Senior Test Engineer
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 March 2026
LOCATION
Manchester
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Software Development
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion
SKILLS
Automation
Agile methodologies
API testing
UI testing
Test automation
Scrum
Kanban
E-commerce
FULL DESCRIPTION
Due to growth, we're now recruiting for a Senior Test Engineer to join our Investcentre team and help enhance our award-winning platform.
What does the job involve?
- Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and working in a high-performance engineering team.
- Work with the team to design and deliver high quality products.
- At [Employer hidden — view at passion-project.co.uk] we pair programme, and in most cases will pair with other members of the team.
What you'll have
- Understand and interpret business, functional, and technical requirements.
- Lead conversations in stand-up, refinement, and retrospective sessions.
- Automation - fix, maintain, and write new automation tests for our websites and API’s.
- Lead others in using various testing tools to meet test requirements.
- Experienced and confident enough to have input with developers and their approach to development level testing.
- Mentor junior test engineers. Pairing with them via ongoing project work to upskill.
- Have input into how solutions are developed and delivered using knowledge. and expertise to help deliver the best possible outcome for the customer
- Carry out testing across a wide range of processes and systems - including UI, API, back office (workflow) processes, 3rd party systems and integrations between all these systems including end to end testing.
- Execute test scripts and record results using software testing tools
- Work alongside Technical Leads and Testers from Project inception to create and implement appropriate test automation approach to complement the manual testing and overall project deliveries.
- Identify opportunities for testing improvement in existing or new functionality, explore suitable testing solutions, and demo POC where required.
- You proactively seek Development, Design, Architecture, or specialised input when needed, and you know when it’s needed.
- Support User Acceptance Testing and release to Production.
- Agile / Scrum / Kanban.
- Strong communication skills, written and verbal.
- Very motivated with high levels of drive and enthusiasm.
- E-commerce and/or financial services experience.
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