QA Analyst

Intec Select Ltd; Aldgate; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Intec Select Ltd is seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst to join our hybrid London team. You will blend hands-on manual testing with automated Cypress scripts, validating complex CTRM/ETRM workflows and data flows across integrated systems.

You will translate user stories and business requirements into robust test scenarios, execute tests, and report defects while collaborating with developers, Product Owners and stakeholders throughout Agile ceremonies.

Qualifications

• Practical experience in a software testing or Quality Assurance role within a structured SDLC.
• Strong manual testing experience, including test analysis, test case design, execution, exploratory and regression testing.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated tests, with hands-on Cypress experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to translate user stories, business requirements and acceptance criteria into clear, risk-based tests.
• Experience identifying, documenting, prioritising and retesting defects.
• Experience working within an Agile Scrum environment.
• Experience testing CTRM or ETRM platforms.
• Exposure to commodities, trading, finance, risk, operations, logistics or other financially controlled environments.
• Experience testing complex calculations, data flows, interfaces, reports and end-to-end workflows across integrated systems.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript and Cypress for end-to-end, integration or API testing.
• Experience with API testing, SQL/database validation and CI pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories, business requirements, technical designs and acceptance criteria to identify test conditions, dependencies and risks.
• Create, maintain and execute test cases covering functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing.
• Test CTRM workflows and related business processes, including calculations, data and controls.
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests, ideally using Cypress.
• Identify suitable opportunities for automation while balancing automated, manual and exploratory testing.
• Record test evidence and clearly communicate defects, risks and test outcomes.
• Work closely with developers, Product Owners and business stakeholders to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies including refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.

Skills

Manual testing

Test analysis

Cypress

JavaScript

TypeScript

API testing

SQL/database validation

Agile Scrum

CTR M/ETRM exposure

Tools

Cypress

SQL

JavaScript

TypeScript

CI pipelines

Job description

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Practical experience in a software testing or Quality Assurance role within a structured SDLC.
• Strong manual testing experience, including test analysis, test case design, execution, exploratory and regression testing.
• Experience creating and maintaining automated tests, with hands‑on Cypress experience strongly preferred.
• Ability to translate user stories, business requirements and acceptance criteria into clear, risk‑based tests.
• Experience identifying, documenting, prioritising and retesting defects.
• Experience working within an Agile Scrum environment.
• Experience testing CTRM or ETRM platforms.
• Exposure to commodities, trading, finance, risk, operations, logistics or other financially controlled environments.
• Experience testing complex calculations, data flows, interfaces, reports and end‑to‑end workflows across integrated systems.
• Working knowledge of JavaScript or TypeScript and Cypress for end‑to‑end, integration or API testing.
• Experience with API testing, SQL/database validation and CI pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories, business requirements, technical designs and acceptance criteria to identify test conditions, dependencies and risks.
• Create, maintain and execute test cases covering functional, integration, regression and exploratory testing.
• Test CTRM workflows and related business processes, including calculations, data and controls.
• Design, develop and maintain automated tests, ideally using Cypress.
• Identify suitable opportunities for automation while balancing automated, manual and exploratory testing.
• Record test evidence and clearly communicate defects, risks and test outcomes.
• Work closely with developers, Product Owners and business stakeholders to reproduce issues and verify fixes.
• Participate in Scrum ceremonies including refinement, sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, reviews and retrospectives.

Technologies

• API
• Cypress
• JavaScript
• SQL
• TypeScript

More

We are a global organisation operating within a complex, technology‑driven environment, offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst to join our Agile Scrum team in London on a hybrid basis at £450 p/d inside IR35. This role plays a key part in ensuring improvements to a critical Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) platform are reliable, accurate and fit for business use. You will combine hands‑on manual testing with test automation, ideally using Cypress, and contribute throughout the full software development lifecycle from requirements review through to regression testing, release assurance and continuous improvement.

last updated 36 week of 2026