Junior QA & Test Automation Engineer

_nology; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mentoring

Training programs

Career growth

Collaborative culture

Competitive salary

Job summary

_nology offers an early-career pathway for bootcamp graduates or STEM graduates to pursue Quality Engineering and Test Automation within the UK. You will join a supportive community with an onsite manager, ongoing mentoring, and remote training to gain hands-on experience on leading organisations’ public sector projects.

Starting salary is £26,700 with pay rises at 6 and 12 months based on performance. After training, you will attend client projects at the office a minimum of 3 days per week in

Qualifications

• Coding bootcamp grads or STEM graduates pursuing QA careers.
• Exposure to testing or automation through academics, internships, bootcamps or projects.
• Familiarity with Selenium and Cucumber, or willingness to learn these technologies.
• Understanding of test planning, execution, defect management, and automation frameworks.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD concepts would be advantageous.
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and problem-solving abilities.
• Proactive attitude and eagerness to learn and grow in tech.
• Eligible for UK Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Support testing and QA across multiple projects.
• Collaborate with developers, analysts and engineering teams to ensure quality delivery.
• Create, execute, and maintain automated test scripts.
• Assist with test planning, execution, defect identification and tracking.
• Support CI/CD pipelines by integrating automated testing.
• Identify defects and communicate areas for improvement.
• Apply testing best practices to improve software quality and reliability.
• Collaborate within agile teams to deliver projects.

Skills

Selenium

Cucumber

Git

CI/CD

Agile

Testing principles

Test automation

Education

Coding bootcamp

STEM degree

Tools

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

_nology offers an early-career pathway for bootcamp graduates or STEM graduates to pursue Quality Engineering and Test Automation within the UK. You will join a supportive community with an onsite manager, ongoing mentoring, and remote training to gain hands-on experience on leading organisations’ public sector projects.

Starting salary is £26,700 with pay rises at 6 and 12 months based on performance. After training, you will attend client projects at the office a minimum of 3 days per week in