Qa Test Analyst

Techolony; Preston; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A project services company seeks experienced QA Testers for a 3-month rolling contract. You will execute end-to-end testing on financial services applications, manage defects, and validate data migrations. Ideal candidates have over 5 years in QA/Test within UK financial services and are familiar with tools like Jira and Azure DevOps. This hybrid position in Preston requires close collaboration with delivery teams and client SMEs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in QA/Test with recent UK financial services projects.
• Demonstrable ownership of E2E test cycles in complex change programmes.
• Strong triage, prioritization and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Execute E2E testing across web, mobile, and back-office systems.
• Manage defects and coordinate with development teams.
• Validate data migration and perform reconciliation checks.

Skills

Financial services QA

End-to-end test delivery

Defect leadership

Data & SQL

Tools: Jira or Azure DevOps

Cross-browser/device testing

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Postman

SoapUI

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.

About The Programme

You’ll join a Transition & Transformation programme migrating systems and data across a financial services landscape (mortgages, savings, core banking and digital/mobile). You’ll work day-to-day with our delivery team and our clients SMEs to plan, execute and assure end-to-end testing across applications, integrations and data pipelines.

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