Software Tester
Greater London, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 2 hours ago
About The Role
Reporting to the Software Development Team Lead, you'll join our IT Delivery team as a key contributor to ensuring the quality, reliability, security and compliance of our bespoke software solutions. Working closely with developers, business analysts and stakeholders, you will play a key role in building and shaping a QA function within a small but growing development team. This is an excellent opportunity to influence processes, introduce best practices and help deliver high-quality web applications in a regulated healthcare environment.
Key Responsibilities
You'll be a detail-orientedprofessional with a passion for quality and continuous improvement. You'll enjoy working collaboratively in a cross-functional team and will be confident communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. With a proactive mindset, you'll need to be comfortable taking initiative to establish processes and improve ways of working while thriving in environments where you can make a tangible impact and help shape quality standards from the ground up.
Essential Experience
At Barchester, we are driven by our values: Respect | Integrity | Passion | Empowerment | Responsibility
Reporting to the Software Development Team Lead, you'll join our IT Delivery team as a key contributor to ensuring the quality, reliability, security and compliance of our bespoke software solutions. Working closely with developers, business analysts and stakeholders, you will play a key role in building and shaping a QA function within a small but growing development team. This is an excellent opportunity to influence processes, introduce best practices and help deliver high-quality web applications in a regulated healthcare environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure software meets defined QA standards
- Design, write and implement manual and automated test cases for bespoke web applications and solutions
- Develop and maintain regression, integration and end-to-end test suites
- Perform functional, non-functional, usability and exploratory testing
- Identify, document, prioritise and track defects through to resolution
- Validate bug fixes and carry out testing ahead of releases
- Ensure testing aligns with relevant healthcare regulations and compliance requirements
- Participate in internal audits
- Work closely with developers, product managers, business analysts and subject matter experts to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria
- Communicate testing progress, risks and quality metrics to stakeholders
- Build and maintain automated testing frameworks
- Evaluate and recommend tools and approaches to improve testing efficiency
You'll be a detail-orientedprofessional with a passion for quality and continuous improvement. You'll enjoy working collaboratively in a cross-functional team and will be confident communicating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. With a proactive mindset, you'll need to be comfortable taking initiative to establish processes and improve ways of working while thriving in environments where you can make a tangible impact and help shape quality standards from the ground up.
Essential Experience
- 3+ years' experience in software QA or testing roles
- Strong understanding of software testing methodologies and best practices
- Experience designing and executing both manual and automated tests
- Ability to clearly document test cases, defects and processes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Meticulous attention to detail with a quality-first mindset
- Relevant continuing professional development certifications (Desirable)
At Barchester, we are driven by our values: Respect | Integrity | Passion | Empowerment | Responsibility
