Senior Quality Assurance Analyst

InHealth Group Limited; Middlewich; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Generous pension

Learning and development opportunities

Well-being hub

Employee recognition

Job summary

InHealth Group Limited is seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst in the Middlewich area with hybrid remote options. The role focuses on ownership of testing across projects and releases, influencing quality throughout the lifecycle, and advancing testing practices within a collaborative team.

You will lead testing activities, design robust test plans, conduct various testing types, ensure alignment with business and technical requirements, and drive defect resolution while mentoring junior

Qualifications

• Experience in software testing and quality assurance
• Strong experience testing web-based applications
• Experience creating and maintaining test plans, test cases and test reports
• Strong defect management and root cause analysis skills
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments
• Experience using defect and test management tools
• A good understanding of software development lifecycles and release management
• Confidence communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring or supporting less experienced testing colleagues
• A naturally inquisitive mindset with excellent attention to detail

Responsibilities

• Lead testing activities across software projects and scheduled releases
• Design, maintain and execute comprehensive test plans, scenarios and test cases
• Carry out functional, regression, integration, exploratory and user acceptance testing
• Ensure testing coverage reflects business requirements, technical design and risk
• Identify, investigate and manage defects, working closely with development teams to drive resolution
• Assess quality and release risk and contribute to go/no-go decisions
• Provide clear testing, quality and risk updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Support the adoption of test automation and wider quality engineering practices
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve our testing processes, standards and methodologies
• Mentor and support less experienced members of the testing team
• Support software releases, production deployments and post-release verification

Skills

Software testing

Quality assurance

Test planning

Defect management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Test automation

Attention to detail

Communication

Job description

Middlewich / Remote | Software Development & Testing

Help us build better software. Champion quality from the very start.

Are you an experienced Quality Assurance professional who believes great software quality starts long before testing begins?

At InHealth, we're looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst to play a key role in the quality, reliability and usability of the digital solutions that support our services.

This is more than a hands-on testing role. You'll take ownership of testing across projects and software releases, influence how we approach quality throughout the development lifecycle, and help us continue evolving our testing practices.

Working alongside Product Owners, Developers, Business Analysts and Infrastructure Engineers, you'll have the opportunity to challenge, influence and make a genuine impact on the quality of the software we deliver.

What you will do

As a senior member of our Development & Testing function, you'll lead by example and champion a quality-first, risk-based approach to software delivery.

You'll:

• Lead testing activities across software projects and scheduled releases
• Design, maintain and execute comprehensive test plans, scenarios and test cases
• Carry out functional, regression, integration, exploratory and user acceptance testing
• Ensure testing coverage reflects business requirements, technical design and risk
• Identify, investigate and manage defects, working closely with development teams to drive resolution
• Assess quality and release risk and contribute to go/no-go decisions
• Provide clear testing, quality and risk updates to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Support the adoption of test automation and wider quality engineering practices
• Identify opportunities to continuously improve our testing processes, standards and methodologies
• Mentor and support less experienced members of the testing team
• Support software releases, production deployments and post-release verification

About you

You'll be an experienced software testing professional who combines strong technical QA knowledge with excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder management skills.

You'll bring:

• Experience in software testing and quality assurance
• Strong experience testing web-based applications
• Experience creating and maintaining test plans, test cases and test reports
• Strong defect management and root cause analysis skills
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments
• Experience using defect and test management tools
• A good understanding of software development lifecycles and release management
• Confidence communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience mentoring or supporting less experienced testing colleagues
• A naturally inquisitive mindset with excellent attention to detail

Experience within healthcare, NHS or another regulated environment would be particularly valuable. Knowledge of SQL and data validation, API testing, test automation, Azure DevOps or Jira, performance, accessibility or security testing would also be advantageous.

Why this role?

This is an opportunity to join a team where you'll have the scope to do more than find defects.

You'll help shape how we approach quality, influence software releases, develop other testers and contribute to the continued evolution of our testing and quality engineering capability.

If you're passionate about building reliable, user-focused software and want a role where your experience and ideas can make a real difference, we'd love to hear from you.

What's in it for you

We offer a fantastic benefits package, which is available through a mobile-enabled rewards platform, called InJoy. This is your place to access thousands of offers and discounts on a wide range of products and services relating to: fashion, travel, eating out, technology, leisure and more!

In addition to this, we also offer:

• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Generous company contribution pension scheme
• Fantastic learning and development opportunities
• 24/7 access to a dedicated well-being hub and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Monthly award programme and online peer-to-peer recognition
• Refer a friend bonus
• Discounts on InHealth’s healthcare services
• Smart tech, Cycle to Work and thousands of discounts and cashback options
• Paid-for professional memberships and more!

Making sure our people are happy at work is one of our main priorities, which means giving them as many opportunities as we can to support their personal and professional growth. We also have an innovative approach to personal and professional development, helping you to be the best version of you and giving you a real career pathway. IND02

About us

InHealth is the UK’s largest specialist provider of diagnostic and healthcare solutions, working in partnership with the NHS for more than 30 years to make healthcare better for more than 5 million patients each year.

Behind every test, scan and assessment is a team of people helping our services run smoothly, efficiently and with care. With opportunities across community, hospital and office-based settings, InHealth offers the chance to grow your career in a people-focused organisation where your work supports millions of patients and helps bring high-quality healthcare closer to local communities.

InHealth is a place where you're trusted to do your job well, supported by people who value your expertise and give you the space to act on it. Teams show up for each other, leaders back your judgment and help remove blockers rather than create them.

New opportunities open as we grow - whether that's progressing, moving sideways or taking on something different as your strengths evolve. And everything we do is focussed on making healthcare better - for patients, partners and the people delivering care.