Automation QA Engineer: Agile, Quality-First Tester

7IM; Harrow; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

7IM is seeking an experienced Manual Tester to support Agile squads with a focus on automated-first quality engineering. You will validate business requirements, design comprehensive test approaches, and execute test plans across functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.

You will create test data, run SQL queries for verification, and document evidence to ensure auditable testing. Strong communication with stakeholders is essential to drive quality and release readiness.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in manual testing across complex business and technology solutions.
• ISTQB best-practice testing techniques.
• Experience using Microsoft Azure DevOps (ADO) or similar test management tools.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality manual testing across Squad deliverables, ensuring thorough validation of business requirements and reducing the risk of defects reaching production.
• Analysis and review of functional requirements, identifying risks, gaps, ambiguities, and areas requiring clarification to influence quality outcomes early in the delivery lifecycle.
• Define and execute comprehensive test approaches, including functional, integration, regression, exploratory, and usability testing where appropriate.
• Create and maintain high-quality test scenarios, test cases, test data, and test execution evidence to support effective and auditable testing.
• Design and execute data generation, manipulation, and validation activities, including SQL queries and data analysis, to support test preparation and execution.
• Effectively communicate testing outcomes, risks, defects, and quality concerns to stakeholders, ensuring informed decisions can be made regarding release readiness.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve testing practices, processes, standards, and tools, sharing knowledge across the Test Chapter.
• Drive a quality-first culture within the Squad by promoting early testing involvement, collaboration, and strong quality engineering principles throughout the Software Development Lifecycle.
• Support and mentor team members in testing activities, helping to raise overall testing capability across the Squad and wider team.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Analysts, Developers, and stakeholders to ensure requirements are testable, understood, and aligned with business objectives.
• Contribute to release planning and go-live activities by providing clear assessments of quality, test coverage, residual risks, and production readiness.

Skills

Manual testing

Analytical thinking

Exploratory testing

Communication

Agile

SDLC knowledge

Risk-based testing

Azure DevOps

Postman

Selenium

Specflow

Playwright

Education

ISTQB Foundation

ISEB/ISTQB qualifications advantageous

Minimum 5 years’ experience

Tools

Azure DevOps

Postman

Selenium

Specflow

Playwright

Job description

7IM is seeking an experienced Manual Tester to support Agile squads with a focus on automated-first quality engineering. You will validate business requirements, design comprehensive test approaches, and execute test plans across functional, integration, regression, and exploratory testing.

You will create test data, run SQL queries for verification, and document evidence to ensure auditable testing. Strong communication with stakeholders is essential to drive quality and release readiness.