QA Engineer
Moorepay · M12QF · posted 87 days ago
Going rate £41,200UK median £47,118
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2136IT quality and testing professionals
Going rate for this occupation: £41,200 · UK median pay £47,118
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Where this salary sits
- UK pay for this occupation
- This role£40,942 to £61,324estimated
- Going rate£41,200
- UK median£47,118
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| Percentile | Pay |
|---|---|
| 25th | £36,725 |
| 50th | £47,118 |
| 75th | £55,008 |
| Going rate | £41,200 |
| UK median | £47,118 |
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The Quality Assurance Engineer plays a central role in ensuring the delivery of high-quality, secure, and reliable software across our engineering squads. This role encompasses both manual and automated testing, covering functional, integration, regression, performance, and AI-driven behaviours as we adopt intelligent agent systems and features. Working closely with the team, you will design robust test strategies, develop automated test suites, perform exploratory testing, and ensure that quality gates are built into every stage of the delivery lifecycle. You will be instrumental in shaping how we test modern cloud-native, AI-enhanced services and ensure that testing practices scale as the platform grows.
The QA Engineer is essential to ensuring that the organisation delivers high-quality, secure, and trustworthy software as we scale across multiple autonomous squads. With AI-first engineering and agent-based workflows becoming core to our solutions, this role ensures that all features AI-driven or traditional are thoroughly validated, safe, reliable, and ready for production. You will help shape the future of quality engineering in an AI-enabled organisation.
This is a full time, permanent role working on a hybrid basis with 3 days per week in Manchester.
Core responsibilities:
Test Planning & Quality Strategy
Define and execute comprehensive test plans covering manual, automated, functional, and non-functional testing. Ensure testing covers requirements, acceptance criteria, security considerations, and architectural guidance. Contribute to story refinement by identifying test scenarios, edge cases, and risks early. Be an advocate for quality engineering best practices within the squad.
Manual Testing & Exploratory Analysis
Conduct manual functional testing across web, API, microservices, and agent-based features. Perform exploratory testing to uncover defects related to logic, user flows, AI responses, or edge cases. Document and reproduce defects clearly, collaborating closely with engineers on resolutions.
Automated Testing Development
Design, build, and maintain automated test suites for regression, integration, performance and end-to-end testing. Develop test scripts using modern automation frameworks (e.g. Playwright, Cypress, Selenium, Postman/Newman, or API automation tools). Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines in partnership with SRE and engineers. Implement automated validations for AI components, such as output consistency checks, guardrail tests, or behavioural evaluation patterns.
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