QA Engineer - Hybrid, Automation & Cloud Testing

CPS Group (UK) Limited; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

CPS Group are supporting a Financial Services organisation in Cardiff seeking an experienced QA Engineer to own testing across the development lifecycle.

The role is hands-on, requires automation alongside UI/API testing, and mentoring of junior QA team members. It offers hybrid working from Cardiff with an up-to-£45,000 salary plus annual bonus and opportunities to drive quality improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience across both manual and automated testing.
• Hands-on experience with Playwright or WebdriverIO.
• Experience with Cucumber or another BDD framework.
• Working knowledge of Java or JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Strong SQL skills and experience with relational databases.
• API testing experience and experience with CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the testing approach for features from requirements through to production.
• Design and maintain automated tests across UI, API and integration layers.
• Work with Playwright or WebdriverIO, alongside Cucumber/BDD.
• Carry out manual, automated, API, integration and exploratory testing.
• Use SQL to query relational databases and support test data requirements.
• Identify risks, dependencies and potential issues early in the development process.
• Work with Git and CI/CD pipelines to support automated testing.
• Contribute to improvements across QA processes and testing standards.
• Support and mentor junior members of the QA team.

Skills

Manual testing

Automated testing

Playwright

WebdriverIO

Cucumber/BDD

Java/JavaScript/TypeScript

SQL

API testing

Git

CI/CD pipelines

QA ownership

Performance testing

AWS/cloud basics

Tools

Playwright

WebdriverIO

Cucumber

Git

Job description

CPS Group are supporting a Financial Services organisation in Cardiff seeking an experienced QA Engineer to own testing across the development lifecycle.

The role is hands-on, requires automation alongside UI/API testing, and mentoring of junior QA team members. It offers hybrid working from Cardiff with an up-to-£45,000 salary plus annual bonus and opportunities to drive quality improvements.