Senior QA Analyst — Hybrid, Quality & Release Lead

Erin Associates Ltd; Altrincham; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Benefits package

Job summary

Erin Associates Ltd. is seeking a Senior QA Analyst in Altrincham with hybrid working. The role focuses on ensuring quality, reliability, and usability across products, collaborating with developers, product, support and implementation teams to support new features and releases.

The ideal candidate offers strong manual testing experience, test planning, defect tracking and UAT support, with a proactive approach to improving testing processes and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Experience in software QA and manual testing across web-based or business systems.
• Strong knowledge of functional, regression, exploratory and release testing.
• Experience reviewing specifications, requirements and user stories to identify gaps and risks.
• Experience creating and maintaining test plans, scenarios, cases and scripts.
• Experience tracking defects and using test management or defect tracking tools.
• Strong analytical skills to investigate issues and validate fixes.
• Experience supporting UAT, release verification, and integration testing.

Responsibilities

• Maintain product quality and support release readiness.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify risks early and improve testing practices.
• Take ownership of workload and share knowledge to influence continuous improvement.

Skills

Software QA

Manual testing

Test planning

Defect tracking

UAT support

Release verification

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

ISTQB certification

Tools

TestMo

Job description

Erin Associates Ltd. is seeking a Senior QA Analyst in Altrincham with hybrid working. The role focuses on ensuring quality, reliability, and usability across products, collaborating with developers, product, support and implementation teams to support new features and releases.

The ideal candidate offers strong manual testing experience, test planning, defect tracking and UAT support, with a proactive approach to improving testing processes and quality standards.