At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure top-notch quality in software through hands-on testing and collaboration with teams.
- Company: Leading online gambling business focused on tech and customer experience.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, bonus, excellent benefits, and hybrid work model.
- Other info: Fast-paced environment with opportunities for continuous improvement and career growth.
- Why this job: Join a dynamic team and make a real impact on user experience and system reliability.
- Qualifications: Experience in QA, backend testing, and working with APIs and databases.
The predicted salary is between 51750 - 63250 £ per year.
We're recruiting on behalf of a market-leading online gambling business that continues to invest heavily in technology, innovation and customer experience. Due to continued growth, they're looking to appoint a QA Engineer to join their Manchester-based engineering team.
This is an excellent opportunity for a QA professional who enjoys working closely with Developers, Product teams and Technical Leads to drive quality throughout the Software Development Lifecycle. You'll play a key role in ensuring robust testing practices are embedded across delivery, helping to deliver highly reliable and scalable platforms used by thousands of customers.
The Role
As a QA Engineer, you'll be part of a collaborative Agile delivery team, supporting quality-first engineering practices from design through to production. You'll be responsible for ensuring tests are applied at the right level, identifying risks early, and carrying out exploratory testing to uncover issues that scripted and automated tests may miss. You'll also contribute to observability-led quality, using monitoring, metrics and logging to understand system reliability, performance and user experience across live environments.
The role will suit someone who enjoys hands-on backend testing and working with APIs, databases and event-driven architectures within a fast-paced technology environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply QA best practices within an Agile delivery team.
- Support shift-left testing by reviewing requirements and designs to ensure solutions are testable from the outset.
- Execute testing at the appropriate level of the testing pyramid.
- Carry out exploratory testing to uncover defects and validate user journeys.
- Perform backend testing across APIs, databases and integrated systems.
- Contribute to observability-led quality through monitoring, metrics, logging and alerting.
- Collaborate closely with Developers, Product Owners, UX teams and Technical Leads.
- Identify, communicate and manage quality risks and defects.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives across testing processes and practices.
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