communicator who can explain complex information to clients and other members of the team. 

• Willingness to maintain relevant, up-to-date practitioner skills through continuing professional development and training, including accreditations/certifications. 

Experience working with some, or all, of the following testing tools and technologies: 

• JMeter, BlazeMeter, BrowserStack 

• Cucumber/Gherkin 

• WAVE 

• OWASP ZAP / Dependency Check 

• SonarQube 

• Selenium, Cypress, Playwright 

• Browser developer tools 

Experience in non-functional Quality Assurance practices, including: 

• Performance benchmarking (latency and throughput) 

• Resilience testing (chaos and fuzzing) 

• Scalability testing 

• Accessibility Testing 

• Security (Penetration) Testing 

• Integration and User Acceptance Testing 

• Operational Acceptance Testing, Business Readiness Testing 

Desirable skills and experience  

• Experience working in a professional services/consultancy environment preferred. 

• Experience of the GOV.UK Digital Service Standard and Technology Code of Practice preferred. 

• Experience taking responsibility for Quality Assurance on small projects or parts of larger projects. 

• Experience structuring and assuring work for less experienced members of the team. 

Personal Qualities 

• A hands-on problem-solver, demonstrating commitment to software quality.  

• A clear communicator, calm, can-do, resilient, and comfortable being challenged. 

• Strong planning, time management, and organisational skills, with the ability to balance conflicting priorities. 

• Detail-oriented, reliable, and punctual. 

• Inquisitive, using critical thinking to ask lots of questions, overcome biases, break assumptions and consider different perspectives. 

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.  

• Able to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies and testing methodologies. 

Benefits

Benefits

Our benefits package compliments our highly competitive salaries and our great working environment. We believe that our people should be properly rewarded for their commitment to the continued success of our business through a comprehensive and flexible range of benefits.

These can include:

• InformedACADEMY™ – We offer excellent career development opportunities through our award-winning personal and professional development programmes, including support with professional certifications.
• Industry leading health and wellbeing plan – We partner with several wellbeing support functions to cater to each individual’s need, including 24/7 GP services, mental health support and physical health support.
• Hybrid working*
• Private Health Care Cover*
• Generous life assurance cover*
• Gym Membership*
• Monthly office lunch
• Onsite massage sessions
• 25 paid working days holiday per year plus bank holidays*
• Sabbatical Leave Scheme* Enhanced Maternity Leave and Pay*
• Enhanced Paternity Leave and Pay*
• Company Pension Contribution
• Profit Share Scheme*
• Payment of professional subscriptions
• Generous referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Salary Sacrifice scheme*

*Qualifying period applies

Culture

We are proud to nurture a workplace culture that is diverse, inclusive, rewarding, and egalitarian.

We strive to live up to our values of Innovation, Excellence, and Integrity by thinking about things differently, always doing our best, and acting in good faith at all times.

We’re a team of passionate problem solvers. We take pride in helping our clients accelerate and de-risk digital business change so that we can collaborate and codesign world class digital services that solve complex business and safety critical problems, particularly where place, location or geography are important.

Our workplace culture reflects how we go about our work, the type of work that we choose to do, and our commitment and contribution to the sustainable social, environmental, and economic development aims of the communities that we are part of. 

We focus both on technical skills and equally importantly, on the cultural fit of prospective new colleagues. Our success relies on fostering an environment where creativity and collaboration produces great outcomes for our people, our clients, and our partners.

As a QA Engineer you will be reporting into the QA Team Lead and supporting the development teams by ensuring the quality of their output through a combination of manual and automated testing.

We are Trade Nation. We help our customers power up their trading through killer insights, transparent costs, and fairer ways to trade. We’re innovators, and proud of it. And we’ve grown a lot in our decade as a market-leading low-cost trading powerhouse. Our reach is global through our teams in the UK, Australia, South Africa, Seychelles and The Bahamas.

Founded on transparency, forged in trust and powered by people, we’re committed to empowering our customers to outperform the markets. How? By minimising expenses and harnessing technology to prioritise the lowest trading costs.

But enough about us. Let’s hear about you.

You’re something special. You pride yourself on being unique and bringing your own history to the table – finding solutions to daily challenges in a way that can’t be done by anyone else. Maybe you talk a big game, maybe you don’t. The important thing is that you do what you say and follow through to see every customer thrive.

You don’t play with the bumpers up. That means breaking out of your lane when needed to help others – or forging your own completely. Every problem is our  problem and that’s how you see it too. Because Trade Nation’s people have a shared vision, and you want to be part of making it a reality.

You know when to take the right sort of risks, the ones that push you to be better. You’re not afraid to try, fail, and then try harder. But don’t worry, you’ll have all the support you need to thrive with us at Trade Nation, and we can’t wait to enable you to learn and grow.

Ready to roll up your sleeves and get stuck in?

We have each other’s backs

There when we need each other most

 We challenge each other

Be more creative, more curious, more bold

We thrive together

Taking our work to the next level

We form strong bonds

Through team building and social events

We don’t judge

Instead, we teach and are open to learning

We step up

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand product features and architecture.
• Derive meaningful test scenarios based on business requirements and system workflows.
• Perform functional, regression, integration and end-to-end testing on tasks and epics.
• Develop and maintain an up-to-date regression pack to ensure ongoing testing of critical functionalities.
• Write, execute, and maintain test cases for automation.
• Assist in bug reproduction, investigation and work with developers on root cause analysis.
• Maintain test scripts to run in CI/CD environment.
• Promote delivery of quality software.
• Communicate effectively on progress and ensure impediments are raised early to minimise impact on the delivery.

Requirements

• Proven experience in quality assurance across automated and manual testing within software development with at least 3+ years of experience.

• Should have 2+ years’ experience in front-end, API and end-to-end testing.
• Develop and maintain automated scripts using tools like Playwright, Cypress, K6 and Postman.
• Strong preference for experience in scripting language such as TypeScript, JavaScript.
• Skilled in using CI/CD tooling such as GitLab, TeamCity etc
• Experience using Jira or similar project management tool.
• Maintain and enhance test documentation including test scenarios and bug reports.
• Excellent attention to detail, highly organised with a proactive and independent approach.
• Capable of working on multiple tasks simultaneously and managing deadlines.

• Relevant testing qualifications such as ISTQB, Agile software testing courses.
• Experience with Playwright using Typescript language.
• Experience in API testing using Postman or similar tools.
• Good to have knowledge in C#
• A positive attitude with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience working in an agile environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, and discretionary annual bonus.
• Private healthcare.
• Life Insurance, Critical Illness & Income Protection cover.
• Active Lifestyle allowance.
• Annual leave above minimum entitlement.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Up to 3 weeks allowance to work in any location.

Quality Assurance Engineer

Manual role

Up to 48k

Bristol - Hybrid, very flexible

I am working with a SaaS client who is looking for a skilled manual tester to join their team.

They are looking for someone who puts quality first and maintains excellent standards and best practice in testing.

You will be working within a scrum team, identifying opportunities to enhance efficiency.

You will be involved with black box testing, exploratory testing, database testing, API testing, UI Testing, performance testing, Security testing, Usability testing amongst others.

The successful candidate will be a confident communicator that promotes excellence and puts quality first.

This is an environment where quality is absolutely key, and the business appreciates the importance of testing as a function to ensure the products are ready for release.

There is an auto team who you will communicate and collaborate with for increasing efficiency, but your role is manually focused.

Benefits:

27 days holiday, plus bank holidays. Increasing after length of service.

Free food and drinks

Hybrid working as standard - really flexible working model.

Private medical insurance

Electric vehicle leasing scheme

Cycle to work, and more…

Responsibilities:

Involved throughout the entire STLC

Collaboration with internal stakeholders and scrum teams

Ensure regular deployment

Regular contributions to sprints, and refinement

Be an advocate for quality

Keep up to date on best practice, and latest technologies

Functional and Non Functional experience

Identify opportunities for automation to increase efficiency

Maintain test environments

Essential:

Manual testing experience - at least 3 years minimum, ideally 5 years or more

Experience with various testing types - Black box, Regression, Smoke, Exploratory, Database testing, API testing and more.

Experience in root cause analysis of issues.

Confident communication - being an advocate for best practice and quality.

Experience working throughout the entire SDLC and STLC.

Strong documentation skills

Appreciation of UI and UX

Jira, TestRail or other test management and defect tracking software

Postman

Web and Mobile Testing Experience.

Experience with CI/CD tools and processes.

Desirable:

ISTQB / ISEB certification

Knowledge, understanding, or experience with:

Playwright, Selenium, or Cypress.

JMeter, Gatling

Cloud - AWS or Azure

Postman

SQL

This is an urgent vacancy, please apply if you would like to be considered quoting reference 102874.

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Embedded Software QA Engineer
Location: Manchester

A leading consultancy at the forefront of engineering innovation is seeking an Embedded Software QA Engineer to support the delivery of high-integrity embedded and electrical systems within the defence sector. This is a key opportunity to contribute to mission-critical projects, ensuring that robust engineering standards and assurance frameworks are upheld throughout the software development lifecycle.

You’ll play an active role in safeguarding software reliability, safety, and compliance — helping to shape high-assurance environments where security and process maturity are paramount.

About the Role:

This is a process-led assurance role supporting engineering teams to deliver fully compliant software systems. Working as part of a wider delivery function, you’ll ensure development processes are correctly followed, documented, and improved — guiding technical teams on quality adherence, regulatory expectations, and continuous improvement.

The role combines governance, quality oversight, and technical collaboration, making it ideal for someone with a strong appreciation of the software lifecycle in embedded or high-integrity systems.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• p>Ensure project plans and governance frameworks are up to date and appropriately executed

• Support and assure software development against defined processes and industry standards

• Produce quality and assurance documentation throughout the development lifecycle

• Drive actions to closure and ensure audit readiness across relevant milestones

• Support less experienced team members and help embed a culture of best practice

• Lead by example, contributing to a high-performing and collaborative engineering culture

• Proactively develop professional knowledge across software, systems, and compliance

What We’re Looking For:

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Experience in software assurance, quality engineering, or process governance roles

• Strong understanding of software development lifecycles and embedded systems

• Familiarity with industry standards and assurance processes in regulated environments (e.g. defence, aerospace, automotive, rail)

• Comfortable producing assurance documentation, quality reports, and audit materials

• A proactive mindset with strong organisational and coaching abilities

• Degree in a relevant engineering discipline (e.g. Software, Systems, Electrical, etc.)

Why Join?

• Join a trusted consultancy delivering high-impact work in critical sectors

• Work across meaningful defence and engineering programmes

• Help shape and assure the next generation of embedded and electrical systems

• Supportive and forward-looking engineering culture

• Clear opportunities for technical development and progression