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
* 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
About You
You will be a detail‑oriented professional with a passion for quality and continuous improvement. You will 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 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)
Why Join Barchester
At Barchester, we are driven by our values: Respect | Integrity | Passion | Empowerment | Responsibility
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