Test Engineer

MCS Group | Your Specialist Recruitment Consultancy; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 49,500 - 60,500; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment consultancy is seeking a Software Test Engineer for a fast-growing Insurtech firm in Belfast. The role involves championing quality across their product suite, with an emphasis on automating test processes. The ideal candidate will have solid experience in software testing and CI/CD practices. This hybrid position offers a competitive salary of up to £55,000 along with a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Solid commercial experience in software testing, including automation.
• Comfortable testing UIs to databases as a full-stack tester.
• Experience with cloud testing and microservices.

Responsibilities

• Lead manual and automated testing across web apps, APIs, and cloud services.
• Build and maintain automated test suites using modern frameworks.
• Develop performance and load tests for scalability and reliability.

Skills

Software testing

Automation and quality engineering

API testing (Postman or similar)

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud-based systems and microservices

Tools

Selenium

Cypress

Playwright

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

MCS Group is seeking a Software Test Engineer to join one of their closest clients, a fast-growing Insurtech firm. With huge investment onboard in 2025, this firm's technology function is planning to scale by over 50% in the first half of 2026 and this will include it's quality assurance division scaling. An exclusive role to MCS Group, the Software Tester will champion quality across their product suite and play a key role in embedding test automation into the organisation. Reporting to a really talent QA Lead, you'll work within a high-performing engineering team to ensure their distributed, enterprise-grade software is reliable, scalable, secure, and built to last.

This is a hybrid role in Belfast

What You\'ll Do

• The Software Tester will play a key role in the quality strategy for their engineering pod, delivering both manual and automated testing across web apps, APIs, and cloud services.
• You'll build and maintain automated test suites using modern frameworks (Selenium, Cypress and Playwright).
• You'll develop functional, integration, performance, and security tests, ensuring seamless third-party integration.
• Collaborate closely with Software Engineers, Platform Engineers, and Product to embed quality early ("shift-left") in the development lifecycle.
• Validate developer unit tests and ensure alignment with business requirements.
• Drive continuous quality through CI/CD integration and strong version-control practices.
• Conduct performance and load testing to assess scalability and reliability.
• Work with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) to validate infrastructure and service integrations.

What You Bring

• You'll have solid commercial experience in software testing, including automation and quality engineering.
• You'll consider yourself ideally as a "full-stack" tester; comfortable testing UIs to databases.
• Experience testing cloud-based systems and microservices.
• Hands-on API testing experience (Postman or similar).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Passion for high-quality software, a collaborative mindset, and the confidence to challenge when needed.
• Up to £55,000 with a competitive benefits package.

To speak in absolute confidence about this opportunity, please send an up-to-date CV via the link provided or contact Chris Busby, Associate Director - IT Recruitment, at MCS Group

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