QA Tester

Sponsor Finder; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 28,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Work abroad option

Private health care

Job summary

Sponsor Finder is hiring a QA Tester to help us ship reliable software across our web and mobile products. You'll test new features and releases, document defects, and help build out automated test coverage. The role is open to candidates with 1 to 3 years of experience.

You'll sit within a cross-functional squad in an Agile environment, involved from refinement through to release. Strong collaboration and communication are key to success in this role.

Qualifications

• At least 1 year's hands-on experience testing web or mobile software in a commercial setting.
• Solid understanding of SDLC and testing fundamentals (test types, design, defect life cycle).
• Experience writing test cases and raising well-documented bugs.
• Familiarity with an issue tracker and test management tools.
• Methodical, curious mindset with strong attention to detail.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical issues to non-technical colleagues.
• Experience leveraging AI to streamline and automate testing.

Responsibilities

• Review user stories and acceptance criteria early, surface gaps and edge cases.
• Write and maintain clear test cases, plans and checklists for new features.
• Carry out manual functional, exploratory, regression and cross-browser/device testing.
• Log defects with clear steps, evidence and severity, follow to resolution.
• Run regression and smoke tests ahead of releases and provide go/no-go view.
• Verify fixes and support release and post-release checks in production.
• Help improve QA processes, documentation and test data management.
• Share product knowledge with the wider team and support Customer Success.

Skills

Web/mobile testing

Bug reporting

Test case writing

CI/CD familiarity

Communication

Agile/Scrum

AI-assisted testing

Tools

Jira

TestRail

GitHub Actions

Job description

About Us

We're hiring a QA Tester to help us ship reliable software, faster. You'll test new features and releases across our web and mobile products, find and document defects, and help build out our automated test coverage. The role is open to candidates from around 1 to 3 years' experience.

About the role and team

You'll sit within a cross-functional product squad alongside developers, a product managers and project managers, working in Agile sprints. Quality is a shared responsibility here: you'll be involved from refinement through to release, not just at the end.

Key responsibilities

• Review user stories and acceptance criteria early, asking questions that surface gaps and edge cases before code is written

• Write and maintain clear test cases, test plans and checklists for new features

• Carry out manual functional, exploratory, regression and cross-browser/device testing

• Log defects with clear reproduction steps, evidence and severity, and follow them through to resolution

• Run regression and smoke tests ahead of releases and give a clear go/no-go view

• Verify fixes and support release and post-release checks in production

• Help improve QA processes, documentation and test data management

• Share product knowledge with the wider team and support colleagues in Customer Success when issues are raised

Skills and experience

Essential

• At least 1 year's hands-on experience testing web or mobile software in a commercial setting

• Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle and testing fundamentals (test types, test design techniques, defect life cycle)

• Experience writing test cases and raising well-documented bugs

• Familiarity with an issue tracker and test management tools

• A methodical, curious mindset and strong attention to detail

• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining technical issues to non-technical colleagues

• Experience in leveraging AI to streamline and automate testing

Desirable

• Some experience with test automation

• Basic SQL for checking and preparing test data

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions) and version control with Git

• Awareness of accessibility (WCAG), performance or security testing

• Experience testing B2B SaaS or multi-tenant platforms

Benefits

As you can see, we are quickly progressing with our ambitious plans and are eager to grow our team of doers to achieve our vision of managing over 2 million properties through our platform across various countries. You can help us shape the future of property management across the globe. Here’s what we offer:

• A competitive compensation package

• 25 days annual holiday + 1 additional day for every year served up to 3 years.

• Flexible working environment including the option to work abroad

• Private health care for you and immediate family members with discounted gym membership, optical, dental and private GP

• Enhanced parental leave

• Life insurance (4x salary)

• Employee assistance program

• Company volunteering day and charity salary sacrifice scheme

• Learning management system powered by Udemy

• Referral bonus and charity donation if someone you introduce joins the company

• Season ticket loan, Cycle to work, Electric vehicle and Techscheme programs

• Pension scheme

• Work abroad scheme

• Company-sponsored lunches, dinners and social gatherings