Test Engineer in Bristol

About us

Procentia, part of the Brightwell Group, is an award-winning software and technology company specialising in the Pensions and Pension Risk Transfer/Bulk Purchase Annuities market. Established in 2002, the business is renowned for its web-based pensions administration and management system, IntelliPen. Procentia’s products and solutions help pension schemes and administrators of all types and sizes manage exceptional volumes of data, meet the demand for self-serve technology, and provide meaningful, consumer-like experiences that users expect from modern online financial platforms while minimising the need for administrator intervention and involvement.

With offices in the UK and North America, Procentia supports some of the largest pension schemes, insurers and retirement plans across the private and public sectors, including BP, British Airways Pension Scheme, BTPS, Chicago Transit Authority, Legal & General Retirement America, Retirement System City of Detroit, Rolls-Royce, Royal London, and Universities Superannuation Scheme.

The job:

The Quality Assurance & Test (QAT) team work collaboratively in cross-functional teams, ensuring that the QA maxim “All change must be tested” is delivered, improving the quality of our clients' software and customer experience. This is done by discovering and preventing bugs to ensure that the software is fit for customer purpose. You will evaluate requirements along with user stories, plan out your testing to a defined Test Plan, and participate in testing activities across a variety of projects, including regression testing our suite of IntelliPen pensions applications, prior to release.

You will be responsible for test analysis, design, implementation, and execution in line with various standard test techniques. Whilst the bulk of testing is both manual and functional, you will understand the breadth of test techniques available and apply the most appropriate for any change.

Here's what you'll be doing:

• Partner with clients and stakeholders to understand testing requirements, priorities, and project goals.
• Support the delivery of high-quality, client-focused outcomes across multiple projects.
• Communicate testing progress, risks, issues, and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Create and maintain test plans, test cases, and other testing documentation.
• Estimate, plan, and manage testing activities across multiple workstreams and deadlines.
• Execute functional testing across web and mobile applications.
• Validate solutions against business requirements, acceptance criteria, and quality standards.
• Identify, document, investigate, and track defects through to resolution.
• Troubleshoot issues and contribute to root cause analysis to improve product quality.
• Work closely with developers, project teams, and stakeholders, sometimes acting as the sole tester on a project.
• Review project documentation to ensure it aligns with system functionality and requirements.
• Escalate risks, issues, and blockers proactively to support successful project delivery.
• Present testing results, findings, and quality recommendations to project teams and stakeholders.
• Apply QA best practices and contribute to effective testing processes and standards.
• Balance multiple priorities while meeting project timelines and quality expectations.
• Share knowledge, collaborate with colleagues, and help drive continuous improvement across the team.
• Contribute ideas and feedback to enhance team effectiveness, product quality, and user experience.

Key skills and experience:

• Problem solving skills.
• Time management and strong focus on delivery.
• Team player and great collaborator, also self-motivated and able to work independently.
• Patience and attention to detail.
• Aware of own limits and knows when to seek expert advice.
• SQL (ideally T-SQL).
• Intermediate experience in an object-oriented programming language (C#, Python, JavaScript etc).
• Creating and managing automated test cases, including a web automation test tool such as Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps/Jira etc.

Lets talk about what's in it for you...

• 25 days holiday (plus public holidays) increasing with length of service up to a maximum of 28 days, with carry over of up to 1 week.
• Buying and Selling holiday (up to 1 week).
• Volunteer day.
• 5% Employer contribution pension.
• Life Assurance.
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP).
• Health care cash plan.
• Tusker – Electric Car Leasing scheme.

Don’t meet every requirement?

We know that some candidates, particularly women, disabled people, LGBTQ+ individuals, neurodivergent people, and those from ethnic minority backgrounds, may hesitate to apply unless they meet every listed requirement. At Procentia, we’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. If this role excites you but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be a great fit for this role or another opportunity within our team.