Technical QA Engineer — Risk‑Based Testing & Automation

Different Technologies Pty Ltd.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Training budget

Volunteering leave

Private health insurance

EV salary sacrifice

Job summary

Daintta is seeking a hands-on Technical Quality Assurance Engineer to deliver risk-based quality assurance across complex, high-assurance client and internal systems in government and private sectors.

You will perform exploratory, functional, API, integration and system testing, using data, logs and automation to identify risks and provide evidence of quality throughout the delivery lifecycle. The role requires collaboration with developers and clients in a fast-growing, agile environment.

Qualifications

• You are experienced in software quality assurance and testing across the delivery lifecycle.
• Hands-on testing of APIs, integrations, systems, and exploratory testing.
• Ability to use APIs, logs, data and SQL to investigate defects and system behavior.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and decompose requirements, user stories and designs to identify quality risks and test coverage.
• Design and execute functional, exploratory, API, integration, system and end-to-end testing.
• Test REST APIs, service integrations and data flows, validating behavior and error handling.
• Investigate defects using logs, API requests/responses, databases and CI/CD outputs.
• Create and maintain clear test evidence and traceability between requirements, risks and outcomes.
• Collaborate with developers, architects and delivery teams to embed quality early and prevent defects.
• Contribute to automated regression testing and work with the Test Automation Engineer to increase coverage.
• Support integration of testing and quality checks within CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Quality Assurance

API testing

Exploratory testing

System testing

Test automation

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SQL

Browser DevTools

CI/CD tools

Job description

Daintta is seeking a hands-on Technical Quality Assurance Engineer to deliver risk-based quality assurance across complex, high-assurance client and internal systems in government and private sectors.

You will perform exploratory, functional, API, integration and system testing, using data, logs and automation to identify risks and provide evidence of quality throughout the delivery lifecycle. The role requires collaboration with developers and clients in a fast-growing, agile environment.