Engagement: 3-month rolling contract Start: Target start early October Location: North West, hybrid (preferred on-site with client teams as needed) IR35: Outside of IR35 A project services company are expanding their Associate Testing Team with high quality QA Testers in preparation for project work commencing in October. About the Programme You’ll join a Transition & Transformation programme migrating systems and data across a financial services landscape (mortgages, savings, core banking and digital/mobile). You’ll work day-to-day with our delivery team and our clients SMEs to plan, execute and assure end-to-end testing across applications, integrations and data pipelines. What You’ll Do * Execute E2E testing: Author and run functional, system, SIT, UAT support and regression suites across web, mobile (iOS/Android), and back-office systems. * Defect management: Triage, track and report defects (Jira/Azure DevOps), drive resolution with development and SME teams. * Data migration testing: Validate mappings, perform sample-based and full reconciliations, prove data quality and completeness before/after cutover * Non-functional support: Contribute to performance, reliability and basic security test activities (e.g., JMeter, OWASP awareness). * Environment & test data: Coordinate environments, seed/refresh masked datasets, maintain repeatable test data sets. * Readiness & cutover: Support go/no-go criteria, warranty/hypercare defect burn-down, and test completion reporting with clear MI. * Collaboration: Partner with client SMEs (mortgages, savings, core banking, digital) and delivery leads; communicate status, risks and mitigations. Essential Experience * Financial services QA: 5 years in QA/Test with recent UK financial services projects. * Domain coverage: Hands-on testing across mortgages, savings, core banking and digital/mobile customer journeys. * End-to-end test delivery: Demonstrable ownership of E2E test cycles in complex change or migration programmes. * Defect leadership: Strong triage, prioritisation and stakeholder management; confident driving root-cause and fixes. * Tools: Jira or Azure DevOps (Boards/Test Plans), Confluence, Postman/SoapUI, Git-based repos for test assets. * Data & SQL: Competent SQL for validation/reconciliation; comfort with CSV extracts, views and basic ETL results checking. * Mobile & web: Cross-browser/device testing; accessibility and usability awareness. * Reporting: Clear, concise test progress/quality reporting and RAID management. Desirable (Nice to Have) * Certifications: ISTQB Foundation/Advanced, Agile testing credentials. Response Times * You will be contacted by our client representative by Monday 8th September