Senior QA Analyst

Altech Group Ltd; Manchester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Altech Group Ltd. seeks a Senior QA Analyst to champion quality across our fintech product. You will be hands-on, test early in the cycle, and validate releases with confidence.

The role emphasizes exploratory testing, API checks, and strong collaboration with developers, testers, and product teams. The ideal candidate brings experience in web-based/business systems testing, strong analytical skills, and the ability to communicate issues effectively.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in manual QA on web-based or business systems.
• Ability to scrutinise requirements and user stories to identify risks and edge cases.
• Experience with API testing using Postman and writing SQL queries to assist testing.
• Clear communication of issues to developers, support and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Be the voice of quality across the product, challenging requirements early.
• Own testing approaches, ensure releases go out with confidence.
• Promote best practices in testing and share knowledge with the team.
• Support personal development, including professional qualifications.

Skills

Manual QA

Exploratory testing

API testing

Postman

SQL

Test management tools

Defect tracking

Log analysis

UAT

Release testing

Tools

Postman

SQL

Test management tools

Defect tracking

Job description

Senior QA Analyst - Manual / Exploratory / API Testing

Hiring for a Fintech, well-established, profitable business that has grown steadily for years and still feels like a close-knit team. They have a stable product, loyal customers and a team that actually cares about getting releases right.

They want a Senior QA Analyst to be the voice of quality across the product. You'll get involved early, challenging requirements before anything is built, then make sure every release goes out with confidence. It's a senior, hands-on role with plenty of autonomy and no line management, so you can focus on improving how testing is done and sharing what you know with the rest of the team. They support personal development too, including help with professional qualifications.

The tools you'll be using:

Manual & Exploratory Testing | Regression Testing | API Testing | Postman | SQL | Test Management Tools | Defect Tracking | Log Analysis | Cloud Software | UAT | Release Testing

Ideally you'll have:

• Strong experience in manual QA on web-based or business systems
• Confidence picking apart requirements and user stories to spot risks and edge cases before testing starts
• Experience with API testing using Postman, and writing SQL queries to help with testing
• The ability to explain issues clearly to developers, support and product people
• A bonus if you have ISTQB or have worked on integration testing with third parties