Cybersecurity Test Engineer - Automation & Quality

CoreTech Security; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Promotions based on technical/exelll

Holiday allowance 25 days + bank hols

Buy up to 5 days additional holiday

Relocation assistance

Training and development opportunities

O'Reilly books subscription

Technical conferences

Pizza-fuelled lunchtime seminars

Fresh fruit and beverages

Job summary

CoreTech Security is seeking a hands-on Test Engineer to execute manual and automated test plans across our cyber security software. You’ll validate features, record defects and work with developers to verify fixes in an agile environment, contributing to robust, high-assurance products.

You’ll develop and maintain automated tests with Cypress or Playwright, create clear test documentation, and participate in sprint planning to translate user stories into test scenarios.

Qualifications

• Experience in software testing, QA or a similar engineering role.
• Good understanding of functional, regression, integration and exploratory testing.
• Experience writing clear and repeatable test cases from user stories or requirements.
• Familiarity with defect tracking and test management tools such as Jira, Xray, TestRail or Zephyr.
• Experience using automated testing frameworks such as Cypress or Playwright, or a willingness to develop these skills.
• Basic scripting or programming knowledge (JavaScript, TypeScript, Python or similar) to support test automation.
• Familiarity with Git and modern software development workflows.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with excellent attention to detail.
• Good communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively within an agile engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Execute manual and automated test plans across new and existing software products.
• Perform functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing to validate new features and identify defects.
• Record, reproduce and clearly document software issues, working closely with developers to investigate and verify fixes.
• Help develop and maintain automated test suites using tools such as Cypress or Playwright where appropriate.
• Validate software builds prior to release, ensuring acceptance criteria and quality standards have been met.
• Create and maintain clear, repeatable test cases and test documentation.
• Assist with setting up and maintaining test environments and representative test data.
• Work closely with Software Engineers throughout development, providing timely feedback on software quality.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog refinement and feature reviews to understand requirements and identify potential test scenarios.
• Contribute ideas to improve our testing processes, tooling and automation over time.

Skills

Software testing

QA

Functional testing

Regression testing

Integration testing

Exploratory testing

Test cases

Jira

Xray

TestRail

Zephyr

Cypress

Playwright

JavaScript

TypeScript

Python

Git

Agile

Tools

Jira

Xray

TestRail

Zephyr

Cypress

Playwright

Git

Job description

CoreTech Security is seeking a hands-on Test Engineer to execute manual and automated test plans across our cyber security software. You’ll validate features, record defects and work with developers to verify fixes in an agile environment, contributing to robust, high-assurance products.

You’ll develop and maintain automated tests with Cypress or Playwright, create clear test documentation, and participate in sprint planning to translate user stories into test scenarios.