QA Engineer

The Quality Assurance Engineer plays a central role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software across our engineering squads. This role encompasses both manual and automated testing, covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and AI-driven behaviours as we adopt intelligent agent systems and features. Working closely with the team, you will design robust test strategies, develop automated test suites, perform exploratory testing, and ensure that quality gates are built into every stage of the delivery lifecycle. You will be instrumental in shaping how we test modern cloud-native, AI-enhanced services and ensure that testing practices scale as the platform grows. The QA Engineer is essential to ensuring that the organisation delivers high-quality, secure, and trustworthy software as we scale across multiple autonomous squads. With AI-first engineering and agent-based workflows becoming core to our solutions, this role ensures that all features AI-driven or traditional are thoroughly validated, safe, reliable, and ready for production. You will help shape the future of quality engineering in an AI-enabled organisation. This is a full time, permanent role working on a hybrid basis with 3 days per week in Manchester. Core responsibilities: Test Planning and Quality Strategy Define and execute comprehensive test plans covering manual, automated, functional, and non-functional testing. Ensure testing covers requirements, acceptance ..... full job details .....