QA Engineer

Overview

The QA Engineer supports high-quality software delivery across the full development lifecycle by applying QA best practices and contributing to automated and manual testing. The role collaborates with cross-functional teams to improve the resilience, efficiency and security of digital products while aligning with governance standards and user expectations.

What you'll do

• Maintain quality standards for projects and provide support to team members.
• Engage with the QA community to learn about and adopt best practices.
• Support the implementation and adherence to quality standards and coding best practices.
• Contribute to discussions and initiatives that support a culture of quality within the team and organisation.
• Offer a quality assurance perspective in team discussions, focusing on the practical application of engineering stories.
• Work with product leads where necessary to ensure quality in engineering stories.
• Execute tests to maintain quality in engineering stories and support test team leads, product leads and stakeholders.
• Follow established test standards and methods to ensure software development projects meet acceptance criteria at all stages.
• Execute automated and manual tests to ensure products and services meet expected quality criteria.
• Maintain automated test scripts within the team’s frameworks.
• Perform manual testing activities to maximise test coverage and identify defects that might be missed by automated tests.
• Help integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines through collaborative efforts with engineering peers.
• Participate in TDD practices under the mentorship of more experienced team members.
• Use tools like JIRA for tracking defects and support communication regarding issues and their resolutions.
• Assist in developing test plans and cases for manual and automated tests.
• Stay informed about current testing tools, methodologies and industry best practices to support continuous improvement in quality processes.
• Support the identification of potential system risks and contribute to implementing security measures.
• Assist senior team members to ensure solutions meet industry standards, regulations and data privacy requirements.
• Help monitor and maintain tools for detecting and responding to potential security or compliance issues.
• Work alongside the team to understand product requirements and user needs.
• Support reporting on quality metrics and test results and contribute data and insights to the QA engineering team, development team, product leads and stakeholders.

What you'll need

• Experience in Quality Assurance, including both manual and automated testing in agile environments.
• Understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) and the role of QA.
• Experience with automation tools such as Selenium and Playwright.
• Exposure to scripting in Java, C#, .NET, JavaScript and Typescript.
• Understanding of standard testing methodologies and events, including Black-box testing, story testing and regression testing.
• Knowledge of testing frameworks such as BDD tools and associated tools such as Cucumber.
• Basic knowledge of RESTful APIs.
• Awareness of relational database concepts and SQL, with an ability to compose basic queries.
• Understanding of CI/CD tools for test integration and automation.
• Experience in device and browser testing.
• Experience raising defects in defect tracking tools such as JIRA.
• Practical grasp of fundamental web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript for debugging.
• Reliable written and oral communication skills to support test documentation and defect reporting.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills in English.
• Experience with Selenium, Playwright and API testing.

Nice to have

• Basic or beginner knowledge of cloud platforms for testing, such as AWS or Azure.
• Understanding of security testing concepts and practices.
• Exposure to performance testing concepts and tools.
• Critical thinking and an eye for detail in the QA process.
• Exposure to best practices in software security testing.
• Familiarity with usability and user experience (UX) testing.
• Awareness of Azure DevOps tools, especially Azure Test Plans, through exposure or use.
• Some exposure to automating web application tests using common tools or libraries in a test environment context.
• Familiarity with basic application monitoring tools, such as Application Insights, and their importance in the QA/test process.
• Basic knowledge or some experience with relational database testing, possibly with Azure SQL Database or similar.

Details

• Location: Noida.
• Contract type: Fixed Term Contract.
• Safeguarding checks will be required for positions with direct involvement with vulnerable groups, in line with legal requirements and British Council safeguarding policies for adults and children.