QA engineer (auto) in housing repairs systems

We are seeking a hands-on QA Automation Engineer to support a housing association’s in-flight reactive repairs system implementation. The project involves six prime contractors and up to 20 suppliers, connecting through a combination of APIs and a portal. You will help ensure integrations work correctly and information flows accurately from end to end, including financial transactions and contractor and supplier payments.

• Build and maintain automated API, integration and regression tests, contributing to the project’s test frameworks.
• Contribute to test plans and prepare structured test cases and test data, with clear expected results and traceability to requirements.
• Validate end-to-end journeys across the repairs system, contractor and supplier interfaces, and associated financial processes.
• Test successful journeys, failure paths and exception handling across API and portal connections.
• Use SQL to validate data, investigate discrepancies and support defect analysis.
• Execute functional tests and contribute to appropriate non-functional testing, including performance and resilience.
• Support user acceptance testing and implementation rehearsals, helping business users prepare scenarios, capture results and report issues.
• Review supplier test cases, scripts and results with the QA lead, identifying gaps in coverage or evidence.
• Log and track defects through resolution, collaborate on investigation, retest fixes and carry out regression testing.
• Report test progress, outcomes and outstanding risks clearly, providing evidence to support release and go-live decisions.
• Identify practical opportunities to improve automation, test efficiency and quality.
• Work within an Azure DevOps environment and collaborate with internal technical teams, business analysts, project managers, external vendors and the professional services implementation team.

• Proven hands-on QA experience, including testing SaaS or package-based business applications.
• Practical experience writing and maintaining automated tests and contributing to test frameworks.
• Strong API and integration testing skills across connected systems.
• Confident SQL skills for data validation and investigation.
• A sound understanding of functional, integration, regression, user acceptance and performance testing.
• Experience preparing test cases and test data, analysing results and producing reliable test evidence.
• Experience working collaboratively with third-party suppliers and internal delivery teams.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps or comparable test management tools.
• Strong organisational and communication skills, with the ability to manage several testing activities, explain risks clearly and challenge quality issues constructively.
• A dependable, inclusive approach and the ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Please highlight the languages, tools and frameworks you have used and your ability to adapt to an existing environment.
• This is an individual contributor role focused on hands-on testing and automation, working closely with the QA Engineering Lead.
• Будет плюсом: Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365, NEC Housing or similar enterprise platforms; A professional testing or quality assurance qualification, such as ISTQB; Experience in housing, reactive repairs or comparable service delivery systems would be desirable; Experience testing financial interfaces, reconciliation or contractor and supplier payments would also be valuable

• Contract: Six months
• Start date: 12 October 2026
• Rate: Circa £400 per day, to be confirmed
• IR35 status: Expected to be outside IR35, subject to confirmation
• Working pattern: Tuesdays and Thursdays in the office, with three days working from home and flexibility for business needs