Qa Test Analyst

Techolony Limited; Penwortham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A project services company is seeking a qualified QA Tester in Penwortham to manage end-to-end testing for financial services projects. The ideal candidate will have over 5 years of QA experience, especially in UK financial services like mortgages and banking, along with proficiency in tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps. This role requires strong defect management and data validation skills, with a hybrid work model.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of QA/Test experience in UK financial services.
• Hands-on testing experience in mortgages, savings, core banking.
• Demonstrable ownership of end-to-end test cycles.

Responsibilities

• Execute E2E testing across web and mobile systems.
• Manage defects and drive resolutions with development teams.
• Validate data mappings and perform reconciliations.

Skills

Financial services QA

End-to-end test delivery

Defect leadership

Data & SQL

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Postman

Git

Job description

Overview

Engagement: 3-month rolling contract
Start: Target start early October
Location: North West, hybrid (preferred on-site with client teams as needed)
IR35: Outside of IR35

A project services company are expanding their Associate Testing Team with high quality QA Testers in preparation for project work commencing in October.

What you’ll do

• Execute E2E testing: Author and run functional, system, SIT, UAT support and regression suites across web, mobile (iOS/Android), and back-office systems.

• Defect management: Triage, track and report defects (Jira/Azure DevOps), drive resolution with development and SME teams.

• Data migration testing: Validate mappings, perform sample-based and full reconciliations, prove data quality and completeness before/after cutover

• Non-functional support: Contribute to performance, reliability and basic security test activities (e.g., JMeter, OWASP awareness).

• Environment & test data: Coordinate environments, seed/refresh masked datasets, maintain repeatable test data sets.

• Readiness & cutover: Support go/no-go criteria, warranty/hypercare defect burn-down, and test completion reporting with clear MI.

• Collaboration: Partner with client SMEs (mortgages, savings, core banking, digital) and delivery leads; communicate status, risks and mitigations.

Essential Experience

• Financial services QA: 5+ years in QA/Test with recent UK financial services projects.

• Domain coverage: Hands-on testing across mortgages, savings, core banking and digital/mobile customer journeys.

• End-to-end test delivery: Demonstrable ownership of E2E test cycles in complex change or migration programmes.

• Defect leadership: Strong triage, prioritisation and stakeholder management; confident driving root-cause and fixes.

• Tools: Jira or Azure DevOps (Boards/Test Plans), Confluence, Postman/SoapUI, Git-based repos for test assets.

• Data & SQL: Competent SQL for validation/reconciliation; comfort with CSV extracts, views and basic ETL results checking.

• Mobile & web: Cross-browser/device testing; accessibility and usability awareness.

• Reporting: Clear, concise test progress/quality reporting and RAID management.

Desirable (Nice to Have)

• Certifications: ISTQB Foundation/Advanced, Agile testing credentials.

Response Times

• You will be contacted by our client representative by Monday 8th September.