QA Engineer

Full-time, Permanent Basingstoke (hybrid) £40,000 - £45,000 We're looking for a skilled and motivated QA Engineer to join our growing technology team. You'll be working across our core applications, helping to ensure quality through a mix of manual and automated testing while improving how we test through modern tooling and AI-led approaches. As part of a collaborative Agile team, you'll contribute to planning, stand-ups and retrospectives while delivering high-quality releases and building robust, scalable test coverage that has real impact across the business. What you'll be doing

• Designing and executing test plans across system, integration, UAT and regression phases
• Building and maintaining automated test frameworks using Selenium (Java)
• Using AI-based testing tools (for example testRigor or similar) to improve efficiency and coverage
• Performing API testing with Postman and Rest Assured
• Validating data using SQL
• Integrating automated tests into CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
• Identifying, tracking and managing defects using tools such as Jira
• Collaborating closely with developers, product owners and business analysts to embed quality across the development lifecycle
• Using modern tooling, including AI/LLMs, to support test generation, data creation and defect insights What we're looking for
• Strong experience with Selenium and Java
• Solid API testing experience (Postman or similar)
• Good knowledge of SQL / MySQL
• Experience building or contributing to automation frameworks
• Exposure to CI/CD environments
• Comfortable working in Agile teams and collaborating cross-functionally Nice to have
• Experience with Azure or cloud-based environments
• Exposure to messaging technologies (such as Service Bus or RabbitMQ)
• Experience with GitLab or modern DevOps tooling
• Familiarity with AI-driven testing tools Why join us? Benefits include:
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity leave
• Medical cash plan
• Virtual GP
• Enhanced annual leave with length of service
• Death in service (3x your basic salary)
• Free parking
• Career mobility
• Referral scheme (up to £2,400 a year per referral)
• Incentives, including annual trips abroad