Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid (3 days per week onsite)
Job Title: Quality Assurance Analyst 1
About The Role
Make your mark at one of the biggest names in payments.
We are looking for a Quality Assurance Analyst 1 to join our Cambridge‑based delivery teams, working on one of the highest‑volume global payment platforms in the world. Our platform processes millions of transactions daily, with a strong emphasis on robustness, security, scalability, and quality engineering excellence.
You will be part of a cross‑functional agile team consisting of developers, QA analysts, product owners, and a scrum master. Each team owns its backlog end‑to‑end, from discovery through delivery and post‑live support, operating within Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe frameworks as appropriate.
What You Will Be Doing
* Contribute to the design and planning of test plans and test strategies for projects and applications
* Support test planning activities for agile deliveries, working within Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe teams
* Analyse requirements and user stories to understand risk and derive effective manual and automated test coverage
* Execute testing thoroughly to assure software quality, including test case execution, exploratory testing, and automated test execution
* Analyse and report on quality risks based on manual and automation results, producing defect reports and test completion reports
* Contribute to release support activities
* Create automated tests to progress automation work items and enhance the existing test suite (e.g. using Selenium)
* Support and maintain the test automation framework, contributing to new features, existing functionality, and bug fixes
* Collaborate closely with developers, product owners, and other stakeholders to resolve issues in a timely manner, keeping progress and risks visible
* Actively contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, recommending quality and process improvements where appropriate
What You Will Need
* Practical experience working in a Quality Assurance or Test Automation role, supporting automated and manual testing activities
* Curiosity – you ask the right questions, listening and learning to get better every day
* Familiarity with working in an agile development environment (Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe), ideally within complex systems
* Hands‑on experience with test automation, including creating and maintaining automated tests (e.g. using Selenium WebDriver)
* A solid understanding of software testing principles, including test planning, estimation, prioritisation, and risk‑based testing
* Exposure to agile testing practices such as BDD, TDD, or similar approaches
* Ability to analyse requirements and user stories, identifying risks and appropriate test coverage
* An understanding of quality management methods, tools and technologies, with a mindset focused on continuous improvement
* Strong collaboration and communication skills
* UNIX and SQL skills
* A bachelor’s in computer science, information systems, or other related discipline, or the equivalent experience
Bonus if you have
* A keen interest in AI and the ability to use AI tools in your day‑to‑day work
* Experience working in a global online business, fintech, payments, or other complex industries
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