Overview

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.