Senior QA Engineer Join the Access Family and see how we make software ideas become a reality! Our core value of ‘Love Work, Love Life, Be You’ has been central to our success and so we’re looking for people to join us who share our passion for making things better every day and help us continue to grow. We are the number one UK headquartered software provider in the UK and are forecasted to grow to a global population of over 12,000 employees by 2026. What are we all about? At Access we love software and how technology never stays the same. It's this obsession that drives us to work closely across sectors to understand the business needs of our customers - from professional services to manufacturing to not for profits and more. We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive. Our recruitment and onboarding software delivers a seamless, no-nonsense experience that gets candidates in the door faster. Fully compliant and designed to cut through the red tape, it ensures every new employee’s journey starts on the right foot. About you: Must Have: •Extensive QA Expertise: You bring significant experience in both manual and automated testing, with strong focus on best practices, tooling and frameworks. •Leadership & Mentoring: You have experience guiding and mentoring junior QA team members, and can lead testing efforts from discovery to completion. •You are proactive in your testing approach, always looking to identify risks early and seeking out opportunities to increase test coverage •You are collaborative, pragmatic, positive, assertive, commercially aware and driven to continuous learning/improvement. •You demonstrate great communication skills and are able to communicate with, and advise stakeholders in various departments at various levels, making recommendations based on risk, commercial factors, Quality approach and strategic objectives. •You show a great understanding of best practice, including why QA is necessary, objectives, cost of defects, principles of testing, software development models, testing levels & types. •You actively promote and show ownership of Quality centred activities. Day to Day, you will: •Own the Testing Strategy. Define and refine the overall QA strategy for projects, ensuring alignment with business goals and product roadmaps. •Provide technical leadership in testing approaches, guiding the wider team on best practices and risk-based testing. Design and develop testing to meet agreed acceptance criteria and stories using a range of techniques and technologies including: •Automation testing for both API and UI using tools such as Karate and Playwright. Mobile automation using Appium and BrowserStack •Write and maintain test scripts to ensure maximum coverage, scalability and reliability in a CI/CD environment. Actively contribute to requirements discussions and requirements analysis, and take responsibility for understanding scope, risk and complexity of changes. •Where appropriate, write, develop and maintain automated Test Scripts within existing Automation Frameworks to help ensure maximum coverage, quality and scalability across products. Demonstrate understanding of automation design principles, best practices, coverage, and strategy applicable of product(s). •Contribute to the development of QA processes and improvements for their projects within a fast moving, agile environment. Advise and guide all quality stakeholders on the QA approach the wider team should take, to deliver quality deliverables. •Follow, and help peers to follow, the agreed QA process and approach for both manual and automated testing, in order to align with the test & business strategy. Ensure manual testing is designed and executed to a high standard, taking an approach suitable to an agile, fast-paced environment, according to the product teams’ definitions of done. Execute CI/CD pipelines, integrating automated tests into the build process to ensure continuous feedback on product quality. •Report to the Team Lead on progress and areas of risk, including metrics where requested. •Work in accordance with the company’s policies and procedures. Skills, knowledge, experience (Essential/Must Have): •Proven Senior Experience in a fast-paced, Agile environment, taking full ownership of QA deliverables. Deep knowledge of test automation (Karate, Playwright, Appium) and integration into modern CI/CD pipelines. •Proficiency in API testing (Karate, Postman, etc.) and UI testing at scale. A proactive approach to risk identification and risk-based testing. •Good understanding of test approaches and techniques, including non-functional testing. Practical experience with API testing (e.g. Karate, Postman) and UI testing (e.g. Playwright) •Mobile automation experience using Appium and BrowserStack. Exposure to performance/load testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling. •Azure DevOps expertise (Test Plans, pipelines, Git, etc) or equivalent CI/CD platforms. Experience of taking end-to-end ownership of quality deliverables. Experience in assisting in the development of test processes and improvements. •Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. Understanding for testing best practices for SaaS and web-based products. •Experience using Git or other source control systems. Ability to adapt quickly, learn new tools and continuously improve the QA processes. ISTQB/ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing What does Access offer you? We are a growing software company, and we deliver on what we say we do! We take the development of our people very seriously! We will work with you to carve out your success plan and an opportunity to accelerate your career and make a real difference. •Healthy, friendly, and inclusive culture •Work - life balance •Hybrid/Remote working •Flexible working hours •Competitive salary package •Great Holiday Package (starting from 25) •Charity day – day off paid by the company for volunteering activities •Private Healthcare & Life Insurance •Sport Allowance •Meal tickets •Referral Bonus •Christmas Bonus •Big Break – all-inclusive holiday paid by the company Other benefits At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work, Love Life and Be you. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t match perfectly, we’d still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for. We love the fact that we’re all different. We believe by having more diverse perspectives at work improves how we run our business, helps us to better support our customers, and when you think about it, it’s just more fun! What’s holding you back? Come and be part of our Amazing Access Family! Love Work. Love Life. Be You.