Software Quality Assurance Engineer — Bristol On-Site

Zenovo; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus & Benefits

Job summary

Zenovo is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join a collaborative engineering and quality team in Bristol. The role focuses on independent software assurance across the full SDLC, partnering with design, development, testing and release teams to strengthen processes and promote a proactive quality culture.

The ideal candidate has hands-on QA or development experience, a solid grasp of the SDLC, and familiarity with ISO 9001 in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Software Quality Assurance with a development environment.
• Strong understanding of the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
• Awareness and understanding of software development frameworks and methodologies.
• Experience in a structured, quality-focused, regulated, or complex engineering environment desirable.
• Familiarity with ISO 9001.
• Strong analytical skills to translate findings into actionable insights.
• Experience supporting process compliance, audits, non-conformances, corrective actions, or continuous improvement activities.
• Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
• Confident communication across engineering, quality and project teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent software assurance across design, development, testing and release activities.
• Conduct process compliance checks, identifying inconsistencies, non-conformances and corrective actions.
• Participate in software lifecycle reviews, including design, code, testing and release approvals.
• Support Change Control Boards, ensuring software quality and process requirements are addressed.
• Analyse and report software development KPIs to support quality objectives and continuous improvement.
• Advise software engineers on development processes, quality standards and procedural requirements.
• Conduct internal audits and support customer and external audits as required.
• Maintain quality records and contribute to QMS improvement, process optimisation and engineering efficiency.

Skills

Software QA

SDLC

Quality frameworks

ISO 9001

Analytical skills

Audits & compliance

Organisational skills

Communication

Process improvement

Job description

Zenovo is seeking a Software Quality Assurance Engineer to join a collaborative engineering and quality team in Bristol. The role focuses on independent software assurance across the full SDLC, partnering with design, development, testing and release teams to strengthen processes and promote a proactive quality culture.

The ideal candidate has hands-on QA or development experience, a solid grasp of the SDLC, and familiarity with ISO 9001 in a regulated environment.