Senior QA Analyst

Location: Altrincham, United Kingdom (hybrid working)

Salary: £40,000–£45,000 per year plus benefits

Company

Established software organisation delivering commercial software products and supporting customer implementations.

What you will do

• Ensure product quality, reliability and usability across new feature development and version releases.
• Plan, create, maintain and execute test plans, scenarios, test cases and scripts.
• Perform functional, regression, exploratory, release and integration testing.
• Review specifications, functional requirements and user stories to identify gaps, risks and edge cases.
• Track defects and enhancements, reproduce issues, validate fixes and investigate customer-reported problems.
• Support UAT, release verification and test environment coordination while improving testing practices and sharing knowledge with colleagues.

Requirements

• Strong experience in software quality assurance and manual testing across web-based or business systems.
• Good understanding of functional, regression, exploratory and release testing.
• Experience reviewing system specifications, functional requirements and user stories.
• Experience creating and executing test plans, scenarios, test cases and test scripts.
• Experience using test management or defect tracking tools to manage bugs and enhancements.
• Strong analytical skills, including issue investigation, defect reproduction and fix validation.
• Experience supporting UAT, release verification, test environment coordination or integration testing.
• Ability to take ownership of work, contribute to continuous improvement and influence quality without formal line management responsibilities.

Nice to have

• Experience with TestMo.
• Experience testing commercial cloud software.
• ISTQB qualification.
• Experience working with third parties on integration testing and external system access.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working and flexible working arrangements.
• Discounted gym membership and financial support.
• Pension with salary sacrifice options.
• Cross-functional collaboration with development, product, support and implementation teams.

Hiring process

• Applications are handled by Alex Palmer at hirify.global.
• If there is no response within 5 working days, the application should be considered unsuccessful; the profile may be considered for other suitable vacancies for 12 weeks.
• Reasonable adjustments are available at any stage of the application process.