
Manual Tester
- Leeds
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Plan, design, and execute thorough manual test cases across web, API, and microservice components.
- Create and maintain detailed test plans, test scenarios, and traceability matrices that align with project requirements.
- Perform functional, regression, exploratory, usability, and ad-hoc testing to verify software quality.
- Log, track, and validate defects using Jira (or equivalent), working closely with developers and stakeholders until resolution.
- Participate in daily stand-ups, sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives alongside Team Leaders and Product Owners to ensure timely delivery.
- Collaborate with product owners to understand feature requirements and acceptance criteria, translating them into clear test cases.
- Provide concise, actionable testing status reports and metrics to highlight coverage, defects, and risks.
- Advocate for process improvements to enhance manual testing efficiency and quality practices.
- Proven experience in manual testing within an Agile environment.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and QA best practices.
- Excellent test-case authorship and defect-reporting skills.
- Solid SQL skills for back-end/data validation on SQL Server (or similar RDBMS).
- Familiarity with version control concepts (e.g., Git) to review requirements and track test artifacts.
- Ability to work under pressure, prioritise tasks, and meet tight deadlines.
- Hands-on experience with API testing tools (e.g., Postman).
- Exposure to cross-browser and device compatibility testing, including tools like BrowserStack.
- Basic knowledge of test-management platforms.
- Familiarity with JavaScript and modern front-end frameworks to understand UI behaviour.
- Experience with Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence) for requirements and defect management.
- 37.5 Hours a week, hybrid working. 2 days a week in the Leeds office.
- 25 days holiday.
- Performance based bonus.
- Private Medical insurance.
- Life cover.
- Healthcare cash back scheme.
- Group Pension Plan.
- Half a day a week for self-learning.
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