Junior QA Engineer: Hybrid Role with Growth

Acorn Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Career development

Mental health support

Flexible hours

Job summary

Acorn Insurance, a UK-based specialist broker and part of the Acorn Group, is seeking a Junior QA Engineer in Liverpool City Centre. You’ll contribute to customer-facing platforms and internal systems, working with Developers, Product Owners and Business Analysts.

This role offers a clear path to build expertise in manual testing, defect management, accessibility, mobile testing, automation awareness and agile delivery, with support from experienced QA colleagues.

Qualifications

• Some experience in QA or a similar role.
• Strong understanding of manual testing including functional, regression, smoke and exploratory testing.
• Ability to analyse requirements, identify gaps and ask clarifying questions early.
• Confidence writing and executing test cases with edge cases and negative scenarios.
• Experience raising defects clearly in a test management tool, ideally Azure DevOps.
• Awareness of WCAG 2.2 accessibility and using tools like WAVE or axe DevTools.
• Understanding GDPR and data privacy when testing with test data.
• Strong communication and collaboration with Developers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts.

Responsibilities

• Understand PBIs and requirements, raise questions with BAs to clarify acceptance criteria.
• Create, maintain, and execute test cases aligned to squad deliverables.
• Design edge cases and boundary condition tests beyond happy paths.
• Carry out manual testing across functional, regression, smoke and cross-browser tests.
• Log defects in Azure DevOps with reproduction steps and severity.
• Work with development teams to support timely defect resolution within sprints.
• Contribute to exploratory and risk-based testing for new features and complex changes.
• Flag accessibility issues on customer-facing pages using browser tools (WAVE/axe DevTools).
• Handle test data responsibly, avoiding real customer data and raising GDPR concerns.
• Participate in sprint ceremonies, providing QA input on estimation, planning and blockers.
• Track test execution progress in Azure DevOps and follow QA processes.

Skills

QA basics

Manual testing

Cross-browser testing

Defect reporting

Azure DevOps

Accessibility WCAG 2.2

GDPR data privacy

Communication

Education

ISTQB Foundation

Tools

Playwright

Git

SQL

BrowserStack

TestFlight

Intune

Azure DevOps CI/CD

Job description

Acorn Insurance, a UK-based specialist broker and part of the Acorn Group, is seeking a Junior QA Engineer in Liverpool City Centre. You’ll contribute to customer-facing platforms and internal systems, working with Developers, Product Owners and Business Analysts.

This role offers a clear path to build expertise in manual testing, defect management, accessibility, mobile testing, automation awareness and agile delivery, with support from experienced QA colleagues.