QA Tester

<h1>About Us </h1><p style="min-height:1.5em">We're hiring a QA Tester to help us ship reliable software, faster. You'll test new features and releases across our web and mobile products, find and document defects, and help build out our automated test coverage. The role is open to candidates from around 1 to 3 years' experience.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the role and team</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll sit within a cross-functional product squad alongside developers, a product managers and project managers, working in Agile sprints. Quality is a shared responsibility here: you'll be involved from refinement through to release, not just at the end.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Review user stories and acceptance criteria early, asking questions that surface gaps and edge cases before code is written</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Write and maintain clear test cases, test plans and checklists for new features</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Carry out manual functional, exploratory, regression and cross-browser/device testing</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Log defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence and severity, and follow them through to resolution</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Run regression and smoke tests ahead of releases and give a clear go/no-go view</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Verify fixes and support release and post-release checks in production</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Help improve QA processes, documentation and test data management</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Share product knowledge with the wider team and support colleagues in Customer Success when issues are raised</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Skills and experience</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>Essential</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">At least 1 year's hands-on experience testing web or mobile software in a commercial setting</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and testing fundamentals (test types, test design techniques, defect life cycle)</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience writing test cases and raising well-documented bugs</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Familiarity with an issue tracker and test management tools</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">A methodical, curious mindset and strong attention to detail</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical issues to non-technical colleagues</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Experience in leveraging AI to streamline and automate testing</p></li></ul><h2><strong>Desirable</strong></h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Some experience with test automation</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Basic SQL for checking and preparin