Senior QA Software Tester in Leeds

About Them

With a recent £15m investment, this growing company is a UK-based direct-to-consumer nutrition business focused on healthy, natural meals tailored for dogs.

What They Are Looking For

They are looking for a passionate, enthusiastic, and motivated individual to join their growing Digital Product Team in a Senior QA Test role. You will play a key part in ensuring all in-house development meets their high standards across design, development, and user experience. Their ideal candidate will be keen to champion best-practice testing processes and help drive their business forward in areas such as automation, stability, load testing, and other non-functional testing disciplines, ensuring their platforms and services continue to operate reliably and at scale. Above all, they are looking for someone who is genuinely passionate about quality assurance, has exceptional attention to detail, and is eager to help the QA function grow in influence and stature within their business. This is an excellent opportunity to be part of an ambitious team, with plenty of scope to develop, learn, and progress your career.

The role

They pride themselves on creating exceptional experiences for their customers. As part of their Digital Product Team, you will be responsible for testing their development output from both a functional and visual perspective. This role places strong emphasis on the overall product experience, as well as the underlying functionality. You will ensure that everything is pixel-perfect, works seamlessly across devices, and feels like a product they would be proud to put in front of their customers. Their ideal candidate will have some experience or understanding of UX and/or UI design, with high standards for quality and usability. A key part of this role will be helping to establish their journey into automated testing. As they continue to grow, it is vital that their new products and features do not negatively impact existing services. They are aiming to build a best-in-class automated testing approach, and their successful candidate will play a leading role in shaping, guiding, and driving this forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Functional and non-functional testing of all in-house development, taking ownership of test approach, coverage, and risk assessment across features, platforms, and services.
• Cross-platform and cross-device user acceptance testing (UAT), ensuring consistent, high-quality experiences across browsers, devices, and operating systems, and identifying experience gaps before release.
• Logging, documenting, and tracking defects through to resolution, including prioritisation based on risk and impact, and working with teams to ensure issues are clearly understood and resolved effectively.
• Providing QA input during project discovery, planning, and refinement, helping shape requirements, acceptance criteria, and technical approaches with quality and testability in mind from the outset.
• Implementing and maintaining automated test suites, setting direction for what should be automated, ensuring tests provide meaningful coverage, and aligning automation with CI/CD and release processes.
• Improving overall product quality by working collaboratively with developers, sharing insights, patterns, and feedback to help teams prevent issues earlier and continuously improve delivery outcomes.
• Mentoring and supporting other QA team members, providing guidance, knowledge sharing, and constructive feedback to help grow individual capability and overall QA maturity.
• Acting as a senior QA voice within the team, influencing decisions around quality, risk, and release readiness, and confidently challenging where standards are at risk.
• Collaborating closely with Product, Design, and Engineering, ensuring quality, usability, and customer experience are considered throughout the entire delivery lifecycle, not just at test time.
• Working with the Head of Digital Product to implement and continuously improve best-practice Agile ways of working, supporting consistent, high-quality delivery through effective ceremonies, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Proposing and driving new working methods, tools, and strategies, with a focus on improving both short- and long-term system quality, stability, and team effectiveness.

About You

• Experience working in, and delivering within an agile environment.
• Strong experience with test automation.
• Experience using test software (Cypress, Postman, SoapUI).
• Familiarity with GIT and Cloud Platforms.
• You’ll show passion for software testing, with a desire to grow further in the role, constantly learning and wanting to improve.
• You’ll need to demonstrate a strong background and experience in improving overall software quality.
• You must be able to work in a fast-paced environment, handling multiple projects at the same time.
• You will want to own your product, taking accountability and responsibility for quality, feeling confident to demo new features or products to key stakeholders within the business.

What’s in it for you?

• An annual salary up to £45,000.
• 33 days holiday (including Bank Holidays).
• Enrolment within their discretionary business performance 10% annual bonus plan.
• Company Pension.
• Team social events and the opportunity to support local charities.
• Free on-site Parking.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• EV car scheme (Salary sacrifice).
• Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office).

Other Stuff

NB: for non-UK Citizens; we cannot accept applications from anyone requiring sponsorship (now or in the future) for UK permanent employment status. If you are utilising a work visa this must allow you to work in the UK unrestricted for at least the next 5 years.