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Software Quality Assurance Engineer - Taunton
£38,000 - 45,000
Cardstream Limited
Heron Gate, Taunton
£38,000 - 45,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience in a Quality Assurance or Software Testing role within a software delivery environment.
- An understanding of JavaScript and how it applies to test automation.
- Working knowledge of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) and writing meaningful, readable test scenarios.
- Strong test analysis, preparation, and execution skills across the full testing lifecycle.
- Ability to break down requirements to user-story level and identify edge cases and risk areas.
- A pragmatic, detail-driven mindset with the ability to balance quality with delivery.
- Ability to work within existing processes while constructively challenging and improving them.
- Desirable: Experience in FinTech, Payments, or other regulated environments.
- Desirable: Understanding of PHP or similar development language.
- Desirable: Hands-on experience with test automation tools such as Cypress, Selenium, or similar frameworks.
- Desirable: Awareness of PCI compliance and security-focused testing principles.
- Desirable: An industry-recognised testing qualification (such as ISTQB).
Responsibilities
- Acting as the final quality checkpoint between test environments and live production systems, with a clear focus on risk, stability, and customer impact.
- Identifying issues early in the delivery lifecycle, clearly communicating risks, and proposing pragmatic mitigation strategies to keep releases on track.
- Working closely with internal teams and external partners to translate requirements into scalable, maintainable test strategies and suites.
- Participating in feature design and requirements reviews to ensure solutions are testable, observable, and robust.
- Taking ownership of end-to-end product quality, including defect lifecycle management, reporting, prioritisation, and escalation of critical issues.
- Designing, executing, and maintaining a blend of automated and manual tests, including regression testing across frequent release cycles.
- Developing and maintaining test automation frameworks to improve coverage, confidence, and delivery speed.
- Collaborating with software engineers and product managers to support root cause analysis, debugging, and continuous improvement.
- Helping define, evolve, and embed QA best practices across teams, tools, and processes.
Description
At Cardstream, we are a market-leading fintech, providing secure, scalable payment technology and infrastructure to partners across the payments ecosystem. We enable businesses to build, scale, and operate sophisticated payment propositions with confidence. We offer a collaborative engineering culture where quality is valued and supported, along with a competitive salary and benefits package. This role offers ongoing learning and development opportunities, allowing you to deepen your expertise in payments and FinTech. This is a full-time, permanent position located in Taunton, with a hybrid work model.
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